Mithun Balakrishna

Mithun Balakrishna

Ph.D., Computer Science
Contact:  [firstname] dot [lastname] at utdallas dot edu
Adjunct Faculty Member, The University of Texas at Dallas
Director of Research and Engineering, Lymba Corporation
 

Teaching

The University of Texas at Dallas: Fall 2014-Present
  • Natural Language Processing (CS 6320):
  • Fall and Spring Semesters
  • Web Programming Languages (CS 6314):
  • Spring Semesters

    Expertise

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Semantics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Knowledge Extraction from Text
  • Question Answering
  • Semantic Big Data
  • Ontology/Knowledge-Base Generation
  • Speech Recognition
  • Spoken Dialog Systems
  • Publications

  • Michael A. Schwemmer, Po-Hsu Chen, Mithun Balakrishna, Amy Leibrand, Aaron Leonard, Nancy J. McMillan, Jeffrey J. Geppert. CMS Sematrix: A Tool to Aid the Development of Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs)., arXiv:1902.01918, 2019 [PDF]
  • Marta Tatu, Mithun Balakrishna, Steven Werner, Tatiana Erekhinskaya, and Dan Moldovan. A Semantic Question Answering Framework for Large Data Sets. Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW), 3(1), pp. 16-31, 2016 [PDF]
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Steven Werner, Marta Tatu, Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Dan Moldovan. KExtractor: Automatic Knowledge Extraction for Hybrid Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, 2016
  • Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Mithun Balakrishna, Marta Tatu, Steven Werner, Dan Moldovan. Personalized Medical Reading Recommendation: Deep Semantic Approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Personalization, Dallas, TX, USA, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016
  • Marta Tatu, Mithun Balakrishna, Steven Werner, Tatiana Erekhinskaya, and Dan Moldovan. Automatic Extraction of Actionable Knowledge. In Proceedings of the IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, 2016
  • Marta Tatu, Steven Werner, Mithun Balakrishna, Tatiana Erekhinskaya, and Dan Moldovan. Semantic Question Answering on Big Data. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Big Data (SBD), San Francisco, CA, USA, ACM, 2016
  • Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Mithun Balakrishna, Marta Tatu, Steven Werner, and Dan Moldovan. Knowledge Extraction for Literature Review. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Newark, NJ, USA, ACM, 2016
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan. Automatic Building of Semantically Rich Domain Models from Unstructured Data. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International FLAIRS Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, AAAI Press, 2013
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan, Marta Tatu, and Marian Olteanu. Semi-automatic Domain Ontology Creation from Text Resources. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 2010.
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Exploiting High-Level Knowledge Resources for Speech Recognition. Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr.Muller, ISBN-10: 3639122127, ISBN-13: 978-3639122121, Year: 2009
  • Mithun Balakrishna and Munirathnam Srikanth. Automatic Ontology Creation from Text for National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF). In Proceedings of Ontology for the Intelligence Community (OIC), Fairfax, VA, USA, 2008
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan, and Vincent Mo. Catalyst: A Knowledge-Driven Methodology for Spoken Language Understanding. In Proceedings of IEEE InterSpeech-ICSLP, September 2008
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan and Ellis K. Cave. N-best List Reranking using Higher Level Phonetic, Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Knowledge Sources. In the conference proceedings at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006
  • Ellis K. Cave, Mithun Balakrishna and Dan Moldovan. Efficient Grammar Generation and Tuning for Interactive Voice Response Applications. In the conference proceedings at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, 2006
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Cyril Cerovic, Dan Moldovan and Ellis K. Cave. Automatic generation of statistical language models for interactive voice response applications. In Proceedings of IEEE InterSpeech-ICSLP, September 2006.
  • Mithun Balakrishna. System and Method for Context Free Grammar Development in Directed Dialog Speech Applications., In Proceedings of SpeechTEK-Avios Technology Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2006
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan and Ellis K. Cave. Automatic Creation and Tuning of Context Free Grammars for Interactive Voice Response Systems., In Proceedings of IEEE-NLP-KE, Wuhan, China, 2005
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan and Ellis K. Cave, Higher Level Phonetic and Linguistic Knowledge to Improve ASR Accuracy and its Relevance in Interactive Voice Response Systems. In Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 2005.
  • Patents and Applications

  • Ravi Advani, Mithun Balakrishna, and Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Applied Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing Automotive Reporting System, Filing Year: 2018, Application Number: 16/033846, Publication Number: "US20200020179A1"
  • Ellis Cave, Mithun Balakrishna, and Vincent Mo, System and Method for Semantic Categorization, Issued Year: 2013, Patent Number: 8,380,511
  • Mithun Balakrishna and Ellis Cave, Automatic Generation of Statistical Language Models for Interactive Voice Response Applications, Filing Year: 2007, Application Number: 07253664.2, Publication Number: "EP1901283"
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan and Ellis Cave, System and Method for Improving the Word Error Rate of Speech Recognition Systems, Filing Year: 2005, Application Number: 11/175918
  • Mithun Balakrishna, Dan Moldovan and Ellis Cave, System and Method for Automatic Tuning of Context-Free Grammars, Filing Year: 2005, Application Number: 11/175919
  • Speaker Panels

  • Natural Language Question-Answering on Heterogenous Data Resources, Semantic Technology Conference, June 2013
  • Intuitive Semantic Analysis of Unstructured Natural Language Data Using Visualization, Semantic Technology Conference, June 2013
  • Spoken Language Understanding using Semantic Knowledge Automatically Extracted from Domain Data Resources, SpeechTEK Conference, August 2011
  • Customizable Spoken Dialog Question Answering For Mobile Find, Mobile Voice Conference, April 2010
  • Program/Review Committee (Select)

  • Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM)
  • 2016
  • Open Journal of Semantic Web
  • 2016-2020
  • Open Journal of Big Data
  • 2016-2020
  • Workshop on Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles (SemBEaR)
  • 2017-2018
  • ACM SIGMOD International Workshop on Semantic Big Data (SIGMOD SBD)
  • 2017-2020
  • International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB)
  • 2017-2020
  • International Workshop on Web Data Processing & Reasoning (WDPAR)
  • 2018
  • Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • 2018-2020
  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMPNLP)
  • 2018-2019
  • Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering (DATAK) Journal
  • 2019
  • IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC)
  • 2019-2020
  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SIAM SDM)
  • 2020
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • 2020