Prof Vasudeva Varma, Prof Vikram Pudi and their students presented the following papers at the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR-2018, during 26 – 29 March, in Grenoble, France:

• Pinkesh Badjatiya, Litton J Kurisinkel, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma – Attention-based Neural Text Segmentation
• Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani and Girish Keshav Palshikar – Co-training for Extraction of Adverse Drug Reaction Mentions from Tweets
• Raksha Jalan, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma – Medical Forum Question Classification Using Deep Learning
• Shashank Gupta, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Sachin Pawar, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Girish Keshav Palshikar – Multi-Task Learning for Extraction of Adverse Drug Reaction Mentions from Tweets
• Kartik Gupta, Noveen Sachdeva and Vikram Pudi – Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation