WII_workshop

Title of the Workshop

• AI-Assisted Literature Review

Date

• 25 APRIL, 2025

Location

• Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Link to Colab Notebooks for the demonstration

• Review of Literature part 1

• Review of Literature part 2

• Review of Literature part 3

Link to the presentations

• ALR Demo Session 1
• NER Demo Session 2

Program Schedule

Session 1 : Fundamentals of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Orientation & Ice Break
• Intro to Python, Google Colab & SemanticClimate
• The Evolution of AI and NLP
• Basic Concepts of Deep Learning and Transformer Models
• Outline of our ongoing work in Biodiversity Informatics

Session 2 : Workspace Demo: AI over NLP using our Semantic Toolkit

• Demo Session!
• Demo of semantic materials and Tools
• Setting up Workspace.
• Use of HuggingFace Modules in AI for Research
• Creating Challenges ; Performing NLP using AI

Session 3 : Workshop Demo : Named Entity Retrieval

• Extracting location, species mentioned in the literatures

Closure

• Q&A; Closing Remarks and Feedback

Course Instructors and organizers:

• Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India
• Dr. Gautam Talukdar, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

Co-instructors:

• Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager, semanticClimate
• Ms. Priti, Ph.D. Student, NIPGR, New Delhi
• Ms. Shabnam Barbhuiya, Ms. Moobashara Jawed and Mr. Anudev, Interns (National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India)
• Ms. Anindita Debnath, WII, Dehradun, India
• Dr. Avilekh Naryal, WII, Dehradun, India
• Mrs. Sneha Pandey, WII, Dehradun, India