Avinesh Polisetty

Senior Research Scientist at Apple working on Siri’s Natural Language Understanding. PhD in NLP and ML from TU Darmstadt, Germany with research in summarization, recommendation, and personalization. MS and B.Tech from IIIT Hyderabad, India.

Previously worked at IBM Watson, Lexical Computing Ltd., and interned at RMIT Search Lab and Apple.

When I’m not at work, I write

articles for my newsletter - The Avi AI Brief
my travel experiences blog

I also work on both professional and personal projects.

Other than writing I work through my I’m Possible List. I’ve backpacked across Europe, done a solo bike trip across India, tried paragliding, skiing, scuba diving, and completed a Vipassana meditation course.

latest posts

Oct 02, 2016	Dera baba nanak paidal yatra
May 08, 2016	Punjab: The State of love
Jan 16, 2016	Ludhiana: Comfort zone (Delhi) to the land of love

selected publications

COLING

A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance-Detection Task

Andreas Hanselowski, Avinesh P.V.S., Benjamin Schiller, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Aug 2018

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{hanselowski2018coling,
  title = {A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance-Detection Task},
  author = {Hanselowski, Andreas and P.V.S., Avinesh and Schiller, Benjamin and Caspelherr, Felix and Chaudhuri, Debanjan and Meyer, Christian M. and Gurevych, Iryna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)},
  pages = {1859--1874},
  year = {2018},
  address = {Santa Fe, New Mexico},
  month = aug,
}

ACL

Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback

Avinesh P.V.S. and Christian M. Meyer

In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Aug 2017

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{pvs2017acl,
  title = {Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback},
  author = {P.V.S., Avinesh and Meyer, Christian M.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  pages = {1353--1363},
  year = {2017},
  address = {Vancouver, Canada},
  month = aug,
}

SPSAL

Part Of Speech Tagging Using Conditional Random Fields and Transformation Based Learning

Avinesh P.V.S. and Karthik Gali

In Proceedings of the Shallow Parsing for South Asian Languages (SPSAL) Workshop, held at IJCAI-07, Jan 2007

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{pvs2007spsal,
  title = {Part Of Speech Tagging Using Conditional Random Fields and Transformation Based Learning},
  author = {P.V.S., Avinesh and Gali, Karthik},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Shallow Parsing for South Asian Languages (SPSAL) Workshop, held at IJCAI-07},
  pages = {21--24},
  year = {2007},
  month = jan,
}