In his talk at TEDxSomaiyaVidyavihar 2018, Dr. Aditya Joshi talks about two major aspects of his life: sarcasm and being openly out. While succinctly explaining how computational sarcasm works, he reflects upon the way in which the LGBTQ+ community is perceived in India, and his personal struggle against the same. Dr. Aditya Joshi is a researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP) whose Ph.D. thesis on ‘Computational Sarcasm’ has resulted in first-of- their-kind techniques to detect sarcasm in text and generate sarcastic responses. Dr. Aditya Joshi is a researcher in natural language processing (NLP), dealing primarily with sentimental analysis. His publications are based on novel aspects of NLP - drunk-texting prediction, political affiliation prediction, etc. and so is his PhD thesis on ‘Computational Sarcasm’, that has resulted in first-of- their-kind techniques to detect sarcasm in text and generate sarcastic responses. As an openly out person, he was a core team member of Saathi, the LGBT support group of IIT Bombay. In 2015, he co-created the Saathi Connect project - a multimedia anthology of 10 video interviews and 90+ written stories of LGBTQ Indians in Marathi and Hindi. Besides writing LGBTQ-themed journalistic pieces, he has co-translated a book on parents of LGBTQ people from Marathi; and directed a Marathi short film. A frequent keynote speaker at various universities and organizations, his work has been profiled in prominent news platforms such as The New York Times and MIT Technology Review. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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