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2022 7th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES)
TENCON 2021 - 2021 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON)
The emojis or emoticons are tiny graphics, generally used during texting through social media pla... more The emojis or emoticons are tiny graphics, generally used during texting through social media platforms. These express a combination of visuals and words simultaneously and provide a different method of interactions. Even after being used quite a significant number of times on social media, their meanings and importance haven't received enough focus and attention via the perspective of Natural Language Processing. In the described project, we perform the analysis of the relationship between emojis and English words and predict the respective emojis for some given text or tweet messages. We have performed multiple methods for word embedding, and our model trained on the Multinomial Naive Bayes and LSTMs. As per the conclusion of our project, the model has shown significant appropriate predictions of emojis on the tweets.
History and Theory, 2017
This essay examines the two sites of historicity, namely history-writing and historical agency, a... more This essay examines the two sites of historicity, namely history-writing and historical agency, and their interrelationship. I borrow the idea of "sites of historicity" from historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995). For the purpose of analyzing how the relationship between the two sites changes with time and context, using Trouillot's theoretical lens, I examine the philosophies of history of Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel. By citing instances from these two philosophers, I claim that with the rise of nineteenth-century colonialism, the two sites of historicity became discursively related in a specific way, whereby historical agency came to be predicated on history-writing. Hence, in contrast to Kant's work, in Hegel's philosophy of history the relationship between the two sites of historicity acquired a decidedly colonialist form. As a result of this predication of historical agency on history-writing, the alleged lack of historiography of certain cultures began to be considered as a token of their lack of political ability. The essay ends with the suggestion that the postcolonial thinkers and commentators who deal with historiography should challenge the foregoing predication, as it continues to inform contemporary thought concerning historiography.
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017
ABSTRACT Mimesis is a key theme in scholarly discussions of conventions of representation. The cr... more ABSTRACT Mimesis is a key theme in scholarly discussions of conventions of representation. The crucial role mimesis plays in behaviour formation has been noted by European theorists such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Reinhart Koselleck. However, in post-colonial discussions of historiography, mimesis rarely appears as a concept deserving of sustained scholarly attention. Addressing this lacuna, I discuss here mimeticist aspects of anti-colonial historiography. For this purpose, I analyse the historiographical agenda of the Hindu nationalist author, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94). I demonstrate that as Chattopadhyay attempted to promote a mimetic relationship with the pre-colonial past, he also undermined, at times, the nineteenth-century principles of factual history.
2022 7th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES)
TENCON 2021 - 2021 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON)
The emojis or emoticons are tiny graphics, generally used during texting through social media pla... more The emojis or emoticons are tiny graphics, generally used during texting through social media platforms. These express a combination of visuals and words simultaneously and provide a different method of interactions. Even after being used quite a significant number of times on social media, their meanings and importance haven't received enough focus and attention via the perspective of Natural Language Processing. In the described project, we perform the analysis of the relationship between emojis and English words and predict the respective emojis for some given text or tweet messages. We have performed multiple methods for word embedding, and our model trained on the Multinomial Naive Bayes and LSTMs. As per the conclusion of our project, the model has shown significant appropriate predictions of emojis on the tweets.
History and Theory, 2017
This essay examines the two sites of historicity, namely history-writing and historical agency, a... more This essay examines the two sites of historicity, namely history-writing and historical agency, and their interrelationship. I borrow the idea of "sites of historicity" from historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995). For the purpose of analyzing how the relationship between the two sites changes with time and context, using Trouillot's theoretical lens, I examine the philosophies of history of Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel. By citing instances from these two philosophers, I claim that with the rise of nineteenth-century colonialism, the two sites of historicity became discursively related in a specific way, whereby historical agency came to be predicated on history-writing. Hence, in contrast to Kant's work, in Hegel's philosophy of history the relationship between the two sites of historicity acquired a decidedly colonialist form. As a result of this predication of historical agency on history-writing, the alleged lack of historiography of certain cultures began to be considered as a token of their lack of political ability. The essay ends with the suggestion that the postcolonial thinkers and commentators who deal with historiography should challenge the foregoing predication, as it continues to inform contemporary thought concerning historiography.
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017
ABSTRACT Mimesis is a key theme in scholarly discussions of conventions of representation. The cr... more ABSTRACT Mimesis is a key theme in scholarly discussions of conventions of representation. The crucial role mimesis plays in behaviour formation has been noted by European theorists such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Reinhart Koselleck. However, in post-colonial discussions of historiography, mimesis rarely appears as a concept deserving of sustained scholarly attention. Addressing this lacuna, I discuss here mimeticist aspects of anti-colonial historiography. For this purpose, I analyse the historiographical agenda of the Hindu nationalist author, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94). I demonstrate that as Chattopadhyay attempted to promote a mimetic relationship with the pre-colonial past, he also undermined, at times, the nineteenth-century principles of factual history.