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Time of India
4 days ago
- Science
- Time of India
AI datasets by IIT-Bombay to simplify Indian texts, help in AI research
AI datasets by IIT-Bombay to simplify Indian texts, help in AI research (ANI) MUMBAI: For years, research in Indian knowledge systems, often available in Indian languages such as Sanskrit, was challenging for researchers. However, a data curation exercise carried out by the premier IIT-Bombay, as part of its contribution to the central govt's AIKosh portal, has simplified it to some extent by digitising 30 different textbooks. A dataset containing around 2.18 lakh sentences with 1.5 million words from these textbooks, covering diverse topics such as astronomy, medicine, and mathematics, with some even as old as 18 centuries, is now available on the govt portal. AIKosh, launched in March, is a source for datasets, models, toolkits, and more from diverse sources that aim to help AI-based innovation and research. IIT-Bombay, one of the leading contributors to the AIKosh platform, along with BharatGen, a consortium of seven institutes again led by IIT-Bombay, has contributed 37 diverse models and datasets on the portal so far. IIT-Bombay alone launched around 16 culturally significant datasets on the platform to contribute to the country's AI mission. BharatGen, funded through a section 8 company formed by the Department of Science and Technology with IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Madras, IIT-Hyderabad, IIT-Mandi, IIM-Indore, and IIIT-Hyderabad as partners, launched 21 models on the portal. 'We are not only researching Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative models for AI that are effective and data and compute efficient, but also building sovereign models for India from the ground up. We are creating datasets for training these models and fine-tuning them for downstream tasks such as conversation and question-answering, while creating benchmarking datasets towards calibrating the performance of these models,' said Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan from IIT-Bombay, who is spearheading the project. The team has not only put out datasets relevant to the Indian knowledge systems but also others that can help in audio-visual learning, such as tutorials capturing practical skills like waste-to-toy creation or organic farming. There is also one on Sanskrit translation for contemporary prose, a math word problems dataset in Hindi and English which will train the AI in mathematical reasoning, and culturally-grounded multi-lingual question-answering datasets, including questions and answers from historian Dharampal's books, among others. One of the datasets also enables the AI to answer questions about images using external knowledge, and another interesting one is on recognising text in videos with camera movements. Most of these models are trained from scratch, not just fine-tuned, said Prof Ramakrishnan. The models also uniquely balance Indian data alongside English data, ensuring relevance to our country, he said. 'We are creating benchmarks for the AI ecosystem in the country, but these can be pulled out by researchers, enterprisers, companies, or even academia and developed further,' he added.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Decades of Illegal Medical Practices Uncovered in Haryana Hospital
HISAR: Authorities in Hisar have uncovered a case of alleged medical malpractice after raiding a hospital in Haryana's Hisar district that had been operating illegally for over two decades. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Officials say Jangra Hospital in Balsamand village was run by , a local resident with no formal medical qualifications. The facility had been treating patients for 25 years without a licensed doctor on site. The raid was carried out by a joint team from the Chief Minister's Flying Squad, the Health Department, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following a complaint filed by Medical Officer Dr Naveen Bainiwal. Police have registered a case against Dharampal under Section 34 of the National Medical Commission Act, which bars unqualified individuals from practising medicine. During the raid, investigators found a woman named Kamla Devi receiving treatment. Her husband told police that Dharampal had examined his wife and taken money for the treatment. Dharampal claimed he held an 'Ayurveda Ratna' degree from Allahabad University and said that an ayurvedic doctor, Dr Kanwal Kumar Mohan, periodically visited the hospital. However, Dr Mohan later admitted to only practising Ayurveda and said he had no training in allopathic medicine. He also confirmed that Dharampal regularly administered allopathic treatments. Authorities seized medical equipment, patient records, and hospital documents during the raid. A pharmacy on the premises, operating under the name Ajay Medicine Center, was found to have a valid licence. Officials say further investigation is underway to determine the scale of the hospital's unauthorised medical operations, including the involvement of other doctors such as Dr Nidhi Mehta, who reportedly visited the facility weekly.
