Research Interests
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Shallow Parsing and Speech processing
Language of interest: Hindi
Other interests
Indian Language Technology (English, Hindi), Syntactic-Semantic Annotation, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Localization
Research & Work Experiences
1. Senior Linguist on the Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) project undertaken by a collaboration of leading universities in India (D.I.T. funded, Govt. of India). Job duties included team/project management, data curation, POS tagging, annotation and evaluation of data.
2. Freelance consultant with various industry leaders (Appen, Microsoft) for annotation services, machine translation.
Education
1. Ph. D. Thesis Title: Prosody Labelling in Hindi TTS. Ongoing.
2. M.Phil. Dissertation Title: Intra phrasal agreement within the Hindi noun phrase: A Grammar Checker Approach JNU, New Delhi, in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics)
4. M.A. English and Foreign Languages University (formerly CIEFL), Hyderabad, in Linguistics
5. B.A. St. Xavier's College (University of Calcutta), in English (Hons.)
National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (NET) of the UGC
Others
Computer Skills / Software Familiarity:
OS: Microsoft Windows (XP to 7), Linux (version SUSE 10.1)
Software Packages: Comfortable working with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access). Have working knowledge of Praat, Toolbox, Audacity sound editing software, EditPlus text editor (version 3.10)
Programming Language: Basic knowledge of Python, Java
Languages
Hindi (Native), Bengali, English
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