Ritesh Kumar

Research Scholar
Centre for Linguistics
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067 (INDIA)
Mob: +91-9013754300
e-mail: riteshkrjnu@gmail.com , ritesh78_llh@student.jnu.ac.in
Blog: My Stories


Educational Qualifications

B.A. (2006):        English (Hons.),Mathematics and Statistics Patna College, Patna
M.A. (2008):        Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ph.D. (Pursuing):    "Politeness in Hindi Online Texts: Pragmatic and Computational Aspects" from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Research Interest : Computational Linguistics and Pragmatics, Computational Resources for lesser-known languages of India, Semantics, Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Corpus Linguistics, Basic Linguistic Theory, Language Documentation.

Research Papers
  1. Register and politeness in Hindi\Urdu. To be presented at Sixth International Symposium on Politeness: Corpus Approaches, Ankara, Turkey, July 11-13, 2011.
  2. A register-based annotation scheme for CO3H. To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, Sogndal, Norway, May 25-27, 2011.
  3. A Politeness Recognition Tool for Hindi. In Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, March 28- April 1, 2011.
  4. Making Machine Translations Polite: The problematic Speech Acts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages, Punjabi University, Patiala, March 9-11, 2011.
  5. Corpus of Computer-mediated Communication in Hindi (CO3H). Presented at the 5th International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-5), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, February 21-23, 2011.
  6. Comments in blogs and web portals: A study in Politeness. Presented at 29th South Asian Languages Roundtable Analysis (SALA 29), CIIL, Mysore, January 6-8, 2011.
  7. Deixis in Galo. In Proceedings of the 32nd All-India Conference of Linguists (32 AICL), University of Lucknow, Lucknow, December 21-23, 2010.
  8. Translating Politeness Across Cultures: Case of Hindi and English (co-authored with Girish Nath Jha). In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Inter-Cultural Collaboration (ICIC-2010), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, August 18-20, 2010.
  9. Magahi Verb Analyser and Generator (co-authored with Girish Nath Jha) . Presented at the Knowledge Sharing Event: Morphological Analysers and Generators, CIIL, Mysore, March 22-23, 2010. (Tool is available here ).
  10. An Overview of Politeness Strategies in Hindi. Presented at the 4th International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-4), University of Mumbai, Mumbai, February 20-22, 2010.
  11. Documenting Paite (co-authored with Bornini Lahiri and Atanu Saha). Presented at the 5th International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS-5), Guwahati University, Guwahati, February 12-14, 2010.
  12. Agreement in Magahi, Hindi and Bangla: A comparative study. Presented at the 9th International Conference on South Asian Languages, Punjabi University, Patiala, January 7-9, 2010.
  13. Honorification in Eatern Indo-Aryan Languages. Presented at the 31st All-India Conference of Linguists (31 AICL), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, December 15-17, 2010.
  14. Reduplicative classifier: a typological survey (co-authored with Bornini Lahiri and Atanu Saha) . Presented at the 31st All-India Conference of Linguists (31 AICL), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, December 15-17, 2010.
  15. The Biolinguistic Diversity Index of India. To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 18-20, 2009.
  16. The Semantics of classifiers in some Indian Languages (co-authored with Bornini Lahiri, Atanu Saha and Sudhanshu Shekhar). To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 18-20, 2009.
  17. The God of Small Things: The Subaltern Speaks. Presented at UGC National Seminar on New Literatures in English, B.N. College, Patna February 19-20, 2006.


Reseacrh/Teaching Experience
  • Working as Senior Linguist in Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI), funded by DIT, Govt. of India.
  • Worked as Research and Technical Assistant in a major documentation project titled "Vanishing Voices of Great Anadamanese (VOGA)", funded of School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London.
  • Worked as a Research Scholar in a summer project on Semantics of Hindi Genitives (for developing Hindi Semnatic Net) at IIIT, Hyderabad.
  • Taught 'Language in Society' to B.A. students in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.


    • Fellowships
  • Junior Research Fellowship, given by University Grants Commission, India.
  • Nixi Fellowship, given by the Govt. of India, for attending 20th World Wide Web Conference, 2011.


    • Other Activities
  • Core group member of the organising committe of the International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI).
  • Volunteer at the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (4i-SCLS) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during December 10-12, 2010.
  • Student volunteer at the 3rd ACM International Conference on Inter-CUltural Collaboration (ICIC-2010) held at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark during August 18-20, 2010.
  • Member of the editorial committee of the Proceedings of the 3rd International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during February 18-20, 2009.
  • Co-organiser of the 3rd International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during February 18-20, 2009.