Srishti Singh
singhsriss@gmail.com
Research Interest
  • Major areas of interest: Natural Language Processing, Syntactic Annotation, Machine Translation, Language Technology and Resources Creation.

  • Other Research interests: Language Documentation, speech processing, syntax and Psycholingusitics

    • Qualifications
  • Ph.D(Linguistics)- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (pursuing)
  • M.Phil(Linguistics)- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (2015)
  • M.A (Linguistics)- Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. (2013)
  • B.A. (Eng. Hons.)- Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. (2011)

    • Languages Known:
  • English (Fluent)
  • Hindi (Fluent)
  • Bhojpuri (intermediate)
  • Spanish (Beginner)

    • Achievements
  • Awarded Protecting Human Research Participant (PHRP) from The National Institute of Health (NIH) office and Extramural Research on 25th November, 2014 (Certificate no. 1625631).
  • UGC NET qualified for JUNE 2013 examination (e-certificate no. 131022982).
  • Awarded with B.H.U medal for securing 1st position in M.A. Linguistics, 2013 examination.

    • Computer Proficiency:
  • Operating systems : Linux, WINDOWS - XP, Vista, 7,8
  • Programming languages : C++, JAVA
  • Technical skills : MS Office, MS Excel, Notepad (++), Corel
  • Familiar tools : Audacity, Toolbox, PRAAT

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    Experience and Research
    • Professional
    • Worked as Speech annotator (part-time) at EZ Data Intelligence consultancy for research in smart text processors fo,r medical domain (Oct 2013- Nov 2016).
    • Worked as Linguist at DIETY sponsored Indian Language Corpora Initiative project (ILCI), Phase-2 (December 2014-Novemcer 2016).
    • Academic
    • Submitted Maters in Philosophy (M.Phil) Dissertation entitled as “Challenges in Automatic POS Tagging of Indian Languages -A Comparative Study of Hindi and Bhojpuri” (2015).
    • Taught B.A Optional course on Contrastive Linguistics at Centre for linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Winter semester 2016)
    • Taught B.A Optional courses on Introduction to Linguistics at Centre for linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Monsoon semester 2014 & 2015).
    • M.A. Dissertation work entitled as A Priliminary Analysis On Google Translate (2013).

    Publications:
    • “Valance Annotaion of Hindi on TypeCraft” (Srishti Singh). In proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE-3), Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016. (ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1)
    • “A Hybrid Chunker of Hindi and Indian English” (Atul Ojha, Srishti Singh, Pitambar Behera and Girish Nath Jha). In proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE-3), Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016. (ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1)
    • “Training and Evaluation of POS Tagger in Indo-Aryan Languages: A Case of Hindi, Odia and Bhojpuri” (Atul Ojha, Pitambar Behera and Srishti Singh). In Proceedings of 7th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technology as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2015). (ISBN 978-83-932640-8-7)
    • “Statistical tagger for Bhojpuri: Employing Support Vector Machine” (Srishti Singh and Girish Nath Jha). In Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2015). ( ISBN 978-1-4799-8791-7)
    • “Indian languages on the TypeCraft platform – the case of Hindi and Odia” (Girish Nath Jha, Lars Hellan, Dorothee Beermann, Srishti Singh, Pitambar Behera and Esha Banerjee). In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE-2), Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. (ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4)
    • “Annotating Bhojpuri Corpus Using BIS Scheme” (Srishti Singh and Esha Banerjee) in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Indian Languages Data: Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-2), Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014. (ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4)

    Presentations:
    • “Web Drawn Corpus for Bhojpuri” (Srishti Singh) in National Seminar on Modern perspective of NLP for Hindi & other Indian Languages at MGAHV, Wardha (17th-19th August 2016).
    • “Annotated Hindi Corpus for Cricket Domain” (Anupama Pandey & Srishti Singh) in National Seminar on Modern perspective of NLP for Hindi & other Indian Languages at MGAHV, Wardha (17th-19th August 2016).
    • “Sanskrit in Varanasi: A Struggle For Survival” in Endangered And Lesser Known Languages: Challenges And Responses (ELKL) at Lucknow University (11th – 13th October, 2012).

    Participations:
    • “22nd International Conference of Vedanta” at Jawaharlal Nehru University (27th – 30th December, 2015).
    • “Regional Symposium on Natural language Processing” at IIT BHU (21st-22nd March, 2015).
    • “The Language, Emotion and Cultural National Seminar” at IIT, Delhi (24th-25th February, 2014).
    • “National Seminar on ‘Diversity and Dialogue”. Translation among Indian Languages” organized by NBT, MHRD and IGNOU in New Delhi World Book Fare (February, 2014).
    • Volunteered “18th-Himalayan Languages Symposium” at BHU, Varanasi (10th -12th September, 2012).
    • Volunteered “SCONLI-6” at BHU, Varanasi (17th-19th February, 2012).

    Workshops:
    • A 15 days “workshop for English and Academic Writing: from Synopsis to Thesis” organized by LEC at JNU (1st - 15th May, 2015).
    • A two day “Third Workshop on Sharada Script Learning” at SCSS, JNU (12th-13th September, 2014).
    • A two day “Second Workshop on Sharada Script Learning” at SCSS, JNU (18th-19th February, 2014).
    • A two day “Workshop on Science and Technology for Sanskrit” at SCSS, JNU (10th-12th March, 2014).

    Extra Curricular Activities:
    • Participated in Mass yoga (17th to 21st June 2017) and International Yoga day (21st June 2017) at JNU, New Delhi.
    • Participated in the “Training in Self Defence Technique” sponsored by SPUWAC, Delhi Police (24 Dec 2016-10 Jan 2017) at JNU, New Delhi.
    • Two year training in Bharatnatyam (2014-2016) at Delhi Malyalee Association.
    • Anchored the Cultural Event of 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium (10-12 September, 2012) at BHU, Varanasi.
    • Won many prizes at BHU in College events and Inter Faculty Competitions (SPANDAN) for Rangoli, collage, sketching, poster making during UG and PG courses at BHU, Varanasi (2011-2013).