Academic Qualification

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Ph.D. in Linguistics (Course completed, Thesis will be submitted shortly)

M. Phil. Linguistics, University of Kerala (A Grade)

M.A. Linguistics, University of Kerala (First Rank with Distinction)

BA English, University of Kerala (First Class)

In doing Speech Analysis

In collecting corpus-both speech and text

In Speech and Text annotation

In doing Parts of Speech Tagging and Chunking.

In doing Morph Analysis

Positions held

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Worked as Junior Linguist in Indian Language-Indian Language Machine Translation Project of IIIT-Hyderabad – Centred at Tamil University, Tanjore.

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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Research Experience in the area of Acoustic phonetics (Speech Technology)

Participation in professional
conferences/ seminars/
workshops/ meetings abroad

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• Attended the Awareness Raising Workshop on ‘Internationalised Domain Names’ (IDN) on July 14, 2011 organised by CDAC Pune under the aegis of Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology at Trivandrum.

• Attended the National Seminar on ‘Language Acquisition/Learning’ from February 3 to 4, 2011 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore.

• Attended the National Seminar on ‘Evaluation of Language Teaching in Secondary Schools’ from January 17-19, 2011 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Centre for Testing and Evaluation, CIIL, Mysore.

• Attended the International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Linguistics’ organised by Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore from December 15- 16, 2010.

• Attended the Workshop on ‘An Introduction to Natural Language Processing’ from August 2-6, 2010 organised by LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore in collaboration with the department of Linguistics, University of Kerala.

• Participated as volunteer in the 97th Indian Science Congress from 3- 7 January, 2010.

• Attended the National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Philosophical and Linguistic Theories’ from February 09- 11, 2010 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala.

• Attended the 37th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists from June 18- 20, 2009 organised by International School of Dravidian Linguistics, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics and Dravidian Linguistics Association.

• Attended the National Seminar on ‘Malayalam Grammatical Theories- Tradition to Present’ from March 23- 25, 2009 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala, Department of Malayalam, University of Kerala, Technology and Resource Centre for Malayalam, University of Kerala and The State Institute of Languages, Trivandrum.

• Attended the International Seminar on ‘Democratic and Secular Education’ from December 4-6, 2008 organised by Government of Kerala.

• Attended the seminar on ‘Bio-Linguistics’ on September 29, 2008 organised by Department of Biotechnology (Govt. Of India) sponsored Bioinformatics Facility at the Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala in association with Department of Mathematics, CUSAT and Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala.

• Attended the National Seminar-cum- Workshop to prepare ‘Guidelines for Malayalam- Tamil Bidirectional Electronic Dictionary from 28th July to 1st August, 2008 organised by Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore in collaboration with Department of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

• Attended the International Seminar on ‘Malayalam Language and Globalisation’ from February 25- 27, 2008 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore.

• Attended the Seminar-cum- workshop on ‘Development of Linguistic Terms in Malayalam’ from February 19- 24, 2007 organised by Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore and Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala.

• Participated in the expert meeting on ‘Internationalised Domain names’ organised by CDAC Trivandrum on 22-08-2011.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

• Presented a paper on “Analogy in the prosodic level of synthetic language production” in the International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Linguistics’ organised by Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore from December 15- 16, 2010.

• Presented a paper on “Philosophical Base of Indian Phonetics and Indian Linguistics” in the National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Philosophical and Linguistic Theories’ from February 09- 11, 2010 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala.

• Presented a paper on “Interpretation of the temporal patterns of Rhyming words in Malayalam using theory of Analogy” in the 37th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists from June 18- 20, 2009 organised by International School of Dravidian Linguistics, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics and Dravidian Linguistics Association.

• Presented a paper on “Influence of Social factors in Malayalam Language” in the International Seminar on ‘Malayalam Language and Globalisation’  from February 25- 27, 2008 organised by Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala and Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore.

Publications

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PAPERS PUBLISHED:

• Published a paper on “Corpus based Lexical database for Malayalam” in the book ‘The Linguistics Research in India Volume 1’ published from Germany.

• Published a paper on “Pitch Analysis of Malayalam vowels of Paniya speakers” from Germany.

• Published a paper on “Analogy in the prosodic level of synthetic language production” in the Silver Jubilee Commemoration volume named ‘New Perspectives in Linguistics edited by Prof. C. Sivashanmugam and others and published by Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

Award

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• First Rank holder of MA Linguistics, University of Kerala in 2006

• University of Kerala Merit Scholarship holder during 2004-2006

Residential address

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Bethel, Aradhana
Maruthoor, Vattappara P.O.,
Thiruvananthapuram 695028

Mother tongue

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Malayalam

Other Languages known

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English    and  Basic Knowledge in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Syriac and Hebrew.

Date of Birth

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20-06-1983