Academic Qualification

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Ph.D. Scholar [Applied Linguistics] Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies [CALTS] University of Hyderabad [2006 - present]

M. Phil. [Applied Linguistics] Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, [CALTS] University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad [Nov. 2004 - May 2006]

M.A. [Applied Linguistics] Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, [CALTS] University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad [Nov. 2002 – April 2004]

Trained in         

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Applied Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

Positions held

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• Worked as Lecturer cum Resource Person in LDC-IL from 5th May 2008 to 12th October 2011 with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.

• Worked as Language Specialist in the project of Tamil Thesaurus on contract based i.e. form 25th Oct 2008 to 4th Nov 2008 with BUTLER HILL GROUP, LLC, (U. S. based) a Virginia limited liability company (“Contractor”) MICROSOFT CORPORATION, a Washington corporation (Microsoft).  

• Worked as an Annotator on Contract based for 3 months i.e. from 24th January 2008 to 9th May 2008 with BUTLER HILL GROUP, LLC, (U. S. based) a Virginia limited liability company (“Contractor”) MICROSOFT CORPORATION, a Washington corporation (Microsoft).       

• Worked as Linguist under “Development of Indian Language Machine Translation System (IL-IL) (Tamil-Telugu, Telugu-Tamil)” from 6th Jan 2007 – 31st March 2008 sponsored by Department of Information Technology, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India.

• Worked as Project Fellow for two years from 1st Oct 2004 to 31st Dec 2006 under the project of “UGC/SAP” at CALTS, University of Hyderabad.

• Worked as an independent contractor for nine months (from 3rd Feb 2005 to 31st Oct 31 2005) with Zi Corporation of Canada, Inc., a body corporate, incorporated under the laws of Alberta, having its office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (“the Company”).

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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• M. Phil. Dissertation on “A Statistical Study of Certain Aspects of Written Tamil Corpus” for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics at Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad.

• Developed a “Morphological Generator of Tamil Nouns” (using PERL) at Language Technology Laboratory (Centre for ALTS), University of Hyderabad during M.A. Programme.

Participation in Professional
Conferences/ Seminars/
Workshops/ Meetings Abroad:

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• Participated in the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) held at IIIT Hyderabad from 7th to 12th January 2008 as per the following details.
                a. Full Conference (8 to 10 Jan 2008)
                b. Tutorial ( 7 Jan 2009)
                c. Workshop (11-12 Jan 2008)

• Participated in the “TCS NLP Winter School” which is held from 24th December 2007 to 7th January 2008 at IIIT Hyderabad.

• Attended in the Workshop on Advanced Course in Computational Linguistics at Dravidian University from 7-15th of April 2008.

• Participated in ICON-2007: International Conference on Natural Processing held at IIIT Hyderabad, during January 4th to 6th 2007.

• Participated in the International Seminar on Endangered and Indigenous Languages held at CALTS, University of Hyderabad from 1st to 3rd March, 2008.

• Participated in the Workshop on Parsing English: A Paninian View held from 13th to 18th Nov 2006, at the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad.

• Attended in the National Workshop on Acoustic Analysis of Speech held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore from 19th to 20th August 2004.

• Attended in the Workshop on Advanced Course in Computational Linguistics at Dravidian University from 7-15th of April 2008.

• Participated in the Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP-09) organized by IIT-Kanpur in association with ISCA and IEEE during 9th – 12th January, 2009.

• Participated in the Knowledge Sharing Events on Morphological Analyzers & Generators, Creation of Multilingual Speech Resource, Making of Electronic Dictionary, and Part-of-Speech Tagging from 22nd–26th March, 2010 organized by the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

• Attended the “Hands-on Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition using Sphinx and HTLK” conducted during 18-20 Feb 2011 at AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai-44.

Paper Presented

• Presented a paper on The Statistical analysis of Tamil Corpus in the 26th Annual International Conference on South Asian Language Analysis (SALA-26) jointly organized by Kannada University, Hampi and Central Institute of Indian Language, Mysore during 19th to 21st December 2007.

• Presented a paper entitled A Contrastive Analysis of Punjabi-Tamil Morphology in the UGC National Conference on Globalization and Current Trends in Linguistic Studies organized by the Department of Linguistics at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore during 24th to 25th January 2007.

• Presented a paper on Spell Checker and Thesaurus for Word processor for Tamil in MS Office System in National seminar on e-Potentials of Tamil Language in Telecommunication organized by the department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore during 31st Oct to 1st Nov 2008 in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu State Council of Higher Education, Chennai.

• Presented a paper on Frequency Distribution of Derivational Morphemes in Tamil in the Linguistic Society of India’s 31st All-India Conference of Linguists (AICL2009) at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

• Presented a paper on Corpus and its role in Natural Language Processing in the International Seminar on ‘Tradition and Novelty in Literature’ conducted by the Tamil Research Scholars’ Association, School of Tamil Studies, at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai on 6th Jan 2011.

• Presented a paper entitled The Construction “I Love You”: Comparative Accounts in Tamil and English in the Third National English Conference on New Directions in Comparative Literature hosted by the Department of English Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad on 9th to 10th March 2011.

• Participated and worked on a project entitle Comparison of FST tools for Morphological Analysis at IIIT Hyderabad from 24th Dec. 2007 to 7th Jan. 2008.

Publications

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• I am one of the co-authors along with Prof. G. Uma Maheshwar Rao, to a course material-book on Corpus LinguisticsPGDCAIL-421 Published by Centre for Distance Education, University of Hyderabad in 2007.

• Published a paper on Corpus and its role in NLP in the International Seminar on ‘Tradition and Novelty in Literature’ conducted by the Tamil Research Scholars’ Association, School of Tamil Studies, at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai on 6th Jan 2011, in Vol. 3 pp 1682-1686.

• Published a paper entitled The Construction “I Love You”: Comparative Accounts in Tamil and English in Aug 2011 issue of Language in India online journal.

• Paper (in print) to publish on Determining Categorical Status by Functional Categories: Evidence from Manipuri and Tamil by LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore.

• Paper accepted to publish on Statistical Study of Tamil corpus on South Asian Language Review: A bi-annual Journal on Language and Linguistics Volume XVIII. No.2 January 2008.

Award

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University Gold Medal in M.A. Applied Linguistics

Life membership in Linguistic Society of India (LSI)

Residential address

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House # 83, 6th Main,
2nd Block, Jayalakshmipuram,
Near B.M. Hospital, Mysore -570012,
Karnataka

Mother tongue

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Tamil

Other Languages known

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Telugu and English

Date of Birth

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31st March 1979