Academic Qualification

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M.A in Linguistics, P.G. Diploma in Translation and Official Correspondence in Hindi Course, Ph.D in Linguistics (persuing)

Core Linguistics, Localization and Translation, NLP, Corpus and Field Linguistic

Positions held

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•  Assisted in UGC major project - “Video documentation of Local Knowledge bearers in the context of Globalization” Karnataka University, Dharwad (2008-2009)

• Worked as Research Scholar in “Mother Tongue Survey of India” Office of the Registrar general, language Division, Kolkata, and Karnataka University, Dharwad (2008-2009)

• Worked as a Project Fellow in UGC Major Project “A Pronunciation Dictionary For Kannada” Karnataka Arts College, Dharwad (2008-2009)

• Worked as intern in “Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages” CIIL, Mysore (2009-2010)

• Worked as a Resource Person for Kannada in “Local Language Programming” CIIL, Mysore under the supervision of Dr. B. Mallikarjun  (2009-2011)

• Worked as a Junior Resource Person in “Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages” CIIL, Mysore (2011)

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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Documentation of Local Knowledge, Descriptive Analysis, Pronunciation Dictionary, NLP – Corpus, Morph Analyzer, POS tagging, Localization and Translation

Participation in professional
conferences/ seminars/
workshops/ meetings abroad

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• “Kannada Bhashe Mattu Tantrajnyana” in March 2008 – held by Dr. R. C. Hiremath Institute of Kannada Studies and CIIL, Mysore.

• “Sensitization of Linguistics to Clinical Linguistics” in March 2010 – held by CIIL, Mysore and Institute of Speech and Hearing, Manasagangotri, Mysore.

• “Sanskrit and Computers: getting equipped to face new Challenges” in Dec 2009 – held by Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad.

• Participated in Knowledge Sharing Event in 2010 – held by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore

• “Pronunciation Lexicon Standards For Indic Languages” - held by Centre for Linguistics, JNU, Department of Information Technology Govt. of India and IIT Kharagpur, held at JNU University in 4th and 5th May 2011.

• “Kannada Language and Globalization” – held by Kannada University, Hampi and Dr. R.C. Hiremath Institute of Kannada Studies, on 30th and 31st March 2009.

• “Lexical resources and applied computational Techniques on Indian Languages” – held by Department of computer science School of Engineering and Technology, Pondicherry University, on 4th and 5th October 2010.

• “B.M ShrI. Sahitya” – held by Mysore University, on March 31st 2011.

• Participated in organizing South Asian Language Analysis (SALA-29), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Manasagangotri, Mysore (2011).

• Participated in BIS meeting for Standardization of POS Tag-sets for Indian Languages, commenced at LTRC Lab, IIIT Hyderabad, (2011).

PAPERS PRESENTED:

• Designing POS Tag set for Kannada” – A knowledge Sharing Event organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore on 25-26th March 2010.

• “Fundamental Principles and Errors in Kannada Learning Situation by Somavamsha Sahasrarjuna Kshatriya” - A National Seminar on “A Linguistic Study of Errors In Kannada Learning Situations – organized by Southern Regional Language Centre, CIIL, Mysore and Karnataka Arts College Dharwad on 14th and 15th February 2011.

• Local Seminar on “sOmavamsha sahasrArjuna kSatriyara nuDiya lakSaNagaLu” – held by Somavamsha Sahasrarjuna Kshatriya Research Centre, Karanataka University, Dharwad on 19th May 2011.

Publications

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Designing POS Tag set for Kannada” – A knowledge Sharing Event organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore on 25-26th March 2010.

Residential address

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Vijaya Nagar 1st stage, Mysore, Karnataka

Mother tongue

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Kannada

Other Languages known

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Hindi and English

Date of Birth

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25-07-1983