Academic Qualification

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B. Sc, PG Linguistics, PG English, B.Ed, Diploma in Computer Applications, PhD Linguistics (Pursuing): Topic-Developing Dependency Treebank For Kashmiri.

Trained in         

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Morphology, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics, NLP, English Language Teaching (ELT).

Positions held

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• Working as Research Assistant Junior (JRA), in Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL (2011).

• Worked as a Junior Resource Person (JRP) in Linguistic Data Consortium For Indian Languages, CIIL (2009-2010).

• Worked as NLP Trainee (Intern) in Linguistic Data Consortium For Indian Languages, CIIL (2009).

• Worked as English language teacher in Central Public Mission School, Tral Pulwama, Kashmir in (2009).

• Worked as English language teacher in Shaheen Public High School, Srinagar in (2004).

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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Teaching, Corpus Development, Corpus Annotation; Morph-Analysis, POS-Tagging, Chunking, Syntactic Parsing, Speech Segmentation, Localization and Translation.

Participation in professional
conferences/ seminars/
workshops/ meetings abroad

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• Carried out and presented a project entitled as Creating Dependency Treebank for Kashmiri in 3rd IIIT Hyderabad Advanced Summer School on Natural Language Processing (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).

• Participated in conducting a workshop on Gujarati Language Processing (GLU), NLP awareness programme of LDC-IL, in collaboration with Department of Gujarati, S.P. University, Vidhyanaghar, Gujarat (2010).

• Participated in International Conference on Natural language Processing (ICON), IIT Kharagpur, (2010).

• Presented a paper entitled as Developing Hierarchical Tag-set for Kashmiri, selected in International Conference on Language Development and Computing Methods, Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, Coimbatore (2010).

• Participated in International Conference on Natural language Processing (ICON), University of Hyderabad, (2009).

• Participated in conducting a workshop on Urdu Language Processing (ULP), NLP awareness programme of LDC-IL, in collaboration with Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (2009).

•  Presented a paper on Case syncretism and Disambiguating Algorithms for Urdu-Hindi POS-Tagging in KSE-4, LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore (2009).

•  Presented a paper on Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu, using Apertium; some issues in KSE-1, LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore (2009).

• Participated in organizing Knowledge Sharing Events on the Development of Morphological Analyzers & Generators, Creation of Multilingual Speech Resources, Making of Electronic Dictionary and POS Tagging for Indian languages, LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore (2009).

• Participated in International Conference on Perspectives in Linguistics, University of Kashmir, (2006).

• Paper entitled as Case syncretism and Disambiguating Algorithms for Urdu-Hindi POS-Tagging, published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, Vol.04, 2011.

• Paper entitled as Developing Hierarchical POS Tag-set for Kashmiri, published in proceedings of ICLDCM 2010.ISBN 978-93-80769-00-4

• Paper entitled as Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu, using Apertium; some issues, in pre-proceedings of Knowledge Sharing Events of LDCIL 2009.

• Paper entitled as Case Syncretism in Urdu-Hindi: A Challenge for NLP, published in the proceedings of ICOSOL 2009.

• Paper entitled as Case syncretism and Disambiguating Algorithms for Urdu-Hindi POS-Tagging, in pre-proceedings of Knowledge Sharing Events of LDCIL 2009.

• Paper entitled as Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu, accepted for publication and presentation in AICL 2011.

Residential address

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1st Cross, Vijaynagar, Mysore- 570009.

Mother tongue

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Kashmiri

Other Languages known

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English, Urdu-Hindi and Arabic

Date of Birth

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15-10-1982