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Mona Parakh

 

 

 

Academic Qualification

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M.A. [Linguistics], Dept. of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.[Jul 1998 - Apr 2000]

Research course in NLP, LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Sep 2000 - Jul 2002]

P.G. Diploma in Computational Linguistics, LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Jul 2002 – Jul 2003]

UGC-NET qualified. [Dec 2005]

Trained in

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General Linguistics & Computational Linguistics

Positions held

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Lecturer (Temporary), Department of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.[Jul 2007 – April 2008]

Teaching Asst. (Temporary) Deptartment of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.[Jun 2006 – May 2007], [Jul 2005 – May 2006], [Jul 2004 – May 2005], [Aug 2003 – May 2004]

Copy Writer/Script Writer,  Kaleidomedia [Multi-media division] Bit Mappers Ltd.[Sep 1998 - Apr 1999]

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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Research Experience

Field work and documentation for M.A. Dissertation titled
Segmental Phonology of Rathvi, at the Department of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.
[Oct 1999 - Apr 2000]

Research Assistant for NLP projects at LTRC, IIIT,  Hyderabad. [Sep 2000 – Jul 2002]

Research Scholar for NLP based projects, at LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Jul 2002 – 2003]

Projects worked on

English - Hindi MT system – Shakti [Jul 2002 – 2003]
Hindi Chunker [May - Jul 2002]          
Hindi Part of Speech Tagger [May - Jun 2002]
Rule-based Parser for Hindi [Jan - Jun 2002]
Hindi WSD  [Aug 2001 - Apr 2002]
English - Hindi Morph Analyser [Jul - Dec 2001]
Anusaaraka : On-line English-Hindi Language Accessor [Sep 2000 - Jun 2002]

Technical Training

Operating Systems        :  Linux, Windows
Scripting Languages      :  Perl, Shell
Web Technologies        :  HTML

Participation in professional
conferences/ seminars/
workshops/ meetings abroad

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Papers Presented

Linguistic Evidence for Gender Bias: A Study of Kinship Terms and Address Forms in Rajasthani, Eighth International Conference for South Asian Linguistics (ICOSAL-8), Aligarh. [Jan 2008]

Issues In Translation : Parallel Corpora as a Resource, workshop on LRMT-2002: Language Resources  for Machine Translation, Hyderabad. [Jun 2002]

Issues In Translation : Parallel Corpora as a Resource, students’ seminar Snippets  2002, Hyderabad. [Mar 2002]

A Statistical Parser for Hindi,  a joint presentation, Corpus-Based NLP Workshop, Chennai. [Dec 2001]

Free Software and Online Dictionary GCIDE as a potential Lexical  Resource Base, workshop on Lexical Resources for NLP, at LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Jan 2001]

Segmental Phonology of Rathvi, seminar on The Study of Tribal  Languages in India, at the M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara. [Feb 2000]

Conferences, Seminars, Workshops attended

Eighth International Conference for South Asian Linguistics (ICOSAL-8), at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. (Jan 2008)

Summer School for New Linguistic Survey of India, at CIIL, Mysore. (May-Jul 2007)

Second Workshop on Wordnet in Indian Languages, at Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (Jan 2007)

National Workshop on Parsing English: A Paninian View, at  Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. [Nov 2006]

Workshop for Review and Finalisation of Item Resources for Assessing Proficiency in Gujarati, at CIIL, Mysore. [May-June 2006]

Ninth National Workshop on Human Sciences in the Age of Technology, by the Forum on Contemporary Theory, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. [Nov 2004]

First National Interdisciplinary Course on Theory / Praxis, by the Forum on Contemporary Theory, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.[Aug 2003]

Workshop on Machine Translation, by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India, Delhi. [Sep 2003]

Colloquim on Word Net for Indian Languages by SAP and CALTS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad [Mar 2003]

RIDE-MILM 2003: 13th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Multi-lingual Information Management, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Mar 2003]

ICON-2002: International Conference on Natural Language Processing, at NCST, Mumbai [Dec 2002]

Workshop on LRMT-2002: Language Resources for Machine Translation, organised by LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Jun - Jul 2002]

Snippets 2002, Seminar at CALTS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. [Mar 2002]
                                               
Workshop on Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing at AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai. [Dec 2001 - Jan 2002]

Workshop on AnnCorra - Annotated Corpora for Indian Languages, at LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Oct 2001]

World Congress on World Languages in Multilingual Contexts at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. [Jan 2001]

Workshop on Lexical Resources for Natural Language Processing at LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. [Jan 2001]

Seminar on The Study of Tribal Languages in India, at the Department of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara. [Feb 2000]
                                     
Seminar on Challenges in Translation, at the Department of Linguistics, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara. [Jul 1999]


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Publications

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Book, Tests of Language Proficiency – Gujarati, CIIL, Mysore. (One of the contributors) [Jan 2007]

Paper, Issues In Machine Aided Translation: Using Parallel Corpora as a Resource, Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics,  Jammu and Kashmir: University of Kashmir. Vol 1 [April 2008]

Current projects and Responsibilities

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Reader/Research Officer, LDC-IL Project, CIIL, Mysore

Associate Editor, Longman Basic Dictionary in Gujarati, CIIL, Mysore. [Jul 2007 – till date]

Membership of learned
societies and boards

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Life member, Linguistic Society of India, Deccan College, Pune

Life member, Forum on Contemporary Theory, The Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara.

Residential address

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C/o. Vidya Sequeira, 31/2A, 2nd Cross, Temple Road,
4th Block, Jayalaxmipuram, Mysore-570012

Mother tongue

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Gujarati

Other Languages known

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Hindi, English, working knowledge of Marathi and French

Date of Birth

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27 May 1977

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