Academic Qualification

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M.Sc(CS)., M.Phil(CS)., PG Diploma in NLP., M.A(Ling).,PhD (Pursuing)

Technical Skills

Programming:

C, C++, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Perl, Java

Scripts:

HTML, XML, VB Script, Java Script, JQuery

Tools:

Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Dream  Viewer

Database:

MS-Access, SQL Server, MySql

Operating System:

Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux

Trained in

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• Dot Net Technology
• Corpus Linguistics
• E-Learning
• Moodle Platform

Positions held

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• Worked as a Lecturer in Naina Mohamed College, Aranthangi for a year in Department of Computer Science, Affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Trichy, Tamil Nadu [Aug 02-July 05]

• Worked as a Lecturer in Sri Venkateshwara College, Peravurani for 4 years in Department of Computer Science, Affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Trichy, Tamil Nadu [July’ 2003 to June’ 2007]

• Taught Database concepts, Operating system, Networks and Microprocessor to the Correspondence Course Students of Alagappa Univerisity, Karaikudi

• Taught Computer programming languages(C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Scripts, MS-Office etc.,) to the Certificate Course Students of Computer Centre

Experience in research, training and documentation

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• Teaching
• Corpus Maintenance
• Corpus Processing Tools
• Parts-Of-Speech Tagging
• Morphological Analysis
• Chunking
• E-Learning and E-Dictionary
• Sign Language(ELAN) Software
• Language Identification
• ISCII to Unicode Conversion

Participation in professional conferences/ seminars/workshops/ meetings abroad:

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Participated:

Training Programmes/Workshops:

• 7-day: Participated in the One Week Training Course on Language Technology during 06– 12 Mar’ 2014 held at Department of Hindi, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.

• 5-day: Participated in the Training cum Workshop on Tamil Computing in Emerging Trends of Globalization during 27– 3 Mar’ 2014 held at Department of Tamil, Gandhigram Rural Institute- Deemed University, Tamilnadu.

• 2-day: Participated in the Two Days Workshop on Language Documentation: Recordings, Digitalization, Processing and Outputs during 10 – 11 Feb’ 2014 held at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore

• 5-day: Participated in the Continuing Professional Development Programme on Network Security Administration , during 17-21 Jan’2012 held at Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI), Hyderabad

• 3-day: Participated in Hands on Workshop Automatic Speech Recognition using Sphinx and HTK, during 18-20 Jan‘2011 held at AU-KBC, Anna University, Chennai.

• 10-day: Participated in the Orientation cum Training Programme on Natural Language Processing from 10th – 20th Jan’ 2012 held at Dept. of Konkani, Goa University, Goa.

• 10-day: Participated in the Orientation cum Training Programme on Natural Language Processing from 14th – 23th Dec’ 2011 held at Dept. of Kannada Language Studies, Kannada University, Hampi, Karnataka.

Conferences/Seminars:

• Participated in 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics(CICLING) during 11–17 Mar’ 2012 ,Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

• Participated in 8th International Conference on NLP during 08-11 Dec’2010, IIT, Kharagpur

• Participated in International Conference on Language Development and Computing Methods 2010 during 2, 3- Dec’2010, Karunya University, Coimbatore.

• Participated in 7th International Conference on NLP during 15-17 Dec’ 2009, IIIT, Hyderabad.

• Participated in 5-Day KSEs on Development of Morphological Analyzers & Generators Multilingual Speech Resource, Making of Electronic Dictionary and POS Tagging during 22-26 Mar’2010, CIIL, Mysore.

• Participated in  Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing(WiSSAP-09) organized by IIT-Kanpur in association with ISCA and IEEE during 09 – 12 Jan’2009

• Participated in 6th International Conference on NLP 2008 during Dec’ 2009, CDAC, Pune.

• Participated in National Conference on Computer Science and Informatics organized by the Department of Computer Science held on Feb 18 & 19, 2005, St. Joseph, Trichy.

Papers Presented:

International:

• Presented a paper on “Structural Manifestation for Developing POS Tagger for Gujarati Language (Co-author)” in “35th Annual & 1st International Conference on Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI)”, organised by the Central Institute of Indian Language and Linguistic Society of India, Mysore, Nov 27-29, 2013.

• Presented a paper on “Creation of Kannada Morphological Dictionary for Apertium (Co-author)” in “35th Annual & 1st International Conference on Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI)”, organised by the Central Institute of Indian Language and Linguistic Society of India, Mysore, Nov 27-29, 2013.

National:

• Presented a paper on “Difficulties in Creation of Tamil POS Tagging Corpora”  in “National Seminar on POS Annotation for Classical Tamil Issues & Perspectives”,  Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai, March 11-13, 2013.

• Presented a paper on “Customized Annotation Tool for POS Tagging and Chunking”  in “National Seminar on Linguistics and Language Technology”, Guru Nanak Dev Regional Campus, Jalandhar, Punjab, March 6-7, 2013.

• Presented a paper on “Indian Sign Language Corpora Creation in Cognitive Perspectives (Co-author)” in “UGC National Seminar on Language and Cognitive Processes, Annamalai University, 23rd -24th January 2012.

• Presented a paper on “Evaluating the Annotated Corpora using ’CorpEvalSystem’ “ in National Seminar on POS Annotation for Indian Languages: Issues and Perspectives on 12-13th Dec 2011 organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.

• Presented a paper on “Comparison and Mapping of Two Tagsets for Gujarati Language (Main author)” in National Seminar on POS Annotation for Indian Languages: Issues and Perspectives on 12-13th Dec 2011 organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.

• Presented a paper on “POS Tagger for Indian Languages using Hybrid Approach (Main author)”  in “National Seminar on Lexical Resources and Applied Computational Techniques on Indian Languages”, Pondicherry  University, Puducherry (2010).

Workshop/Programme Coordinated:

• 30-Day: Acted as Co-ordinator in the Internship Programme on Language Technology held at LDCIL, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from June 03 to July 04 2014.

• 3-Day: Acted as Co-ordinator in the Workshop on Corpus Based Dictionary held at Rajah Serfoji Government College, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu from 27 to 29 January 2014.

Papers Published:

• Paper entitled as “Rule Based Approach for the Transition of Tagsets to Build the POS Annotated Corpus (Co-author)”  published in July 2014 issue of International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering(IJARCCE), ISSN (Online): 2278-1021, ISSN (Print): 2319-5940, Vol. 3, Issue 7, July 2014. ttp://www.ijarcce.com/upload/2014/july/IJARCCE2A a yoonus Rule Based Approach for the Transition of Tagsets to Build the POS Annotated Corpus.pdf

• Paper entitled as “Evaluation of Hindi & Urdu POS Tagged Corpus: A Comparative Study” published in September 2013 issue of Scholars World-IRMJCR journal, ISSN (Online): 2320-3145, ISSN (Print): 2319-5789, Sep 2013, Page 93-101.http://scholarsworld.net/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Paper-14.pdf

• Paper entitled as “Development of Tamil Pronunciation Dictionary for Language Learners(Main author)” published in proceedings of National Seminar on Information Communication Technology and Language Teaching (ICT & LT), 29-30th October 2012, Annamalai University, Page 88-94

• Paper entitled as “Building Annotation of Indian Sign Language for Use in Language Learning (Co-author)” published in proceedings of National Seminar on Information Communication Technology and Language Teaching (ICT & LT), 29-30th October 2012, Annamalai University, Page 136-141

• Paper entitled as “Mapping of Tagsets: Computational Aspects” published in proceedings of  National Seminar Proceedings of New Perspectives in Applied Linguistics, 20th  - 21st Dec, 2011, Annamalai University,  Page 102-17

• Paper entitled as “A Hybrid POS Tagger for Indian Languages (Main author)” published in September 2011 issue of Language in India online journal, ISSN 1930-2940, Vol. 11:9 Sep 2011. http://www.languageinindia.com/sep2011/yoonusposttaggersfinalp.html

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Residential address

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264/B, 2nd Stage, Gokulam, Mysore

Mother tongue

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Tamil

Other Languages known

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English, Hindi(Reading), Kannada(Speaking)

Date of Birth

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06-08-1977