Academic Qualification

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• Ph.D. Linguistics – Spell and Grammar checker for Tamil,Tamil University. Thanjavur in 2013.

• M.Phil.,Linguistics,Tamil University. Thanjavur in 2008.

• M.A.,Linguistics,Tamil University. Thanjavur in 2007.

• Diploma in Marathi, WRLC- Pune

• PGDCA in Computer Application

Trained in

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• Laboratory Phonetics and Phonology

• Tamil Computing in Emerging Trends

• Speech Technology for Tamil

• Tamil Computational Linguistics

• Machine Learning & Natural language processing

• Natural Language Program

Position held

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• Senior Resource Person - II

Experience in research,
training and documentation

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• Working as a Senior Resource Person in LDC-IL, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 01-04-2016 to still date.

• Working as a Junior Research Assistant in LDC-IL, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 12-10-2011 to 31.03.2016.

• Worked as a Junior Resource Person for Tamil in LDC-IL, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 20-08-10 to 11-10-2011.

• Worked as a Junior Linguist in the Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation System project supported by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Tamil University, Thanjavur from 29-05-2009 to 18.08.2010.

• Worked as a Junior Linguist in the Indian Language to Development Part of speech Tagger software. CEN, Amirta Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Covai from 01-07-2007 to 31-03-2008.

Presented/Participation in professional conferences/
seminars/ workshops

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• An Advanced Workshop cum Training Programme on “Laboratory Phonetics and Phonology” organized by Educational Technology Unit of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 25th to 30th September, 2017.

• National level Training cum Workshop on ‘Tamil Computing in Emerging Trends’ of Globalization Organized by the Department of Tamil, Gandhigram Rural Institute –Deemed University, Gandhigram from 27th Feb to 3rd mar 2014 in Collaboration with LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.

• National level Training cum Workshop on ‘Speech Technology for Tamil’ organized by the Department of Linguistics, school of Linguistics and Communication, Madurai Kamaraj University, with LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore during 19th -21st Feb 2014.

• Orientation Program on Tamil Computational Linguistics organized by Tamil Academy, SRM University collaboration with LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore in Tamil Academy, SRM University: Duration 20th - 31st Jan 2012.

• Research opportunities in machine Learning and Natural language processing- National engineering college- Kovilpatti, collaboration with CIIL, Mysore: Duration 03th - 16th Dec 2012.

• Workshops for Natural language program, ICON. Anna University collaboration with LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore. 10th - 11th Aug 2010.

• Diploma in Marathi, Institution of WRLC Deccan collage- Pune. Jul 2008- Apr 2009.

• Research mythology workshop, Tamil university, Thanjavur: Duration 14th – 15th Feb 2007.

• People Monitoring Centre, Workshop, Tamil University, Thanjavur: Duration 30th Oct 2006.

• 35th annual & 1st international conference of the linguistic society of India (ICOLSI) in CIIL from 27-29 November 2013.

• Teaching and Testing of Didactic Literature in Tamil held on 25th & 26th October, 2016 organized by National Testing Service – India at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

• Tamil computing in emerging trends of globalization in Dept. of Tamil, Gandhigram rural institute-deemed university, Gandhi gram on 27th Feb-3rd 2014.

• Participated in the National educational day program held on 11th September 2013 at central institute of Indian languages Mysore.

• ‘A Workshop to Translate Some Materials from English to Regional Languages’ was organized at the Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) Mysore, attended the program from 11th to 14th march 2014 as a Resource person.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

• “Some Chunking Facts and Inferences for Tamil Language” in the iDravidian 2017 – 3rd Symposium on Natural Language Processing for Dravidian Languages, held during 7th -8th July 2017 organized by AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chennai & Department of Information Science and Technology, CEG, Anna University Chennai.

• “Mayangkoli in E-dictionary (Minnakaraatiyil mayangkoli)” Seminar on An index and compiling Dictionary of sangam Literature in Electronic Media organized by the Dept of Tamil, Bharathidasan University Constituent College, Navalur kuttapattu, Tiruchirappalli in collaboration with CICT, Chennai during 8th, 9th and 10th of January 2015.

• “Verb negation on POS tagging” (Colvakai ataiyaalappatuttiyil-etirvinai)’ National Seminar Department of Linguistics, in Tamil University, Thanjavur, 03.12.2014.

• “Difficulties in Creation of Tamil POS tagging” Corpus in National Seminar on ‘Parts Of Speech (POS) Annotation for Classical Tamil Issues & Perspectives’ held on 11th to 13th March 2013 at the Department of Language Technology, CICT, Chennai.

• “Sevilakkiyaththil naattupura vazhviyakkangal National Seminar, Department of Tamil, S.V.University, Tirupati in Collaboration with the Central institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai. 15th & 17th Nov- 2012.

• “Corpus and Corpus Analysis Tools for Grammar teaching” National Seminar Bharathiar University, Trichengode collaboration with SRLC, CIIL, Mysore. -11th -12th June 2012.

• “Corpus based Grammar Teaching” National Seminar Tamil University, Thanjavur collaboration with SRLC, CIIL, Mysore. 26th -27th Feb 2012.

• “Development of Tamil Folk Literature through Internet” UGC National Seminar, Sri Venketeswara University, Tripathi 27th -28th Feb 2012.

• “Pati in Tamil a Corpus based Investigation” in the National Seminar on POS Tagging in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives organized by LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore at CIIL, Mysore. 12th & 13th Dec 2011.

• “Spell and Grammar checker for Tamil” (Tamil ezhuththup pizhai thiruththiyum ilakkap pizhai thithuththiyum) National Seminar Department of Tamil, Tamil University, Thanjavur. 21th -23th Mar 2010

• “Linguistics theories in Tholkappiya pirappiyal” (Tholkaappiyam pirappiyalum mozhiyiyal kootpaatum) National Seminar Department of Tamil, Tamil University, Thanjavur. 11th -13th Feb 2010.

• “Morphology on nouns” (Peyarccorkkalin uvrupaniyal pookku) National Seminar, Department of Tamil University, Thanjavur,-26th Feb 2010.

• “A study on place nouns of Parangivettikatu” (Parangivettikatu itappeyaraayvu) National Seminar, Department of Folklore Tamil University, Thanjavur, 04th -05th Apr 2006.

• “A study on mechine Translation” (Mozhipeyarppu paniyil iyanthiram oor aayuv)- National Seminar, AVC- Mahalashmi collage- Thuththukkodi, 23th -24th Feb.2006.

OTHERS:

• Dravidian Linguistics Association – Life time membership

• Co-ordinated Seven days on “National Workshop for women on Natural Language Processing” LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore, from 21-28th July, 2016.

• Delivered lecture on Spell checker in Tamil in “National Workshop for women on Natural Language Processing”, LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore, from 21-28th July, 2016.

• Delivered lecture on NLP Application for Tamil in Workshop on Corpus Based Dictionary (Tamil-English) by Department of English, Rajah Serfoji Government College, Thanjavur in collaboration with and LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore on 27th -29th Jan 2014.

Delivered lecture on Comparison of part of speech (POS) Tag set in Workshop on natural language processing conducted jointly by Department of Linguistics, Periyar Maniyammai University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, and LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore on 21-25 Nov 2013.

• Delivered lecture on POS Tagging in Tamil in Workshop on natural language processing conducted jointly by Department of Linguistics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, and LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore on 03-07 Jan 2011.

Publications

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• Development of Tamil Spell checker in “Reflection in Linguistics and Literature” Published by Lavanya Pathipagm, Chennai, ISBN no: 978-93-85643-00-2, page no.137-141, July, 2015.

• Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics vol.41.No.2, July-Dec 2015 (co-author )

Residential address

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1, Periyar Middle Street, ManthaiVeli,
Puduppet, Attur, Salem Dt. Tamilnadu 636 102

Mother tongue

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Tamil

Other Languages known

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Marathi & English