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Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL)

Ministry of Education, Government of India
Dr. Mansoor Khan
Dr. Mansoor Khan | Official Website of Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages
Academic Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Linguistics), 2017, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
  • Master of Arts (Linguistics) 2008, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
  • Master of Arts (Urdu) 2014, Department of Urdu, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India.
  • B. A. (Hons) Linguistics, 2006, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Trained in
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Languages Processing/Computational Linguistics
  • Urdu Language and Literature
Position held Junior Resource Person - I
Experience in research, training and documentation
  • Six month of experience on Question Items writing in Urdu Language and Linguistics, in NTS-India, CIIL, Mysore from September 2008to March 2009.
  • Fourteen years of experience in LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore, from June 2009.
  • Transcription and Analysis work experience on Mother Tongue Survey of India.
  • Six month of experience in Computer Application in 2008.
Presented/Participation in professional conferences/seminars/ workshops
  • Participated in 8th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-08) held in the department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, (AMU), in Collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Jan 6-8, 2008.
  • Participated many Seminar and Workshop in the department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, (AMU), Aligarh.
  • Participated in Four-day CEP Workshop on Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing conducted by IIT Bombay from January 12 to 15, 2010.
  • Participated in the Workshop on Introduction to Natural Language Processing organized by LDC-IL held at Department of Linguistics, AMU, Aligarh from February 11 to 15, 2010.
  • Participated in the Workshop on Sensitization of Linguists to Clinical Linguistics held at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysore, March 19, 2010.
  • Participated in the Workshop on Knowledge Sharing Events on Morphological Analyzers and Generators, Creation of Multilingual Speech Resource, Making of Electronic Dictionary, and Part-of-Speech Tagging organized by LDC-IL held at CIIL, Mysore, from March 22 to 26, 2010.
  • Participated in the 8th International conference on Natural Language Processing conducted by IIT- Kharagpur from December 8 to 11, 2010.
  • Participated in the Seminar on International Seminar on Prosodic Interface-2011 organized by the Centre for Linguistics held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from November 25 to 27, 2011.
  • Participated in the National Seminar on POS Tagging in Indian Languages: Issues and Perspective organized by LDC-IL, held at CIIL, Mysore from December 12 to 13, 2011.
  • Organized and delivered lectures on Orientation cum Training Programme on Natural Language Processing Urdu held at University of Lucknow from February 21 to March 2, 2012.
  • Organize Short-Term project on Urdu Speech Data validation held at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore from December 31, 2012 to March 01, 2013.
  • Organized and delivered lectures on Orientation cum Training Programme on Natural Language Processing Assamese held at Assam University Silchar from March 04 to March 08, 2013.
  • Participated in the two day Symposium on Indian Languages and Contemporary Society: Problems and Prospect organized during the Foundation Day of CIIL held at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from July 17th to 18th, 2013.
  • Participated in the National Education Day Celebrations held on Nov 11th 2013 at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
  • Participated in the 35th Annual & 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), organized by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and the Linguistic Society of India, Pune from Nov 27th to 29th, 2013 at Mysore.
  • Participated in the Workshop on Teaching Learning and Testing of Urdu, organized by National Testing Service-India (NTS), held on March 22 & 23, 2014 in Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.
  • Delivered lecture on Concept of Tokenization in the Internship Programme on Language Technology, held at Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL, Mysore from June 03rd to 08th, 2014.
  • Attended Women’s Workshop on Natural Language Processing organized by Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore from July 21 to July 28, 2016.
  • Participated Language Technology and Role of Literature Departments in India organized by ARSD College, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi held on June 02, 2020.
  • Participated in One Week International e-Workshop on Language Translation Skills organized by Higher Education Department (H.E.D), Government of Jammu & Kashmir (UT), in collaboration with National Transliteration Mission (NTM), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Govt. of India held from August 08-12, 2020. 
  • Participated in One Week International e-Workshop on Language Translation Skills organized by Higher Education Department (H.E.D), Government of Jammu & Kashmir (UT), in collaboration with National Transliteration Mission (NTM), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Govt. of India held from August 08-12, 2020. 
  • Participated the talk “Why are some speakers more variable than others? Individual differences in English, Hindi, and Mandarin” by Dr. Ivy Hauser as part of the CURAJ Linguistics Talk Series (Talk 2) on September 23, 2020.
  • Participated in Technical Talk on “Natural Language Processing” organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ATME College of Engineering, Mysore on September 30, 2020.
  • Participated the talk “Linguistics and Other Perspectives on the Syllable” by Professor Pramod Pandey as part of the CURAJ Linguistics Talk Series (Talk 3) on October 24, 2020.
  • Participated the talk “Doing Phonology: Rules and Constraints” by Dr. Somdev Kar as part of the CURAJ Linguistics Talk Series (Talk 6) on December 18, 2020.
  • Participated in and successfully completed the Basic Track of the Workshop on Python Programming for Linguists (PyLing-2020), organized from December 14 - 26, 2020.
  • Participated Day 1 of the CURAJ International Linguistics Symposium on Recent Theories in Linguistics and Their Application on 17 March, 2021.
  • Participated Day 2 of the CURAJ International Linguistics Symposium on Recent Theories in Linguistics and Their Application on 18 March, 2021.
  • Participated the national seminar titled “Language Resources & Artificial Intelligence in Indian Languages”, organized by Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore on June 15, 2021.
  • Participated the talk “The Morphosyntactic Typology of Indian Languages” by Prof. Umarani Pappuswamy as part of the CURAJ Linguistics Talk Series (Talk 9) on 23 June, 2021.
  • Participated International Webinar on “Current Trends in Lexical Semantics, organized by the department of Linguistics, University of Kerala from February 01, 2022 to February 03, 2022.
  • Participated in “Summer School in Computational Linguistics organized by the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages from June 19, 2023 to July 03, 2023.
Publications
  • Inflectional Verbs in Urdu-Hindi: A Distributive Morphological Approach. The Discourse (ISSN No. 2278-0920), Vol-3. Issue 2Pp 40-51, April-June 2014.
  • Urdu to Hindi Changes: Beyond the Simple Transliteration. Reflection in Linguistics and Literature, A commemoration Volume of Prof. Renuga Devi. (ISBN No. 978-93-85643-00-2) July 2015.
  • The Urdu–Hindi Divide: A Semio-phonological Perspective has been selected for publication in the special issue (Volume 5, Issue 1 & 2 Jan-June 2016) of The Discourse, Jamshedpur (A quarterly bilingual refereed research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences) bearing ISSN no. 2278 – 0920.
Mother tongue Urdu
Other Languages known Hindi & English