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Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL)

Ministry of Education, Government of India
Dr. Shahnawaz Alam
Dr. Shahnawaz Alam | Official Website of Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages
Academic Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Urdu Language and Literature), 2009, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
  • NET (National Eligibility Test) Qualified Three Times, Conducted by UGC, New Delhi.
  • Master of Arts (Urdu Language and Literature), 2002, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India. 
  • B. A. (Hons) Urdu Language and Literature, 2000, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India. 
Trained in
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Parts of Speech Tagging
  • Morphological Analyzer
  • Documentations
  • Digitization
  • Lexicography
  • Translation
  • Transcription
  • Transliteration
Position held Junior Resource Person-I
Experience in research, training and documentation
  • Worked as Junior resource Person for Urdu  in “Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages” CIIL, Mysore. (2010-2011).
  • Worked as Research assistanr (Junior) for Urdu  in “Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages” CIIL, Mysore. (2011-2016).
  • Worked as Junior resource Person 1 for Urdu  in “Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages” CIIL, Mysore. (2016-till now).
  • Documentation of Urdu text and speech corpora and Dogri text corpus, Phonetic Transcription, NLP – Corpus, Morph Analyzer, POS tagging, Chunking, Speech, Localization and Translation, Digitization, Transliteration.
Presented/Participation in professional conferences/seminars/ workshops
  • “Literature in SAARC Countries”, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2005.
  • Various Seminars attended at Aligarh Muslim University during 1997 to 2009.
  • 40 Days Workshop on “New Linguistic Survey of India” at CIIL, Mysore in 2007.
    Urdu Academy Workshop New Delhi. 2005.
  • 21 Days Workshop on “Language Contacts in South Asia” at CIIL in 2010.
  • 3 Days “South Asian Language Analysis (SALA)” Conference at CIIL, Mysore in 2010.
  • 2 Days National Seminar on “POS Tagging in Indian Languages” at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore in 2011.
  • 4 Days International Conference on “Natural Language Processing (ICON 2011)” at AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai in 2011.
  • Presented Paper “Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu” in All India Conference of Linguists (AICL) at Punjabi University, Chandigarh in 2011.
  • Attended and delivered lecture on “Natural Language Processing for Odia Language” in Bhubaneshwar 2012.
  • Attended and delivered lecture on “Natural Language Processing for Urdu Language” in Lucknow 2012.
  • Attended and delivered lecture on “Parts of Speech Tagging” in University of Assam, Silchar, Assam 2013.
  • Took part in Organizing “1st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI) 27th -29th 2013 at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
  • Participated in First National Education day Celebration at CIIL, Mysore.
  • Participated in “Teaching, Learning and Testing in Urdu” at NTS, CIIL, Mysore.
  • Delivered lecture on “Linguistic Structure across Languages” in “Internship
  • Program on Lan-guage Technology” at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
  • Presented paper on the topic “Iqbal ka tasauwar-e-harkat-o-amal” in one day national seminar on “Allama Iqbal: Fikr-o-Paigham”, conducted by Hazrat syed Abdullah Basheban Academy, Belgaum (Karnataka), in 26th April, 2015.
Mother tongue Urdu
Other Languages known English , Hindi, Persian (Read & Write), Arabic(Read & Write).