M.A, MPhil (Nepali)

Natural Language Processing & Sociolinguistic.

• POS-Tagging, Speech Segmentation and Annotation, Pronunciation Dictionary, Corpus Development and Annotation, Nepali Speech and text data Collection.
• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF KINSHIP TERMS IN THE TIBETO-HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES: TAMANG, RAI & LIMBU, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling.
  Diploma in Tamil Language (2008) SRLC, CIIL, Mysore, India.
• POS Tagging, Speech Segmentation and Annotation, Chunking, Pronunciation Dictionary, Corpus Development and Normalization, Speech and Text data collection.

PAPERS PRESENTED: National/International

• Entitled:- 'Extinct Kinship Terms of Kirati Community' 13th International Conference of South ASian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL-13) CIIL in collaboration with IILS, Delhi. January 8-10 2018.
• Entitled:- Nepali Part-of- Speech Tagging: Lexical Ambiguities. 37th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal. Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. Date: 26th – 27th November, 2016.
• Entitled:- Indefinite Pronoun in Nepali. Modern Perspective of NLP for Hindi and Other Indian Languages, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. Date: 17th – 19th August 2016.
• Participated in ISPI – Nov 2011 (International Seminar on Prosodic Interfaces) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067
• Participated in International Conference on Language Development and Computing Methods 2010, 2nd & 3rd Dec 2010, Karunya University, Coimbatore.
• Participated in International Symposium on Bilingual Aphasia held at (All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysore, 4th and 5th January 2010.
  Participated in WiSSAP (Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing), 2010 organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.

DELIVERED LECTURES:

• Topic: POS Tagging in Nepali and Issues. Series Lectures, LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore. Date: 10 February 2017.

1. Topics: (1) Speech Data Collection, Segmentation and Annotation.
2. Topics: (2) Tokenization.

• Workshop on Natural Language Processing, Department of Tinedy, Nagaland University, Nagaland. Date: 21th – 27th October, 2016.

1. Topics: (1) Part-of-Speech Tagging.
2. Topics: (2) Tokenization.

• Workshop on Natural Language Processing, The Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. Date: 13th – 19th October, 2016.
• Topics: NLP: Importance of Tokenization.
  21 Day Workshop on NLP, Collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Hyderabad. LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore, 2014.

1. Topics: (1) Part-of-Speech Tagging.
2. Topics: (2) Speech Corpus and Nepali Speech Data Collection.
3. Topics: (3) Selection of Text Corpus, Collection and Normalization.

• Organized Workshops & Orientation Programmes on Natural Language Processing:-

1. Sikkim University, Sikkim, 2013 (Five day).
2. Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling, 2012 (Ten day).
3. North Bengal University, Darjeeling, 2011(Five day).