Dr. Girish Nath Jha
Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics
Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
Phone(O) : 26741308, 26738834, 26704691
Fax : 26741308
Email  : girishjha@gmail.com , girishj@mail.jnu.ac.in 
URL : http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in

Education

  M.A:      JNU, New Delhi, 1991 in Linguistics

M.Phil:   JNU, New Delhi, 1993 in Linguistics (Computational Morphology)

Ph.D:     JNU, New Delhi: 1996 in Linguistics (Machine Translation)

M.A:       University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA: 1999 in Linguistics (Natural Language Interface for databases)

Research Interest

Indian languages corpora and standards, Sanskrit and Hindi linguistics, Science & Technology in Sanskrit texts, Computational Lexicography, Machine Translation, e-learning, web based technologies, RDBMS techniques, software design and localization

Employment History

  • Mukesh and Priti Chatter Distinguished Professor of History of Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA (2009- )
    • Research and experimentation Scinece And Technology In Ancient Indian Texts (SATIAIT)
    • taught a course "Sanskrit-II" at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, July 5 - Agu 4, 2011
    • taught a course "Sanskrit-I" at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, May 31 - June 30, 2011
    • taught a summer course titled  Introduction to India’s culture and traditions, summer-II course, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July 7-Aug 10, 2010
  • Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics,Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U (2008-till date)
    • teaching computational linguistics/NLP and computer application courses to the MA, M.Phil./Ph.D. students of Sanskrit and Linguistics
    • supervising research students, managing projects, R&D consultancies
  • Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, J.N.U (2002-2008)
  • Software Development Specialist, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois, USA (2001 – 2002)
    • Worked as project manager and lead software engineer for building educational and e-learning software applications using the tools ColdFusion, SQL Server
    • Advised HK-USA on software development tools and techniques
  • Software Engineer, Collaborative Technologies (renamed dChain Commerce), Champaign, Illinois, USA (1999 – 2001)
    • Worked as a lead programmer in developing web/windows based applications using Java servlet / JSP, applets, AWT, Swing, SQL server/JDBC.
    • Completed a project on internationalization of web-application using JAVA resource bundles. Project involved making the source code compatible to the marketplace locales and languages
  • Research Assistant, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1998 - 1999)
    • Worked with the lead database group of Beckman Institute System Services, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology for conversion of Paradox based systems to Delphi/Oracle.
  •  Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (summer, 1997)
    • Completed a syntactic analysis of recorded speech samples of schizophrenic patients
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1996-1998)
    • Taught elementary and intermediate Hindi linguistics courses to undergrad students
    • Prepared new courses, evaluated and graded student

Consultancy (6)

  • Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA for narrow band data for language identification by computers, Jan 2011-
  • Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, for exploring scientific texts in Sanskrit, Oct 2009 -
  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune for their Sanskrit localization project, August-October 2007
  • Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore for their POS tagging project for Indic languages,  Nov 2006-Jan 2007
  • Microsoft India on their project on Handwriting Recognition for Devanagari, Feb – June 2006
  • Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha (then New Delhi)on their Database system for dialects of Hindi  project (2002-2003)

Invited Lectures/speeches (67)

  1. "Purushartha and Yoga: a no-contradiction approach", invited talk in the "Summer Workshop on Dharmic Traditions", Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July19 & July26, 2011
  2. "Modern Hindu Practices and their evolution", invited talk in the "Summer Workshop on Dharmic Traditions", Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July19, 2011
  3. "What is dharma: following a textual strategy", invited talk in the "Summer Workshop on Dharmic Traditions", Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July18, 2011
  4. "Why Study Sanskrit", talk delivered in "Trindic Corps Youth Camp", Organized by Center of Indic Studies and 3R Foundation, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July1-4, 2011
  5. Computational Linguistics, Talk delivered at Hindu College, Dec 21, 2010
  6. Sanskrit and Computer, lecture delivered at NCERT teachers orientation, Dec 1, 2010
  7. Language Technology Resources for Sanskrit and other Indian Languages at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, LDC Institute, University of Pennsylvania, July 22, 2010
  8. Multilingual Multimodal resources – creating a leveling field in India, COCOSDA/WRITE/FLaReNet workshop “language Technology Issues for International cooperation”, LREC2010, Malta, 22 May, 2010
  9. Indian Languages Corpora and Application Development at JNU, Prof R N Shrivastava Memorial Lecture, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra, March 23, 2010
  10. Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics, Prof R N Shrivastava Memorial Lecture, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra, March 22, 2010
  11. Language Technology & Sanskrit, Dept of Sanskrit, Hansraj College, Delhi University, Feb 18, 2010
  12. Computational Linguistics for Sanskrit, PhD research workshop, Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, Feb 16, 2010
  13. A national effort to develop technologies for multiple national languages the experience of India, FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resource Network), funded by European Commission, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 12, 2010
  14. International Collaboration: Europe and India, FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resource Network), funded by European Commission, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 12, 2010
  15. Why should you consider Sanskrit, Sanskrit Dept, Mothers School, Jan 22, 2010
  16. Hamaare gaon, shiksha aur computer, Kuruom Vidyalaya: Inauguration and Educational Workshop, Jan 14, 2010, Kuruom, Sultanpur, UP
  17. Web based technologies, Web Creations, Lucknow, Jan 13, 2010
  18. Linguistics for Sanskrit, “Workshop on Sanskrit and Computers: Getting equipped to face the new challenges" organized jointly by the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, and the Sanskrit Academy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 20 Dec 2009
  19. Java for Computational Linguistics, “Workshop on Sanskrit and Computers: Getting equipped to face the new challenges" organized jointly by the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, and the Sanskrit Academy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 21-23 Dec 2009
  20. Computational linguistics R&D at JNU, “Workshop on Sanskrit and Computers: Getting equipped to face the new challenges" organized jointly by the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, and the Sanskrit Academy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 23 Dec 2009
  21. Computational Linguistics and TDIL Programme, panel discussion on “Getting less-resourced languages on board - which languages, which resources, which methods, which funding?", 4th International Language and Technology Conference (4th LTC), Poznan, Poland, Nov 6, 2009
  22. Indian Language Corpora Initiative (ILCI), invited talk, 4th International Language and Technology Conference (4th LTC), Poznan, Poland, Poznan, Poland, Nov 6, 2009
  23. Sanskrit and Computer,  Sanskrit Dept, Gargi College, Delhi University, Sept 17,2009
  24. Documentation initiatives for Sanskrit and other Indian languages, International seminar on language documentation, Center for Linguistics, School of Languages Literatures & Culture Studies, JNU, Oct 27, 2009
  25. JNU Text Encoding & Search for Sanskrit (J-TESS), Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi, Oct 26, 2009
  26. Issues in Sanskrit NLP and e-learning, Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Jallandhar, Aug 7,2009
  27. Sanskrit aur Kamputar, DPS HRD Center, Dwarka, New Delhi, Apr 15, 2009
  28. Emerging trends in Language Technology and Sanskrit Computing at the Science Festival 2009, organized by School of Life Sciences, J.N.U., Feb 27, 2009
  29. Methods and Issues in Computer Processing of Panini,  Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, Feb22, 2009
  30. Introduction to Language Technology, Center of Indian Languages, SLL&CS, JNU, Jan 23, 2009
  31. Introduction to Natural Language Processing, refresher course for Computer Science, Academic Staff College, JNU, Nov 14, 2008
  32. Demonstration of Sanskrit software developed at JNU (included as part of Sanskrit CD released by Ministry of IT and CDAC Pune, Nov 25), Tirupati Sanskrit Vidyapeeth
  33. Multimedia e-learning for Sanskrit, at DPS, HRD Center, Dwarka, New Delhi, Nov 16, 2008
  34. Issues in Sanskrit NLP and e-learning, Dept of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, MD University Rohtak, Nov 7, 2008
  35. Sanskrit and Computer, Haryana Sanskrit Academy at Bhiwani, 28/9/2008
  36. Plenary speech in the international  workshop titled  Anaphora Resolution II,  organized by Bergen University, Bergen, Norway, Aug29-31, 2008
  37. Lecture series on NLP and Panini, Deptt of Vyakarana, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), March 25-26, 2008
  38. Teaching through e-learning, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Dec29-30,2007
  39. Multilingualism, localization and language computing, IP Engineering College, Gaziabad, Nov 17, 2007
  40. Invited speech  at First International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, INRIA, at Paris-Rocquencourt, 29 Oct-31 Oct 2007
  41. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics at Sanskrit Shodh Parishad , Delhi University, August 1, 2007
  42. Lecture series on Language Technology at the NLSI summer training, CIIL Mysore, June 18-19, 2007
  43. Computational Linguistics,  Dept of Linguistics, Kashmir University, Srinagar, Feb23, 2007
  44. Localization (l10n) of web-applications: strategies for Hindi/Sanskrit, Workshop on Localization of e-Governance Applications: Issues & Standards, February 21-22, 2007, Napoleon II, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, organized by MAIT and MCIT  
  45. Lecture-series in the area of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics at the Dept of NLP and Shabdabodha, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, Jan25-27, 2007
  46. Computational Phonology and Morphology, PGDLT course at CDAC, Noida, Jan 5, 2007
  47. Language Technology. PGDLT course at CDAC, Noida, Dec 21, 2006
  48. Lecture series on Language Technology , MA course on Language Technology at Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha, 11-15 Dec, 2006
  49. Linguistic and cultural challenges for software localization (l10n): the case of Hindi/Sanskrit, national seminar on Technology development for content creation and Localization in Indian languages, Organized by CSTT,MHRD, Govt. of India and RKGIT, Gaziabad at RKG Institute of Technology, Gaziabad, Dec 1, 2006
  50. Sanskrit and computer, Haryana Sanskrit Academy at Panchkula, Chandigarh, Nov 26, 2006
  51. Hindi Lexicography and computer, at Central Hindi Institute, Agra, at the workshop on “Hindi dialect dictionary” , Oct 16,2006
  52. Sanskrit and Computer, Golden Jubilee Celebration of PGDAV College, Delhi University (organized by Delhi Sanskrit Academy, Sept 29, 2006
  53. Invited talk at Summit on Internationalization of Web at Hotel Grand Ashoka, Bangalore (24-25 August, 2006) organized by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Manufacturers’ Association of Information Technology (MAIT)
  54. Computational Linguistics: an overview, CDAC Kolkata, July 6, 2006
  55. Linguistic theories and formal grammar models, CDAC Kolkata, July 5, 2006
  56. Paninian Formalism for NLP,  CDAC Kolkata, July 4, 2006
  57. Invited talk at the First National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages(MSPIL-06) 31st March - 4th April, 2006 at IIT Bombay
  58. Language and computers, ASC Orientation Course, Rajdhani College, Delhi University,  Dec 27,2005
  59. Invited speech at the National Seminar on Translation Today: state and issues, Deptt. of Linguistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, August 23-25, 2005
  60. Machine Translation in the MA course on Translation Technology at Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi University, Wardha, April11-16, 2005
  61. Computational aspects of Indian grammatical tradition at the 4th course on IGT organized by CIIL,Mysore at NRLC, Patiala, Feb2005
  62. Computational aspects of Panini at the Refresher course on Sanskrit Linguistics, organized by CIIL,Mysore at Deptt of Linguistics , Punjabi University, Patiala and at the NRLC, Patiala, Feb-March 2003
  63. Computational linguistics,  e-learning at the Orientation course on Information technology at Academic Staff College, JNU, August 2004
  64. Computational linguistics, e-learning at the Orientation course on Information technology at Academic Staff College, JNU, December 2004
  65. Macromedia ColdFusion for dynamic web content at UNESCO sponsored refresher course at School of Information Technology, JNU, September, 2003
  66. Lectures on general linguistics,  Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Delhi: (1995-1996)
  67. Lectures in UGC sponsored computer courses, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth: (1995-1996)

Research papers/articles(75)

  1. "Origin and Development of Indian Languages and Linguistic Area", Invited paper in the "Symposium on Origin of Indian Civilization", Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July9, 2011
  2. "Paninian System of Languages: A Computational Paradigm", Invited paper in the "Vedanta & Science Symposium", Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July6, 2011
  3. Sanskrit verb argument valence: a computational analysis, co-author with Subhash Chandra, proceedings of the O-COCOSDA 2010, Kathmandu
  4. Translating politeness across cultures: case of Hindi and English, co-author with Ritesh Kumar (presented by Ritesh Kumar), procs of 3rd ACM International Conference on Inter-cultural collaboration, Copenhegen Business School, Denmark, 18-20 Aug, 2010
  5. SaHiT - Sanskrit-Hindi Translator, in the 8th International conference of the WAVES, at Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies, August 5, 2010
  6. Text Encoding and Search for Sanskrit at the "19th International Vedanta Congress", organized by Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July 30, 2010
  7. SATIAIT – progress report and  translation of Rasaayana-saara, presented at the "Symposium on Science and Technology in Ancient Indian Text", Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, July 26, 2010
  8. The TDIL program and the Indian Language Corpora Initiative (ILCI), Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), published by ELRA, isbn 2-9517408-6-7, pp982-985, Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010
  9. Multilingual Multimodal Resources of the future: challenges and opportunities for India (with Ritu Nidhi), abstract accepted for W3C international conference titled “World Wide Web: Technology, Standards and Internationalization Conference”, May 6-7, 2010, New Delhi
  10. Online Multilingual Amarakosha: the relational lexical database (with R. Chandrashekar, Umesh Kumar Singh, Vibhuti Nath Jha, Satyendra Pandey, Surjit Kumar Singh, Mukesh Mishra), demo paper in the proceedings of the 5th Global Wordnet Conference, IIT Mumbai, Feb1, 2010
  11. Annotating Sanskrit corpus – adapting IL-POSTS (with Madhav Gopal and Diwakar Mishra),  published in the proceedings of the 4th International Language technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, Nov 2009
  12. Discourse Anaphora and Resolution Techniques in Sanskrit, with Sobha L, Diwakar Mishra begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     , accepted as poster paper at the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Ambiguity Resolution Colloquium (DAARC-2009), to be held at Goa, India, Nov 5-6, 2009
  13. Linguistic pedagogy and e-learning: the case for Sanskrit, co-author with Prachi Sinha & Priti Bhowmik, accepted for “Contemporary Themes and Issues in Language Pedagogy” vol2, Vaishna Narang ed, 2009
  14. Automatic Indexing System for texts of Indian Intellectual Tradition, with Diwakar Mani, Umesh Kumar Singh, Prachi Sinha, presented at 18th International Vedanta Congress, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July16-19,2009 
  15. Sanskrit Analysis System (SAS), with Manji Bhadra, Surjit Kumar Singh, Sachin Kumar, Subash, Muktanand Agrawal, R.Chandrasekhar, Sudhir K Mishra, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5402 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-93884-2 (Amba P. Kulkarni, Gérard P. Huet eds) pp116-133, 2009
  16. An algorithm for morpho-phonemic processing of Sanskrit, Sachin Kumar, Diwakar Mishra     , Girish Nath Jha, presented by Sachin Kumar & Diwakar Mishra begin_of_the_skype_highlighting      at 3rd National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing, School of Computer and Systems Sciences, JNU, Dec 9, 2008
  17. Architecture of dyna-content web-applications, Girish Nath Jha, invited paper at “Requirement Workshop on Assessment Needs of Website of Animal Sciences, Dairy Science, Education and Research along with Transfer of Technology under NAIP funded AGROWEB Sub-Project (Component-I)”, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Oct 3, 2008
  18. Sanskrit Anaphors, with  Sobha L, Diwakar Mishra     , Surjit K Singh, Praveen Pralayankar, Johansson, C. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (2008), ISSN 1736-6305 Vol. 2, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007
  19. Semantic processing in Panini’s karaka system, Girish N Jha, Sudhir K Mishra, ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf eds) pp 239-252, 2009
  20. Bhaarat men bhasha praudyogiki: ek sarvekshan, Girish N Jha, Diwakar Mani, Diwakar Mishra     , Gaveshana, Kendriya Hindi Sansthana, Agra
  21. A Common Parts-of-Speech Tagset Framework for Indian Languages, Sankaran Baskaran, Kalika Bali, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Monojit Choudhury, Girish Nath Jha, Rajendran S., Saravanan K., Sobha L., KVS Subbarao, LREC 2008 - 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 26-June1, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
  22. Issues in computer processing of languages – a case for Sanskrit, presented at the International Symposium on Brain Cognition & Behavior, jointly organized by Center for Linguistics, SLL&CS, J.N.U. and Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands, March14-15, 2008
  23. Designing a Common POS-Tagset Framework for Indian Languages (co-author with Sankaran Baskaran, Kalika Bali, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Rajendran S, Saravanan K, Sobha L and Subbarao K V), presented (by Kalika Bali) at International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (VI workshop on Asian Language Resources), IIIT, Hyderabad, Jan 11, 2008
  24. Morphological  Analyzer  for  Great  Andamanese  Verbs:  Implementing  a Concatenative Template, co-author with Narayan  Choudhary and  Anvita Abbi, Vishwabharat  (April 2007 ­ January 2008 Journal) 113­-118. TDIL, New Delhi,
  25. Survey of e-content in virtual media: the case of Sanskrit, presented in a national seminar on teaching through e-learning, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Dec29-30,2007
  26. software localization me bhasha sambandhi samasyaem, in Gaveshana, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra, vol88,2007
  27. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, presented at a national seminar on “Relevance of Sanskrit for science and technology” organized by Gandhi Memorial National College, Ambala, Dec 8, 2007
  28. Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf eds) pp 219-238, 2009
  29. Sanskrit e-learning: Grammar-Lexicon, paper presented at "National Seminar on Teaching of Sanskrit through e-learning" organized by NCERT, Aug30, 2007.
  30. Optimality re-investigation of Hindi stress system, Rainbow of Linguistics (Vol I, 2007, pp 72-78), T. Media Publication, 33, College Row, Kolkata-700009 
  31. Indian Theories of Knowledge compared with Western Theories and Artificial Intelligence, appeared in Creative Forum – journal of literary and creative writings (pp-63-76), Vol. 20, No.1, Jan-July2007, Bahri Publications(2006), New Delhi
  32. Localization (l10n) of web-applications: strategies for Hindi/Sanskrit, presented at the Workshop on Localization of e-Governance Applications: Issues & Standards, February 21-22, 2007, Napoleon II, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, organized by MAIT and MCIT  
  33. Knowledge modeling in India: an Artificial Intelligence perspective, accepted for the Indology Journal, International Indology Conference, Goa, Feb8-10, 2007
  34. A Natural Language Interface for Databases,  procs of National Conference in Methods and Models in Computing [NCM2C 2006], School of Computer & Systems Sciences, J.N.U., Dec 2006, Macmillan India Ltd., Delhi, pp75-91
  35. Proposing a System for Identifying Divergent Sentences in Russian-English Machine Translation, co-author with Ainura Asamidinova,  procs of National Conference in Methods and Models in Computing [NCM2C 2006], School of Computer & Systems Sciences, J.N.U., Dec 2006, Macmillan India Ltd., Delhi, pp161-171
  36. Linguistic and cultural challenges for software localization (l10n): the case of Hindi/Sanskrit, presented at a national seminar on Technology development for content creation and Localization in Indian languages, organized by CSTT, MHRD, Govt. of India and RKGIT, Gaziabad at RKG Institute of Technology, Gaziabad, Dec 1, 2006
  37. Hierarchical vs. flat tagsets, presented at Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, 28th October, 2006
  38. Computer applications for Lexicography,  at Central Hindi Institute, Agra, in the workshop on “Hindi dialect dictionary”, Oct 16,2006
  39. Problems in Hindi Computing,  at Central Hindi Institute, Agra, in the workshop on “Hindi dialect dictionary”, Oct 16,2006
  40. Strategies for metrical analysis of Sanskrit text, co-author with Diwakar Mishra     , procs of National Seminar on Perspectives in Linguistics, Kashmir University, Srinagar, 2006
  41. Issues in Sandhi Processing of Sanskrit co-author with Sachin Kumar, presented by Sachin at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  42. Karaka based Sentence validation System,  co-author with S.K. Mishra, presented by S.K.Mishra at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  43. Sanskrit language pedagogy: An e-learning approach , co-author with Priti Bhowmik, presented by Girish N Jha at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  44. Online indexing system for Ashtadhyayi, co-author with Diwakar Mishra     , presented by Diwakar Mishra      at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  45. Verb phrase Analyzer of Great Andamanese , co-author with Narayan Kumar Chaudhary, Anvita Abbi, presented by Narayan at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  46. Strategies for Identifying and Processing Derived Nouns in Sanskrit , co-author with Surjit Kumar Singh, presented by Surjit at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  47. Translating Russian Impersonal Constructions into English: A Study by MT Errors, co-author with  Ainura Asamidinova, P.K. Pandey, abstract published by the 28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  48. Sanskrit Subanta Recognizer and Analyzer for Machine Translation , co-author with Subash, presented by Subash at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  49. Online Indexing of Ādiparva of Mahābhārata , co-author with Diwakar Mani, presented by Diwakar Mani at  28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, 02-04 Nov 2006
  50. Regional and Linguistic perspectives on Internationalization of Web: The case of Hindi/Sanskrit, presented at Summit on Internationalization, organized by W3C and MAIT, at hotel Grand Ashoka, Bangalore, August 24-25, 2006
  51. Towards a Computational Analysis System for Sanskrit, invited paper at The First National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL-06) 31st March - 4th April, 2006 at IIT Bombay, appeared in the procs of the symposium
  52. Computational lexicography and Amarakosha : an online RDBMS approach, National Seminar of Language and Interface, Deptt of Linguistics, Delhi University, March 25, 2006
  53. Language Technology in India: A survey: November 2005 Issue of C.S.I. magazine
  54. A Paninian Sandhi analyzer for Sanskrit, co-author with Sachin(presented by Sachin at Platinum Jubilee International Conference, L.S.I. at Hyderabad University, Hyderabad 6-8 dec,2005)
  55. Morphological analysis of nominal inflections in Sanskrit, co-author with Subash(presented by Subash at Platinum Jubilee International Conference, L.S.I. at Hyderabad University, Hyderabad 6-8 dec,2005)
  56. Karaka analysis of complicated Sanskrit sentences, co-author with Sudhir K Mishra(presented by Sudhir K Mishra at Platinum Jubilee International Conference, L.S.I. at Hyderabad University, Hyderabad 6-8 dec,2005)
  57. Developing a Sanskrit Analysis System for Machine Translation, presented at the National Seminar on Translation Today: state and issues, Deptt. of Linguistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, August 23-25, 2005
  58. Socio-psychological motivations for Maithili-Hindi code switching, procs of the AsiaLex conference at National University of Singapore, Singapore, June1-3, 2005
  59. Information technology applications for Sanskrit lexicography: case of Amarakosha, procs of the AsiaLex conference at National University of Singapore, Singapore, June1-3, 2005
  60. Devanagari on computer: problems and current status, presented at  the Workshop on Hindi support and compatibility for computers at JNU, New Delhi, March31-April1, 2005
  61. Identifying verb inflections in Sanskrit morphology, (with Sudhir Mishra) proceedings of SIMPLE’04, IIT Kharagpur, 2005
  62. IT initiatives for Sanskrit in India, accepted for the Sanskrit conference at Bangkok, Thailand, June 23-36, 2005
  63. Astadhyayi Online, (with Prof. G.V.Singh), Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Language Technology, New Delhi, Nov,2004, Tata McGraw Hill, 2004
  64. A karaka analyzer for Sanskrit (with Sudhir Mishra), Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Language Technology, New Delhi, Nov,2004, Tata McGraw Hill, 2004
  65. Generating nominal inflectional morphology in Sanskrit,   SIMPLE 04, IIT-Kharagpur Lecture Compendium, Shyama Printing Works, Kharagpur, WB, March, 2004
  66. Optimality re-investigation  of Hindi stress system, presented at 30th International conference on Systemic Functional Linguistics, Lucknow, 2003
  67. LexFace: a lexical interface for English-Hindi translation for share-market, South Asian Language Review , Vol. No. XI. P 52-59, New Delhi
  68. The system of Panini, Language  in India, volume4:2 February 2004
  69. Current trends in Indian languages technology Language In India, volume 3:12 December 2003
  70. Jason lives ! The innate horror !! Language in India, volume 3:10 October 2003
  71. A Prolog Analyzer/Generator for Sanskrit Subanta Padas, Language in India, volume 3:11 November 2003
  72. English-SQL interface for databases (with Jerry Morgan, head of the dept of linguistics at U of I, Urbana-Champaign) presented at an international conference on  SALA held at University of Illinois in July 1999
  73. Lexical conceptual structure and domain based machine translation system (with Kapil Kapoor, G.V.Singh) presented at a symposium on Machine Aids for translation & communication, JNU, April11-12 1996)
  74. Proposing a computational system for Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Sanskrit (Proc. of national seminar on “Reorganization of Sanskrit Shastras with a view to prepare their computational database”, January, 1995)
  75. Indian theory of knowledge: an AI perspective (proc. of national seminar on “Inference Mechanisms in Shastras and Computer Science”, Academy of Sanskrit Research, Malcote, Mysore, April, 1994)

Books

  1. "Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections - Methods and Implementaiton", (with Subhash Chandra), Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Feb 2011, UK (ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2684-6 Isbn: 1-4438-2684-7)
  2. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics (ed.), proceedings of the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer Verlag, Germany, 2010 (ISBN 978-3-642-17527-5)
  3. Sanganak-janit vyavaharik Sanskrit dhatu-rupavali,  Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi, 2007

Forthcoming Books

  1. "Origin of Indian Civilizaitons" (joint editor with Angela Mercantonio), proceedings of the "Symposium on Origin of Indian Civilization" held at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July 2011, to be published by Center for Indic Studies and DK Printworld, 2012
  2. Rasaayana-saara: English Translation of the chapter of dhatu shodhana maarana prakarana, with Umesh Kumar Singh and Diwakar Mishra, Vidyanidhi Prakashana, Delhi, 2011
  3. Science And Technology In Ancient Indian Texts (SATIAIT), proceedings of the International Seminar on  Science And Technology In Ancient Indian Texts (SATIAIT), JNU, Jan 9-10, 2010, eds. with Bal Ram Singh, Umesh Kumar Singh, Diwakar Mishra, DK Printworld (2011)
  4. Prachin Sanskrit Kavita – ek jhalak, with Ganga Nath Jha, Vidyanidhi Prakashan, New Delhi (2011)

Contributions to Books

  1. Maithili bhasha (with Dr Sangeeta Kumari),  chapter in the book titled Bharatiya Bhasha Parichay,  Kendriya Hindi Nideshalay, Delhi, 2010
  2. Hindi-English Dictionary of Common Words (Vyavaharik Angrezi-Hindi kosh),    (edit. board),   Central Hindi Directorate. Min. of Human Resource Development, 2006
  3. Early Monsoon, appeared in “The Splendor of Sunrise” (Jessica Rapisarda ed.), 2001, International library of poetry, Watermark press, One Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117, USA
  4. Bhashavijnana paribhasha-kosha,   contributed computational linguistics definitions in this volume published by C.H.D., Edn. deptt. of Min. of HRD, 1999

Membership of Committees

  1. Nominated as Institutional member of the Steering Committee of FLaReNet, European Commission project, Pisa, Italy, Oct 2010 onwards
  2. Nominated as a member of Board of Studies of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha
  3. Nominated as permanent member in the Expert Committee on CLDR, by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India
  4. Nominated to the Indian Language Technologies and Products Sectional Committee (LITD 20) of Bureau of Indian Standards
  5. Nominated member of the PRSG for Speech Technology projects by the Technology Development  for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India
  6. Served as member of the Working Group on Technology Development  for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India, 2007-2009
  7. Nominated member of the Working Group on Localization of Applications & Language Technology Standards, as identified under the National  e-Governance Program (NeGP) of Govt of India
  8. Nominated member of Expert group on Computational Linguistics by Manufacturer’s Association on Information Technology (MAIT) and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India
  9. Nominated member of Managing Committee of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi

Organized Seminar/Workshops

  1. 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium at Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, 10-12 Dec 2010
  2. E-learning and Multimedia for Education, at Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, Nov 3, 2010 (in collaboration with Communication & Information Services, JNU)
  3. 5th ILCI workshop on POS annotation, in collaboration with Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and ISI Kolkata at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 21-23 February, 2011
  4. 4th ILCI workshop on POS annotation, in collaboration with Gujrat University, Ahmedabad, 28-30 Sept, 2010
  5. 3rd ILCI workshop on multilingual parallel corpora building, in collaboration with IIITM-K Trivandrum at Trivandrum, April 9, 2010 
  6. International Seminar on Science & Technology in Ancient Indian Texts (SATIAIT), Jan 9-10, 2010 in collaboration with Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
  7. 2nd ILCI workshop on multilingual parallel corpora building, in collaboration with Dravidian University at Kuppam, AP, 28-29 August, 2009 
  8. 1st ILCI workshop on multilingual parallel corpora building, in collaboration with Goa University at Goa, 25-26 March, 2009 
  9. Meeting On Science & Technology In Ancient Sanskrit Texts in collaboration with Prof. Bal Ram Singh, Director, Indic Studies, Univ Massachusetts, Dartmouth, at Dev Sanskriti Vishva Vidyalaya, Haridvar, 18 june 2009
  10. Workshop on Sanskrit E-Learning And Multimedia for school teachers and students of south Delhi public schools, JNU, May 5,2009
  11. Panchatantra Painting/Sketching Event And Workshop For Children, 14 Nov, 2008
  12. workshop on Hindi Support And Compatibility For Computers with Hindi Unit of  J.N.U., New Delhi, March31-April1, 2005

Sessions chaired

  1. Chaired a session in the "Symposium on Origin of Indian Civilization", Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 8-9 July, 2011
  2. Chaired a session in the "Vedanta and Science Symposium", Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 6-7 July, 2011
  3. Chaired a session on "Civilizational Harmony" in the 8th International conference of the WAVES, at Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies, August 5, 2010
  4. Chaired a plenary session in the "19th International Vedanta Congress", organized by Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July 29, 2010
  5. Chaired a panel discussion on "Sanskrit its evolution and representation in the digital age", in the "19th International Vedanta Congress", organized by Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, July 30, 2010
  6. Chaired a session in “International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution”, organized by AU-KBC, MIT campus, Anna University, Chennai, Jan15-17,2008
  7. Chaired a session on “Computational Linguistics” in the 28th All India Conference of Linguists, Department of Linguistics, BHU, on Nov 4, 2006
  8. Chaired a session in the National Seminar on Translation Today: state and issues, Deptt. of Linguistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, August 23-25, 2005

Workshops

  1. Participated in 4 day workshop on Samasa Tagging at Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha, Bangalore, May 16-19, 2009
  2. Participated in two-day workshop on POS tagging for Sanskrit under the Sanskrit Consortia, organized by Dept. of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, June20-21, 2008
  3. Participated in a series of workshops on editing Hindi-English-Bodo Dictionary, at Central Hindi Directorate during first quarter of 2008
  4. International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution, AU-KBC, MIT campus, Anna University, Chennai, Jan15-17,2008
  5. Review of speech technologies projects, organized by TDIL, MCIT, CDAC- Mumbai, Dec 12, 2007
  6. Indic languages tagset design, a one day workshop organized at Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, Dec 2, 2007
  7. Indic languages tagset design,  a four day workshop organized at Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, March15-18, 2007
  8. Indic languages tagset design,  a three day workshop organized at Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, Jan19-21, 2007
  9. Indic languages tagset design,  a two day workshop organized at Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, 2-3 Dec, 2006
  10. Indic languages tagset design,  a two day workshop organized at Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, 28-29 Oct, 2006
  11. Government @27/7: overcoming contextual & cultural challenges , South Asia e-government summit organized at The Grand, Vasant Kunj, Oct 26, 2006 by DIT, GOI, CDAC, ASIA, OSPA forum

Supervision of Research Students

 

Projects

  1. Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI), as Director and Consortium Leader, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), March, 2009 onwards
  2. Developing Computational Tools For Sanskrit And Sanskrit-Hindi Machine Translation, as Director, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), March 28, 2008 onwards
  3. Online Multilingual Amarakosa (2005-2007):  as Director: funded by JNU under UPOE program of UGC
  4. Database system for dialects of Hindi (2002-2003): as co-director: Under my supervision , a team of software engineers developed a VB-SQL server software for dialect mapping of Hindi, sponsored and run by MGAHU, New Delhi
  5. ALED (Active Living Everyday)  at Human Kinetics, USA: a dynamic content, interactive website for fitness management 2002: project manager and lead programmer
  6. Internationalization project of CollaTech e-solutions using JAVA resource bundles. Project involves making the source code compatible to the multilingual locales and languages, 2001
  7. Database development project at the University of Illinois’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology 1998-1999: database programmer
  8. Analyzing schizophrenic speech at Dept. of Psychology, University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997: research assistant
  9. Developing technical terminology for Hindi (attended a series of workshops organized by Scientific and Technical Terminology Commission, Min of HRD, 1994-1996) and contributed in developing technical terminology for Hindi
  10. Computer Assisted Sanskrit Teaching Learning Environment (DoE sponsored project at JNU 1991-1994): research investigator

Summer Training

Trained students of translation technology from MGAHU, Wardha in Computational linguistics techniques for Machine Translation in 2005

Technical Expertise

  • Machine Translation, computational lexicography computational grammar development, grammar analysis, interactive linguistic instruction, software internalization/localization
  • Natural Language Interface, Attribute Value Grammar (AVG) development, testing, parsing, algorithm implementation
  • Language Technology project management
  • B2B e-commerce solutions,  test drivers in Java Servlet/JSP, AWT/Swing, Apache/Tomcat, JDBC/SQL Server
  • RAD database and web applications, design and development of user interface in the windows/NT environment using Delphi, SQL Server, Interbase
  • project management in software development

Awards / Honors

  • Nominated to the Editorial Board of Springer for their journal Language Resource and Evaluation (LRE) since Feb 2010.
  • Mukesh and Priti Chatter Distinguished Professor of History of Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA since 2009.
  • Evaluated as Exceptional Programmer by the HKUSA software director, 2002
  • Beckman Institute for Advance Science & Technology, University of Illinois Research Assistantship for advanced studies (Illinois, USA) 1998
  • Member of the prestigious Cognitive Science group at the University of  Illinois (USA): 1997-1999
  • Ranked Excellent Teacher twice by students of Hindi at University of Illinois (USA)  :1997,1998
  • University of Illinois  Urbana-Champaign Teaching Assistantship for teaching Hindi language and linguistics to U.S. students: (Illinois, USA) :1997
  • Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Research Assistantship (summer 1997) to study schizophrenic speech (Illinois, USA) 1997

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