I work on processing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar
(CPG) framework, particularly applied to Indian languages. Our team
is building machine translation systems among Indian languages and from
English to Indian languages. I also work on knowledge representation,
information extraction, search engines. I have authored 3 books, and
a number of research papers in NLP and AI.
I have been fortunate to be able to play a major role in shaping a new
research university, namely IIIT Hyderabad. It has research centres but
not departments. It focuses on research, while at the same time looking
to applicability of technologies developed. It promotes research through its unique environment of experimentation and openness. I have developed
and successfully implemented a radical new curriculum in Computer Science and Engg., that promotes research and project work starting from an
early stage at the undergraduate level.
I have helped make human values course a regular part of the academic
curriculum at IIIT-H, where it is playing a major role in shaping the
atmosphere, and relating to larger human and societal concerns.
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I work on parsing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar
(CPG) framework, particularly applied to Indian languages. Our team
is building machine translation systems among Indian languages and from
English to Indian languages. I also work on knowledge representation,
information extraction, search engines. I have authored 4 books, and
a number of research papers in NLP and AI.
I have been fortunate to be able to play a major role in shaping a new
research university, namely IIIT Hyderabad. It has research centres and
not departments. It focuses on research, while at the same time looking
to applicability of technologies developed. It promotes research through
its unique environment of experimentation and openness. I have developed
and successfully implemented a radical new curriculum in Computer Science
and Engg., that promotes research and project work starting from an
early stage at the undergraduate level.
I have helped make human values course a regular part of the academic
curriculum at IIIT-H, where it is playing a major role in shaping the
atmosphere, and relating to larger human and societal concerns.
As the President of NLP Association of India, I have helped organize the
NLP community in India where a high-quality annual conference is running
since 2002. I was a member of the editorial board of Computational
Linguistics, journal of ACL from 2004-06. Earlier I served on the
editorial board of Computer Society of India's journal from 1995-2003.
I referee for COLING, IJCNLP, LREC, ICON and other conferences. I was the
General Chair of ICON series from 2002-2009. I was the local organizing
chair of IJCNLP-08 and IJCAI-07.
I was a member of the Scientific Council of Indo-French Centre for
Promotion of Advanced Research from 1991-1994. I was a member of the
National Review Committee for PG programmes in Engg., India from 1996-98.
I headed the Dept. of Computer Sc. and Engg. at IIT Kanpur from 1987-90,
where I spent 15 years as a faculty member (1982-1998).
Areas of Expertise:
Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Education, Value Education.
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