Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash

Assistant Professor

Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) , Indian Statistical Institute
ADDRESS :
Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
Baranagar, Kolkata - 700 108
West Bengal, India.
Phone(Office): +91-33-2575 3281
Email: niladri@isical.ac.in
Email: ns_dash@yahoo.com
Email: nisedash@gmail.com
This page: http://www.isical.ac.in/~niladri

I am currently working as Assistant Professor in the Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of the Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Education

1983: Passed Madhyamik (Secondary) Examination from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education with 1st Division (Percentage: 62.5%).

1985: Passed Higher Secondary Examination from the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education with 1st Division in Humanities (Percentage: 67.7%) .

1988: Passed BA (Graduation) in English Literature and Language (Honours) from the University of Calcutta with 2nd Class (Percentage: 46 %). College: Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur.
1990: Passed MA (Masters) in Linguistics from the University of Calcutta with 1st Class (First class 2nd in University Rank for the year)(Percentage: 64 %).
1994: Passed Certificate Course in Advanced Natural Language Processing (ANLP) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
2001: Earned Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Calcutta for the thesis entitled Corpus Based Computational Analysis of the Bengali Language.
2002: Passed Certificate Course in Computer Programming with C, C++ from Regional Computer Centre, Govt. of India, Jadavpur University Campus, Kolkata, India (Percentage: 80 %).

Scholarships Received

1985: Awarded National Scholarship by the Govt. of West Bengal, for the years 1985 to 1988.

1986: Awarded Suman Ghosh Memorial Scholarship by Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur for the years 1986 to 1988 for scoring highest marks in Humanities and Social Sciences in the year 1986.

Research Activities

Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology: Generating speech and text corpora, processing corpora, developing tools and techniques for language technology, generation of lexical and linguistic resources, etc.

Natural Language Processing: Machine Learning, Language Recognition, Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Word Sense Disambiguation, etc.

Applied Linguistics: First and Second Language Teaching, Electronic Dictionary, Usage-Based Grammar, Usage-Based Dictionaries, On-line Language Teaching, Graded Vocabulary development, etc.

Mainstream Linguistics: Phonology, Phonetics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, etc.

Consultancies

Text and Speech corpora generation and digitisation

Developing tools and techniques for language processing

Developing tools and systems for language resource generation

Electronic dictionary and thesaurus development

Digitisation of scripts for mobile and telecommunication

Developing tools and techniques for Machine Translation

Developing systems and tools for Word-Sense Disambiguation

Usage-based linguistic resource development

Developing Electronic and On-line Dictionary

Developing graded vocabulary for language teaching

Developing resources for On-line language teaching

Work Experiences in Projects

1992-1995: Acted as Language Analyst in the project Technology Development in Indian Languages funded by the Dept. of Electronics, Govt. of India at the Indian Institute of Applied Language Sciences , Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The goal of the project was to develop electronic text corpora in major Indian languages. My work was to design and develop text corpora of three million words each for Oriya, Bengali, and Assamese; analyse the corpora, develop system for grammatical annotation and part-of-speech tagging. The project completed in April 1995.

1992-1995: Acted as Language Analyst in the project Language and Culture of Orissa: a State of India , funded by the Dept. of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, at the Indian Institute of Applied Language Sciences, Orissa. The goal of the project was to study empirically the folk-language and folk-culture of Orissa. My work was to classify and analysis the databases and draw inferences. The project completed in March 1995.

1995-2000: Acted as Co-Investigator in the project Natural Language Processing in Bengali at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. My work was to develop a Bengali text corpus, process it, and extract relevant data and information for developing a modern Bengali dictionary in electronic version. The project completed in March 2000.

2000-2003: Acted as Co-Investigator in the project Indian Language Technology Solutions-Bengali funded by the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India, executed at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. My work was to develop strategies for POS-tagging, lexical sorting, frequency distribution calculation, and lexical database generation. The project completed in March 2003.

2001-2004: Acted as Co-Investigator in the project Sharing Capability in Localisation and Human Language Technologies , funded by the ASI@IT&C of the European Commission . My work was to guide the South Asian scholars engaged in corpus development and processing. The project completed in September 2004.

2003-2005: Acted as Co-Investigator in the project Natural Language Processing in Bengali at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. My work was to augment corpus databases, process it, define spelling variation of words, design system for POS tagging, concordance, lexical collocation, and lemmatisation. The Project completed in March 2005.

2003-2006: Acted as External Expert in the project African Diaspora in Asia funded by International Scientific Research Network and executed at the University of Rondonia , Brazil. My work was to guide in collection of relevant linguistic text materials necessary for analysis and interpretation. The Project completed in 2006.

2005-2007: Acted as Co-Investigator in the project Generation and Processing of the Bengali Text Corpus at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. My works involved text corpus sanitation and processing, electronic dictionary development, usage-based language resource generation, and word-sense disambiguation. The project ended in March 2007.

2007-2010: Acted as Co-Investigator in a project entitled Generation of Differentiated Electronic Lexicon for Bangla at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The purpose of this project was to develop a Differentiated Electronic Lexicon in Bengali as an indispensable resource for research and application in language technology, natural language processing, machine translation, information extraction, word-sense disambiguation, semantic net, ontology, language teaching, discourse analysis, lexical semantics, and language cognition. The project completed in March 2010.

2008-2011: Acting as Co-Investigator in a project Interlexical Study of Assamese and Boro Nominal Items at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. This project seeks to carry out substantivist lexicography of the nominals in Assamese and Boro with special reference to the role of the classifiers in helping to specify the nominal subcategorisations. The project builds on existing comparative work on Bengali and Assamese and current substantivist lexicographic research on Bengali - a research paradigm that will be extended to other North Eastern languages. The project is scheduled to complete in March 2011.

2008-2011: Acting as Co- Principal Investigator in a project Knowledge-Based Documentation and Archiving of Bangla Electronic Language Resources carried out at the Institute of Cybernetics Systems and Information Technology, Kolkata. This project is funded by Bhasa Prayukti Gabesana Parisad (Society for the Natural Language Technology Research), Govt. of West Bengal, India. The project is scheduled to be complete in 2011.

2009-2011: Acting as Chief Investigator for development of digital parallel corpora in modern Bengali in the project Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) carried out at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The project is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India. The project is scheduled to complete in March 2011.

Past Achievements (1992-2010)

Developed an Electronic Dictionary of Modern Bengali. It contains nearly 60 thousand words with information of orthography, part-of-speech, meaning, synonyms, and usage of each entry word. The dictionary is used to develop an electronic Bengali-English bilingual dictionary and software for automatic correction of spelling errors of Bengali words.

Designed and developed a Written Bengali Corpus of one million words by way of collecting data from various printed documents published within 1991 and 1995. The corpus is merged with the TDIL Corpus (also designed and developed by me) for better representation of the modern Bengali written language.

Systematically defined Linguistic Rules for Automatic Processing of Bengali Verbs. The rules are implemented for developing a morphological processing system for Bengali verbs.

Collected all English Words from the Bengali Text Corpus. The entire lexical database is numerically and alphabetically sorted out and stored in electronic form to develop a dictionary of English words in Bengali.

Complied information about Frequency of Use of Bengali Letters, Graphemes, Allographs, Diacritics, and other Symbols from the Corpus. Information is used for developing software for Optical Character Recognition in Bengali.

Complied information about Frequency of Use of Words and Morphemes in the Bengali corpus. Information is used for designing automatic spelling checking and information retrieval system for Bengali.

Defined exhaustive set of Utterance Rules for Bengali Words. The rules are used for developing software for automatic text-to-speech conversion in Bengali.

Collected a large list of examples about the Use of Punctuation Marks in the Bengali corpus. The database is analysed to study the form and function of punctuation marks in the language. The information is used to develop tools for word processing, sentence parsing, and language teaching in Bengali.

Collected a large database of Bengali Words with Spelling Variations. The entire database is used to design automatic spelling checking system in Bengali.

Developed a Tagged Corpus of Hundred Thousand Words . Each word is tagged at the lexical level with lexico-syntactic information embedded in the function expressed in sentences. The database is used for morphological processing and sentence parsing in Bengali.

Collected a list of Polysemous Words with their Contexts of Occurrence from the Bengali corpus. Examples are analysed for designing systems for word sense disambiguation. Based on the information and analysis of the database, proposed AIMS Model for sense disambiguation of Bengali polysemous words.

Analysed linguistic and technical issues involved in developing system for Corpus-Based Machine Translation from English to Bengali in case of domain-specific and controlled texts.

Proposed Corpus Assisted Language Teaching method for teaching English to the Bengali learners. This model is effectively useful for both First Language Teaching and Second Language Teaching.

Proposed a model for Corpus-Based Dialect Study with reference to information and data obtained from dialect corpora. Is suited in Indian context where multiple dialects are on the verge of extinction. This model helps the nearly-extinct dialects to retain their identity and helps dialectologists to develop electronic dialect archives for future utilisation.

Developed a model for Usage-Based Grammar in Bengali. It extracts heavily from data and information of the modern Bengali text corpus. This model is suited for developing a modern Bengali grammar longed for ages.

Proposed and developed a model for teaching English as second language in West Bengal, India. The model is known as SHELL (Self Help English Language Learning) system, which works exceedingly well for the primary Bengali language learners who are learning Englsih without assistance of any kind from parents and teachers

Present Works (From 2010 ...)

Defining linguistic rules and strategies for automatic processing of Bengali nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, postpositions and other words found in the Bengali text corpus.

Compiling an English-Bengali dictionary of words, idiomatic expressions, set phrases and lexical collocations to be used as translation equivalents in case of manual and machine translation.

Analysing various types of suffixes used with Bengali words to generate a suffix database to be used in automatic POS tagging of Bengali words.

Compiling an Electronic Pronunciation Dictionary for Bengali with information of transcription and phonetic representation . It contains nearly 5000 words with transcription in Indic Roman , International Phonetic Alphabet , and in Bengali script .

Working on a model for using information obtained from Bengali text corpus to develop a Usage-Based Electronic Dictionary in Bengali .

Working on a model for using information collected from the Bengali corpus to develop a Usage-based Bengali Grammar .

Working on a model for acquiring lexical database of most frequently used lexical items of modern Bengali to develop Graded Vocabulary for primary Bengali learners .

Working on a model for lemmatisation of inflected and affixed words in Bengali to generate a lexical database of lemmas for the works of applied linguistics, language technology, and language teaching.

As a part of my social responsibility, started publishing about various issues and aspects of Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Language Technology in Bengali to serve the Bengali speech community.

Future Plans ...

Generation of Speech and Text Corpora in the Indian languages.

Generation of Learners' Corpora in the Indian languages.

Development of Language and Text Processing Tools in the Indian languages.

Generation of Bilingual Lexical Databases in English and Indian languages.

Development of Corpus-Based Machine Translation system from English to Bengali.

Development of Usage-Based Online Dictionary in the Indian languages.

Development of Electronic Language Resources in the Indian languages.

Development of Usage-Based Grammars in the Indian languages.

Development of Resources for On-line Language Teaching in the Indian languages.

Development of Lexical Lesources for the Indian languages.

Analysis of language corpora of Indian Languages to develop linguistic theories. .

Development of a Digital National Archive for the Indian Languages.

Development of a full-fledged system of SHELL (Self Help English Language Learning) with text books and study materials.

Publications

(A) AUTHORED BOOKS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology: With Reference to Indian Languages . New Delhi: Mittal Publications. (ISBN: 81-8324-033-X. 465 pages. Rs. 895/- (80 USD). The book is available at: http://www.mittalbooks.com

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) Bhasangsha Sangraha O Adhunik Bhasabijnan (Language Corpora and Modern Linguistics) . Kolkata: Dakshabharati.[296 Pages. Rs. 240/-].

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) Bahuripi Bangla Banan (Multifaceted Bengali Spelling) . Kolkata: Dakshabharati. [132 Pgs. Rs. 60/-].

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Language Corpora and Applied Linguistics . Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. [ISBN: 81-7955-122-9 [270+ pages, Rs. 150/- (India), USD 60 (Foreign)]. The book is available at: http://www.samsadbooks.com

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction . New Delhi: Pearson Education. [ISBN: 8131716031. Pages 208+ (HB), Price: Rs. 499/-]. The book is available at: http://www.pearsoned.co.in

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) Corpus-based Analysis of the Bengali Language . Saarbrucken, Germany: Verlag Dr Muller Publications. [ISBN: 978-3-639-05-774-4. Pp. 246+ (PB). Price: USD 50].

Dash, Niladri Sekhar(2009) Language Corpora: Past, Present and Future . New Delhi: Mittal Publications. Rs. 495/-. The book is available at: http://www.mittalbooks.com.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Modern Bengali Script: An Introduction. Kolkata: Daksha Bharati [ISBN: 81-89803-07-7. Pp.235+ (PB). Price: Rs.200/- (India) and USD 60 (Foreign)]

(B) EDITED VOLUMES:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Probal Dasgupta, and Pabitra Sarkar (Eds.) (2007) Rainbow of Linguistics: Vol-I . Kolkata: T. Media Publication. ISBN: 81-89802-01-1, 175+ pages, Rs. 170/- (India), USD 30 (Foreign)].

Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Probal Dasgupta, and Pabitra Sarkar (Eds.) (2007) Rainbow of Linguistics: Vol-II . Kolkata: T. Media Publication. [ISBN: 81-89802-02-X, 150+ Pages, Rs. 150/-(India), USD 25(Foreign)].

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (Ed.) (2010) Memorable Sayings: A Book of Quotable Quotes. Kolkata: Daksha Bharati. [ISBN: 81-89802-04-6. Pp. 280+ (PB). Price: Rs. 200/- (India and Bangladesh, USD 60 (Foreign Countries)].

(C) LITERARY CREATIVE WORKS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) Pralapgatha (A Collection of Bengali Poems). Kolkata: Parashpathar Prakashan. [Pg. 60; Price: Rs. 40/-].

SOME COMMENTS ON THE BOOK (DASH 2005) BY EXPERTS:

(a)"Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology by Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash is one of the first of its kind. The very important field of corpus linguistics which is making statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing a reality has been dealt with admirable depth and breath in this book. The scholarly treatment or morphology and basics of corpus are valuable material for any language processing course. I have referred to this book in my course on Natural Language Processing and found the chapter on statistical analysis of corpus especially helpful. I would strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the corpus oriented treatment of computational linguistics" - Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Email: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in

(b) "I have read the book 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' and have found it extremely useful. I have recommended it to many NLP researchers and postgraduate students of Linguistics. It is a result of careful research, and indeed an important contribution to corpus and computational linguistics in the Indian context" - Prof. B.N. Patnaik, Former Professor of Linguistics and English, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and presently, Senior Fellow, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Email: patnaik@iitk.ac.in

(c) "I have read the book entitled 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' (2005) and find it quite useful. Now and then, I, as well as my students, use it as a reference book for Natural Language Processing (NLP) works. It is a good contribution to the area of Corpus and Computational Linguistics in Indian context. Available works in English are too technical and hard to follow by Indian students. But its lucid and simple style induces interest in this green area. Pleased with this work, we thought it fit to be recommended as a text book in our University for MA (Applied Linguistics) and M. Phil. (Computational Linguistics) students. I expect similar works from Dr. Dash in future" - Prof. N. Deiva Sundaram, Director, Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, University of Madras, Chennai, India. Email: ndsundaram@hotmail.com

(d) "I have read the book 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' with interest and found it quite useful. Now and then, I, as well as my students, use it as a reference book on Natural Language Processing. With its broad coverage and elaborate discussions, it is a good contribution to the area of corpus and computational linguistics in the Indian context" - Prof. Gautam Sengupta, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. Email: gsghyd@gmail.com

(e) "I have read 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' (2005) and found it extremely informative to fulfil the need of my students. I consider it as a very good reference book. I have translated the entire book into Tamil and give it as a reference material for my students. I have read the book several times as it has a wide coverage starting from earlier field work oriented corpus linguistics to the present day computer oriented corpus linguistics. It tells me the building of corpus, the characteristic features of corpus, conceptual classification of corpus, corpus analysis for mainstream linguistics, corpus for machine translation and so forth. It is extremely useful to me and is a good contribution to the area of corpus and computational linguistics in Indian context. It is the need of the day. I wish he will write books of such standard in future too" - Prof. S. Rajendran, Head, Dept. of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur, India. Email: raj_ushush@yahoo.com

(f) "The book 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' deals with corpus linguistics not only from a linguists� viewpoint but also takes care of the language technology aspect as well. What impressed me most is the coverage of the book, its lucid style of writing and its handling of the language technology aspect. It is this area where the book is most useful. This book will certainly help us to develop human resources who will act as computational linguists in the truest sense of the term. I am currently using this book for teaching NLP to my postgraduate as well as my Ph.D. students" - Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Email: sbandyopadhyay@cse.jdvu.ac.in

(g) "The book 'Corpus Linguistics and Language technology' written by Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash is the first empirical research on Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology with their reference to Indian languages. The book deals with the basic issues like how to generate a written corpus, how to process it, and the procedures of corpus analysis. The chapter 'Morphological Processing' is very important and useful for the researchers working on corpus linguistics where he deals with the processing of both inflected and non-inflected words. The last two chapters 'Corpus in Linguistic Studies' and 'Corpus in Machine Translation' make the work overall complete. The most important fact is to say here that the book deals with Indian linguistic databases. The researchers from all the branches like phonetics, phonology, morphology, etc, including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing will be beneficial from the work. The melodious and lucid language of the book drags the readers towards the content. In my opinion, this book makes valuable contribution on the area of Language Technology and Corpus Linguistics in Indian perspective. The book has all the resources and information to be used as a course and/or reference book at postgraduate levels in Indian universities and research institutions. I hope to find many more books of same potential from Dr. Dash in future for the benefit of Indian linguistics at large" - Dr. Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Senior research Officer (L), Office of the Registrar General, India, Language Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.

(h) "Dear Niladri Sekhar Dash, I have read your book 'Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology' which I appreciate a lot. I think it is a standard work written mainly for people working in South Asia or/and on South Asian languages." Claus Peter Zoller, Institute for Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway, Email: peter_zoller@yahoo.com and c.p.zoller@ikos.uio.no.

A REVIEW OF THIS BOOK (DASH 2006):

"This is the most complete book on Corpus Linguistics ever written in Bengali. The author deserves thanks from the Bengali Linguistic community for this pioneering work. There is no doubt that the book has all the credentials to be widely accepted in the world of Bengali linguistic research and investigation." Desh 17th April 2006, Pp. 97-98..

(D) PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REVIEWED JOURNALS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (1997) "Computer parsing of Bangla verbs" . Linguistics Today . Vol. 1. No.1. Pp. 64-86.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (1998) "Bangla script: a structural study" . Linguistics Today . Vol. 1. No.2. Pp. 1-28.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1999) "Corpus oriented Bangla language processing" . Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy . Vol. 11. No. 1. Pp. 1-28.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2000) "The process of designing a multidisciplinary monolingual sample corpus" . International Journal of Corpus Linguistics . Vol.5. No. 2. Pp. 179-197.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2000) "Bangla pronouns: a corpus based study" . Literary and Linguistic Computing . Vol.15. No. 4. Pp. 433-443.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) "Application of corpus in language teaching and research" . Journal of Applied Linguistic Research . Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 69-82.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2001) "A corpus based study of the Bangla language" . Indian Journal of Linguistics . Vol.20. No.1. Pp. 19-40.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2002) "Corpus generation and text processing" . International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics . Vo. 31. No. 1. Pp. 25-44.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) "Lexical polysemy in Bengali: a corpus based study" . PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies . Vo. 12. No. 1-2. Pp. 203-214.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2003) "Relevance of corpus in language research and application" . International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics . Vol. 32. No. 2. Pp. 101-122.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) "Corpus linguistics in India: present scenario and future direction" . Indian Linguistics . Vol. 64. No. 1-4. Pp. 85-113.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) "Corpus typology: conceptual categorisation" . Indian Journal of Linguistics . Vol. 22. Pp. 27-40.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) "Use of language corpora in second language learning" . South Asian Language Review . Vol. 13. Pp. 1-26. http://www.salr.org/.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Frequency and function of characters used in the Bangla text corpus" . Literary and Linguistic Computing . Vol. 19. No. 2. Pp. 145-159.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Calculating the frequency of use of characters in the Bangla corpus" . Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics . Vol. 30. No. 1. Pp. 43-65.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Morphological processing of words in Bangla corpus" . Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics . Vol. 30. No. 2. Pp. 63-83.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Issues involved in the development of a corpus based machine translation system" . International Journal of Translation . Vol. 16. No. 2. Pp. 57-79.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Text annotation: a prologue to corpus processing" . Indian Journal of Linguistics . Vol. 23. No. 1. Pp. 71-82.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "The role of context in sense variation: introducing corpus linguistics in Indian contexts" . Language In India . Vo. 5. No. 6. Pp. 1-28.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Corpus based machine translation across Indian languages: from theory to practice" . Language In India . Vol. 5. No. 7. Pp. 1-24.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "A brief historical survey on the use of handmade language databases in linguistic studies" . Language Forum . Vol. 31. No. 1. Pp. 17-39.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Role of context in word sense disambiguation" . Indian Linguistics . Vol. 66. No. 1-4. Pp. 159-175.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Methods in madness of Bengali spelling: a corpus based empirical investigation" . South Asian Language Review . Vol. 14. No. 2. Pp. 63-92.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Some limitations of corpus based language study" . Language In India . Vol. 6. No. 3. Pp. 1-32.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "The morphodynamics of Bengali compounds: decomposing them for lexical processing" . Language In India . Vol. 6. No. 7. Pp. 1-25.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Differences between text and speech corpora with regard to content, nature, annotation, and utilisation" . Indian Linguistics . Vol. 67. Nos. 1-4. Pp. 65-82.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Some techniques used for processing Bengali corpus to meet new demands of linguistics and language technology" . SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics . Vol. 4. No. 2. Pp. 12-31.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Generating electronic lexical resources from text corpora in Bengali" . Indian Linguistics . Vol. 68. No. 3-4. Pp. 361-371.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Frequency-based analysis of words and morphemes in Bengali text corpus" Indian Journal of Linguistics . Vol. 25-26. Pp. 223-253.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Toward lemmatization of Bengali words for building language technology resources". South Asian Language Review . Vol. 17. No. 2. Pp. 1-15.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Corpus linguistics: an empirical approach for studying a natural language". Language Forum. . Vol. 34. No. 2. Pp. 1-21.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Context and contextual word meaning". SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. . Vol. 5. No. 2. Pp. 21-31.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Bengali matrimonial classifieds: some sociolinguistic cues to marital orientation". Language Forum . Vol. 35. No. 2. Pp. 34-52.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Relevance of electronically developed dialect corpora in dialectology". Indian Linguistics . Vol. 70. No, 1-4. Pp. 91-101.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Corpus linguistics: a time-tested strategy for studying a natural language". Language Forum . Vol. 35. No. 2. July-Dec. Pp. 7-20.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Payel Dutta Chowdhury and Abhisek Sarkar (2009) "Naturalization of English words in modern Bengali: a corpus-based empirical study". Language Forum . Vol. 35. No. 2. July-Dec., Pp. 129-144.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for manual and machine Translation". SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 7. No. 2. Pp. 2-18.

(E) PAPERS PUBLISHED IN EDITED VOLUMES:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Corpus linguistics: an introduction" . In, Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski and Lelija Socanac (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems . Oxford: EoLSS Publishers (On behalf of UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee, UNESCO, SC/AP-1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, France). Pp. 110-159.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "The art of lexicography" . In, Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski and Lelija Socanac (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems . Oxford: EoLSS Publishers (On behalf of UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee, UNESCO, SC/AP-1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, France). Pp. 225-276.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Indian scenario in language corpus generation" . In, Dash, Niladri Sekhar; Probal Dasgupta, and Pabitra Sarkar (Eds.) Rainbow of Linguistics: Vol-I. Kolkata: T. Media Publication. Pp. 129-162.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Techniques of text corpus processing" . In, Mohanty, Panchanan and Reinhard Kohler (Eds.) Readings in Quantitative Linguistics. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies. Pp. 81-115.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Linguistic works in Bengali (2001-2007): a brief review" . In, Singh, Rajendra (Ed.) Annual Review of South Asian Language and Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 217-235.

(F) PAPERS PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE PRICEDINGS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (1998) "Utterance Rules for Bangla Words and their Computer Implementation" . In the Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Linguistics, Speech, and Document Processing (ICCLSDP-1998) . Vol. 1. Part-C. Pp. 51-58.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2001) "Corpus-based Empirical Analysis of Form, Function, and Frequency of Characters used in Bangla" . In, Rayson, P., A. Wilson, T. McEnery, A. Hardie, and S. Khoja (Eds.) In the Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2001 Conference . Vol.13. Pp. 144-157, 2001. Lancaster: Lancaster University Press.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar and someone (2003) "Using Text Corpora for Understanding Polysemy in Bangla". In IEEE Proceedings of the Language Engineering Conference, Hyderabad Central University, 13-15th November 2002. Pp. 99-109.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Language Corpora: Present Indian Need" . In the Proceedings of the SCALLA 2004 Working Conference (Crossing the Digital Divide Shaping Technologies to Meet Human Needs), Kathmandu, Nepal, 5th-7th January 2004.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Corpus Based Study of Lexical Polysemy in Bangla for Application in Language Technology" . In the Proceedings of the SIMPLE-04: Symposium on Indian Morphology, Phonology and Language Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Pp. 70-74, 19th-21st March 2004.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "The Role of Context in Sense Variation: From Evidence to Theorisation" . In the Proceedings of the International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-6), Dept. of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 6th-8th January 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Corpus based Machine Translation: A Robust Approach to Machine Translation" . In the Proceedings of the International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-6), Dept. of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 6th-8th January 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "A Brief Sketch on the Techniques of Text Corpus Processing" . In the Proceedings of the UGC-SAP International Symposium on Linguistics, Quantification, and Computation, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Central University, Hyderabad, 9th-11th March 2005. Pp. 63-89.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Relevance of Corpora in First Language Teaching in India". In the Proceedings of the 27th All India Conference of Linguists, CALTS, Hyderabad, 6th-8th December 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "The Process of Lemmatisation of Inflected and Affixed Words in the Bengali Text Corpus". In the Proceedings of 28th All India Conference of Linguists (28-AICL), Dept. of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2nd-5th November 2006. Pp. 127-128.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) Relevance of dialect corpora (electronic) in dialectology. In the Proceedings of the International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-2008), Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, 6-9th January, 2008. Pp. 47-62.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Usage based linguistics: a new horizon of language study". In the Proceedings of the In-Service Teacher Training Programme on Bengali , MHRD, Govt. of India (A CTE Publication) , Vol. 16. Pp. 12-36.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Some new approaches to second language learning" . In Proceedings of the In-Service Teacher Training Programme on English , MHRD, Govt. of India. (A CTE Publication), Vol. 15. Pp. 3-13.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Some introductory remarks on corpus linguistics". Presented at National Workshop on Indian Language Corpora Initiative. 25th March 2009. Dept. of Computer Scinece, Goa University, Goa, India

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Some methods for standardization of translation corpora in Indian languages". Presented in the 2nd Workshop on Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI-2). 28th August 2009. Dept. of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics. Dravidian University, Kuppam, AP, India.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Exploring the patterns of usage and utterance variations of Bengali consonant clusters for linguistics applications". Presented in the 31st All India Confrence of Linguists (AICL-2009). 15th-17th December, 2009. Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, AP. India. Pp. 171-172.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for machine translation". Presented in the 31st All India Conference of Linguists (AICL-2009). 15th-17th December 2009. Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, AP, India. Pp. 173-174.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Language of adult jokes: linguistics and beyond". Presented in the National Seminar on World Within Words: Socio-cultural Correlates Across Indian Languages. 5th-6th February 2010. Centre for Comparative Study of Indian Languages and Cultures. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Utilization of language corpora in compilation of digital dictionaries for the Indic languages". Presented in the International Seminar on Tamil Computing. 24th-26th February 2010. Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Translation corpora and machine-aided translation". Presented in the National Seminar on Translating Knowledge Texts: Nuances and Observations. 10th March 2010. Dept. of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India).

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Strategies for translating Hindi tourism and medical texts into Bengali". Presented in the 3rd Workshop of the Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI-2010). 9th April 2010. International Institute of Information Technology and Management, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

(G) PAPERS PUBLISHED IN BENGALI JOURNALS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) "Bhasangsha bhasatattva: bhasabijnaner natun diganta" . Ababhas . Vo. 2. No. 2. Pp. 36-62.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) "Bahudharthak shabder prakrita pratibeshik artha nirupan" . Sahitya Parisad Patrika . Vol. 109. No. 1-2. Pp. 145-174.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Upabhasa charchay prak-baidyutin bhasa-namunar byabahar" . Sahitya Mela . Vol. 27. No. 1. Pp. 31-43.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Bhasangsha nirman" . Bangla Bai . Vo. 61. Pp. 1-4.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Bangla likhita bhasangshe bananer byabahar baichitra" . Sahitya Parisat Patrika . Vol. 110. No. 4. Pp. 166-192.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Shabder artha o pratibesh" . Bhasa . Vol. 7. No. 1. Pp. 80-95.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Upabhasa: svatantrer sankat o svaruper sandhan" . Sahitya Parisad Patrika . Vol. 112. No. 1-2. Pp. 37-48.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Bhasaprayukti: bharater chalchitra o Banglar mukh" . Bangla Bai . Vo. 2. Pp. 1-3.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Bhasaprayukti o Bangla bhasa" ". Computer Jagat . Vol. 1. No. 3-4. Pp. 2-10.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Sadharan Bangla likhita bhasangsha nirman: paddhati o prakaran" . Binirman . Vol. 3. No. 4. Pp. 35-62.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Lokabhasar gabesanay bhashansher prasangikata" . Loukik . Vol. 1. No. 2. Pp. 32-51.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Baidyutin Bangla abhidhan nirman paddhati" . Computer Jagat . Vol. 2. No. 1-12, January to December 2008.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Bhasaprayukti: kaler kallol kimba pragatir patha nirdeshika" . Image (Journal of the Women�s Christian College, Kolkata). Vol. 2. No. 1. Pp. 28-47.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Baidyutin abhidhaner byabahargata subidha" . Binirman . Vol. 5. No. 1. Pp. 19-28.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Bangla bhasar baidyutin shabdabhandar nirman" . Computer Jagat . Boimela Sankhya. Pp.15-44.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Bangla bhasa prakriyakaran" . Computer Jagat . February to December 2007.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Bangla bhasar sudin asche" Medha . Vol. 2. No.2. Pp. 88-94.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Yaticihner bhasatattvik bhumika o byabaharik guruttva" . Sahitya Parisad Patrika. . Vol. 114. No. 1-2. Pp. 67-76.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Bangla bhasar bhabisyat" . Alochana Chakra . Vol. 25. Pp. 191-201.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Banglay bhasaprayuktir kajer janya Bangla bhashansha chai" . Computer Jagat . Boimela Sankhya. Pp. 27-45.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Bangla banaer be-thim baro-iyari" . Alochana Chakra . Vol. 26. Pp. 14-25.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Bangla bhasar baidyutin likhita bhasangsha sanskar" . Computer Jagat . Baimela Sankhya. Vol. 4. Pp. 63-73.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Bangla bhasay bhasa-prayukti" . Alochana Chakra . Vol. 27. Pp. 35-50.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Byabahar-bhittik Bangla Byakaran: Sambhyatar Bastabata" . Alochana Chakra (Special Issue on Linguistics). Vol. 28. Pp. 133-177.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) "Bhasansher Sahayye Shabder Prakrita Artha Uddhar Kakar Upay". In, Anupam Basu, Tirthankar Dasgupta and Sibansu Mukhopadhyay (Eds.) Bhasa-Prayukti . Kolkata: Society for the Natural Language Technology Research. Pp. 71-88.

(H) TECHNICAL REPORTS:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1998) "Capturing the utterance peculiarities of Bengali words in computer" . CVPR Unit's Technical Report . TR/ISI/CVPR/04/1998. Pp. 1-32.

(I) BOOK REVIEW PAPERS PUBLISHED IN JOURNLS :

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1999) Review of D. Biber, S. Conrad, and R. Reppen (1998) Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Linguist List. Vol-10-1923. Mon. Jun 15 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 10.1923.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) Review of S.P. Botley, A.M. McEnery, and A. Wilson (Eds.) (2000) Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research. Rodopi: Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA. Linguist List. Vol-11-2537. Sat. Nov 25 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 11.2537.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of Y. Ravin and C. Leacock (Eds.) (2000) Polysemy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Linguist List. Vol-12-1111. Mon. Apr. 23 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.1111.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of P. Bouillon and F. Busa (Eds.) (2001) The Language of Word Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Linguist List. Vol-12-1573. Fri. Jun. 15 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.1573.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of Keith Allan (2001) Natural Language Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Linguist List. Vol-12-1709. Mon. Jul 2 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.1709.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of Sidney I. Landau (2001) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Linguist List. Vol-12-2156. Tue. Sep 4 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.2156.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of Nirit Kadmon (2001) Formal Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Linguist List. Vol-12-2319. Thu 20 Sep 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.2319.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) Review of H. Cuyckens and B. Zawada (Eds.) (2001) Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 1997. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 177. Linguist List. Vol-12-2745. Fri Nov 2 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.2745.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) Review of Edda Weigand and M. Dascal (Eds.) (2001) Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 214. Linguist List. Vol-13-41. Wed, 9 Jan 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 13.41.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) Review of Margaret Selting, and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.) (2001) Studies in Interactional Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10. Linguist List. Vol-13-1645. Tue Jun 11 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 13.1645.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) Review of L. Litosseliti and J. Sunderland (Eds.) (2002) Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 2. Linguist List. Vol-14-80. Fri Jan 10 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.80.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) Review of A-B. Stenstrom, G. Andersen, and I. K. Hasund (2002) Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus Compilation, Analysis and Findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Studies in Corpus Linguistics 8. Linguist List. Vol-14-1736. Thu Jun 19 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.1736.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) Review of Balaichand Haldar (2003) Daimand Harbar anchaler Bangla Upabhasa. Kolkata: Pustak Bipani. BAnglA BOi. 60: 8-9, 2003.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of J. E. Diaz Vera (Eds.) (2002) A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics. Amsterdam-New York, NY: Rodopi. Costerus New Series 141. Linguist List. Vol-15-605. Sun Feb 15 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 15.605.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of Philip Humble (2001) Dictionaries and Language Learners. Munich: Haag und Herchen. Linguist List. Vol-15-1011. Fri Mar 26 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 15.1011.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of Eckardt, E., K. V. Heusinger, and C. Schwarze (Eds.) (2003) Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Linguist List. Vol-15-2770. Mon Oct 04 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 15.2770.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of Julie Coleman and Christian J. Kay (Eds.) (2002) Lexicology, Semantics, and Lexicography. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Language. Vol. 80. No. 2. Pp. 341-342.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of M. Ghadessy, A. Henry and R. L. Roseberry (Eds.) (2001) Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and Practice. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Language. Vol. 80. No. 2. P. 346.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) Review of Sukumar Sen (2003) Butpatti-Siddhartha Banglakos. Kolkata: Paschim Banga Bangla Akademi. Bangla Boi. Vol. 66. Pp. 1-3.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of R.R.K. Hartmann (Ed.) (2003)Lexicography: Critical Concepts. Volume I. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group). Linguist List. Vol-16-2154. Wed Jul 13 2005. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 16.2154.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of R.R.K. Hartmann (Ed.) (2003) Lexicography: Critical Concepts. Volume II. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group). Linguist List. Vol-16-2155. Wed Jul 13 2005. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 16.2155.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar(2005) Review of R.R.K. Hartmann (Ed.) (2003) Lexicography: Critical Concepts. Volume III. London and New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group). Linguist List. Vol-16-2156. Wed Jul 13 2005. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 16.2156.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of Paroo Nihalni, R. K. Tongue, Priya Hosali, and Jonathan Crowther (Eds.) (2004) Indian and British English: A handbook of Usage and Pronunciation. 2nd Edition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. To appear in Language.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of M.A.K. Halliday, Wolfgang Teubert, Colin Yallop and Anna Cermakova (2004) Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Continuum. To appear in Langauge.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of Harry Bunt, John Carroll and Giorgio Satta (Eds.) (2004) New Developments in Parsing Technology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. To appear in Language.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of Biplab Dasgupta (2004) Bangali Jati O Bangla Bhasa : Prak-Aupanibeshik Parba. Kolkata: Dey's Publishing. Bangla Bai. September 2005. Pp. 6-8.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of Stekauer, Pavol (2005) Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, Context-free Naming Units (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 54). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Linguist List. Vol-16-3402. Mon Nov 28 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875. Subject: 16.3402.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) Review of Ramaprasad Das (2004) Kathay Kathay Lajik. Kolkata: Bangla Akademi. Bangla Bai . December 2005. Pp. 7-8.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) Review of Ashoke Kumar De (1995) Aitihasik Shabdartha Tattva: Ekti Mulyayan. Kolkata: Tridip Prakashani. Vinirman. Januray 2006.3(4): 65-70.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Bhasar Adhikarer Prashne". Review of Nitish Biswas (2004) Bangla Bhasa O Bharater Sambidhan. Kolkata: Aikatan. Bangla Bai. January-February, Pp. 15-16, 2006.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "Sanskrit Byakaraner Rahasya Sandhane". Review of Karunasindhu Das (2005) Sanskrit Byakaran O Bhasa Prasanga. Kolkata: Sadesh. Bangla Bai . July, Pp. 4-5, 2006.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Review of Mohit Chakrabarti Rabindranath Tagore: Songs of Prayer (2006): New Age Books, New Delhi (ISBN: 81-7822-283-3 South Asian Language Review , January 2008, Vol. 18. No. 1. Pp. 109-110.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Review of Shishir Bhattacharja, Word Formation in Bengali: A Whole Word Morphological Description and its Theoretical Implications, (2007): (Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2007, ixx+ 454, ISBN: 9783895863561). In: Rajendra Singh (Ed.) Annual Review of South Asian Language and Linguistics,South Asian Language Review , 2009, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 199-206.

Paper presented in Conferences, Seminars, etc....

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1993) "Potentials of Language Corpus" . Presented in the National Seminar on Corpus Generation in Indian Languages. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 4th-6th August 1993.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1994) "Corpus Generation and Text Processing" . Presented in the International Workshop of Advanced Natural Language Processing (IWANLP-94), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 4th July- 21st August 1994.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1997) Morphological Processing of Bengali Words for Natural Language Processing" . Presented in S.K. Chatterji 107th Birth Centenary National Seminar on Language and Linguistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 7th January 1997.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1998) "Utterance Rules for Bengali Words and their Computer Implementation" . Presented in the International Conference of Computational Linguistics, Speech, and Document Processing (ICCLSDP-98), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 21st-24th February 1998.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (1999) "Automatic Processing of Bengali Pronominal Forms by Computer" . Presented in the 2nd International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-2), Punjabi University, Patiala, 9th -11th January 1999.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2001) "Why do we need to develop corpora in Indian languages" . Presented in the International Working Conference on Sharing Capability in Localisation and Human Language Technologies (SCALLA-2001), organised by European Commission at National Centre of Software Technology, Bangalore, 21-23rd November 2001.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) "Understanding Spelling Variations in Bengali: a Corpus-based Study" . Presented in the 24th All India Conference of Linguistics (AICL-24), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 28th -30th January 2002.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2002) "Understanding Lexical Polysemy in Bengali" . Presented in the 24th All India Conference of Linguistics (AICL-24), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore 28th-30th January 2002.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2003) "Using Text Corpora for Understanding Polysemy in Bengali" . Presented in the International Language Engineering Conference, Central University, Hyderabad, 13th-15th November 2002.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Corpus-based Approach to Machine Translation" . Presented in the National Seminar on Cross Language Communication Tools (Machine Translation) for Indian Languages, University of Madras and Central Institute of Indian Language, Mysore, 25th-27th February 2004.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Lexical Semantics for Language Technology" . Presented in the National Seminar on Cross Language Communication Tools (Machine Translation) for Indian Languages, University of Madras and Central Institute of Indian Language, Mysore, 25th-27th February 2004.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2004) "Corpus-based Study of Lexical Polysemy in Bengali for Application in Language Technology" . Presented in the National Symposium on Indian Morphology, Phonology and Language Engineering (SIMPLE-04), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 19-21st March 2004.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Role of Context in Sense Variation: from Evidence to Theorisation" . Presented in the International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-6), Osmania University, Hyderabad, 6th-8st January 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "A Brief Sketch on the Techniques of Text Corpus Processing" . Presented in the UGC-SAP in Language Technology: Symposium on Linguistics, Quantification and Computation, Central University, Hyderabad, India, 9th-11th March 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2005) "Relevance of Corpora in First Language Teaching in India" . Presented in the 27th All India Conference of Linguistics(AICL-27), Central University, Hyderabad, 6th-8th December 2005.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2006) "The Process of Lemmatisation of Inflected and Affixed Words in Bengali Text Corpus" . Presented in the 28th All India Conference of Linguists (AICL-28), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2nd-5th November 2006.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "Generating Electronic Lexical Resources from Text Corpora in Bengali" . Presented in the National Seminar on Creation of Lexical Resources for Indian Language Computing and Processing (LRIL-2007), , C-DAC Mumbai, 26th-28th March 2007.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) "The Generation of Tools and Techniques for Text Annotation for Bengali" . Presented in Intel India Regional Academic Forum (IIRAF2-007), West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, 24th-25th August 2007.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Relevance of Dialect Corpora (Electronic) in Dialectology" . Presented in the International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-08), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 6-9th January, 2008.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Naturalization of English Words into Modern Bengali: A Corpus-based Empirical Study" . Presentated at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Postgraduate Teaching of Linguistics in India and 30th All India Conference of Linguists, Deccan College, Pune, 26th-28th November 2008.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Indirect Utilization of English Corpora in Teaching English to the Bengali Learners" . Presented at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Postgraduate Teaching of Linguistics in India and 30th All India Conference of Linguists, Deccan College, Pune, 26th-28th November 2008.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2008) "Direct Utilization of English Corpora in Teaching English to the Bengali Learners" . Presented at the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Postgraduate Teaching of Linguistics in India and 30th All India Conference of Linguists, Deccan College, Pune, 26th-28th November 2008.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Some Introductory Remarks on Corpus Linguistics" . Presented (in absentia) at the Workshop on Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI-I), Dept. of Computer Science, Goa University, Goa, 25th-26th March 2009.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Some Methods for Standardization of Translation Corpora in Indian Languages" . Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) on 28th August 2009 at the Dept. of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics, Dravidian University, Kuppam-517425 , Andhra Pradesh, India.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Exploring the patterns of usage and utterance variations of Bengali consonant clusters for linguistic applications" . Presented in the 31st All India Conference of Linguists (AICL 2009), Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India , 15th-17th December 2009.

Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2009) "Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for machine translation" . Presented in the 31st All India Conference of Linguists (AICL 2009), Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India , 15th-17th December 2009.

Project Supervisor

2002: Acted as Supervisor for B. Tech. and MCA students of the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata in the area of Natural Language Processing (parsing, POS tagging, morphological processing, concordance, lemmatisation, etc.) .

2008: Acted as Supervisor for a student of the Dept. of Shabdabodha System and Language Technology of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati in the area of Machine Translation .

2010: In January and February 2010, acted as an External Supervisor for the B. Tech. Students of the Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal , in the area of Machine Translation from English to Bengali .

Thesis Adjudicator

2007: Adjudicated Ph.D. Thesis "Quantification of Stylistic Traits and Authorship Attribution: A Computer-Oriented Statistical Approach" of Dept. of Statistics, Madras Christian College, Madras University, Chennai, India.

External Academic Assignments

1997: Acted as Resource Person in International CSP Workshop on Approaches to Knowledge Representation (CSP-98), Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

1998: Acted as Organising Committee Member in International Conference for Computational Linguistics, Speech, and Document Processing (ICCLSDP-1998), Indian Statsical Institute, Kolkata.

1999: Acted as Organising Committee Member in International Workshop on Document Analysis, Speech, and Natural Language Processing (IWDASNLP-1999), Indian Statsical Institute, Kolkata.

1999-2005: Acted as Book Reviewer for Linguist List - a web journal of linguistics.

2001: Acted as Organising Committee Member for International Workshop in Technology Development in Indian Languages (IWTDIL-2001), Indian Statsical Institute, Kolkata.

2002: Invited by Dept. of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK to act as Visiting Scholar for the South Asian Languages .

2002-2006: Acted as Advisory Board Member for Bijayananda Institute of Technology, Kolkata.

2003-2007: Acted as Book Notice Writer for Language - the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America .

2003: Acted as Paper Reviewer for International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2003), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, December 19-21, 2003.

2003: Acted as Organising Committee Member for International Workshop in Technology Development in Indian Languages (IWTDI-2003), Indian Statsical Institute, Kolkata.

2004: Acted as Assistant Editor for Bhasa - a peer-reviewed research journal of linguistics in Bengali.

2004-2007: Acted as Examiner for Bengali language and linguistics of the Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata.

2005: Acted as External Expert for Dept. of Bengali, North Bengal University, West Bengal to set up language laboratory for execution UGC-sponsored projects of linguistics research and application.

2005: Acted as Resource Person for National Workshop on the Use of Computers in Lexicography for Dept. of Punjabi Lexicography, Punjabi University, Patiala, 26th-30th September 2005.

2005-2008: Act as Advisory Board Member for Computer Jagat - a journal for computer Sceience and information technology published in Benglai from Kolkata.

2005: Acted as Organising Committee Member for International Workshop on Document Analysis (IWDA-2005), Indian Statsical Institute, Kolkata.

2006: Acted as Technical Committee Member for the National Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL-06), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2nd-4th April 2006.

2006: Acted as Technical Committee Member for the National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-06), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, 14th-17th July 2006.

2006: Acted as Advisor for Dept. of Bengali, North Bengal University to assess present course of activities of the department and design the course of future projects, 21st-23rd March 2006.

2007-2008: Act as Editorial Board Member for Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics - an international peer-reviewed research journal of linguistics.

2007-2008: Act as Editorial Board Member for Language Forum - an international peer-reviewed research journal of linguistics.

2007: Acted as Expert for Linguistic Terminology Generation in Indian languages for the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Dept. of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, 22nd-26th May 2007.

2007-2009: Act as Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Corpus Linguistics (Vol. 35, No. 2, July-Dec 2009) of Language Forum .

2007-2008: Act as Expert in a documentary film Onomatopoeic Words in Bengali, made by Central Institute Indian Languages, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.

2007-2008: Act as Expert in a documentary film Bangla and its Neighbouring Languages: Mutual Influences III-Oriya made by Central Institute Indian Languages, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.

2007: Acted as Manuscript Editor for a Bengali-English Dictionary compiled by Dr. Hanne-Ruth Thompson of SOAS, University College London, and published by Hippocrene Books Inc. , USA.

2007: Acted as Consultant for Developing Training Modules on Testing and Evaluation for National Testing Service, CIIL, Mysore, 30th-31st August 2007.

2008: Acted as Convenor in the International Workshop of Cognitive Linguistics (IWCL-08), Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 18th January 2008.

2008: Acted as Reviewer for research papers for South Asian Language Review.

2008: Acted as Reviewer for research papers for the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2008) held at CDAC, Pune, India , 20-22 December 2008.

2008: Acted as Reviewer for research papers for Annual Review of South Asian Language and Linguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

From July 2008 I have been acting as Expert for the project entitled "Development of Electronic Corpus from Bengali Literary and Imaginative Texts", carried out by Language, Art, National Culture, Education and Research Society (LANCEARS), Kolkata, and funded by the CIIL, Mysore, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India .

28.12.2008 Acted as one of the Experts on the topic Language-Literature-Linguistics: Ancient and Modern in the Interactive Radio Counselling Programme at GYAN-VANI (105.4 MHz F.M. Radio Channel: 4:10PM-5:10 PM) conducted by the School of Science of the Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata .

14.05.2008 Acted as one of the Speakers on the topic Future of the Bengali Language in a popular programme conducted by the Jatindas Nagar Cultural Committee, Kolkata at the Baishakhi Mela, Belgharia, Kolkata .

26.08.09 Acted as Expert in the Discussion-Cum-Consultation Programme on On Ecology of Mathematical Learning organized by Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanamandira, Belur Math , Howrah. The discussion was a part of the Project On Ecological Aspects of Mathematical Learning , funded by UGC, Govt. of India.

In October 2009 , acted as Manuscript Editor for a Comprehensive Bengali Grammar written by Hanne-Ruth Thompson of SOAS, University College, London, UK and published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis), London, UK.

01.03.2010 - 10.03.2010 , acted as Expert in the workshop on Knowledge Text Translation jointly organized by National Translation Mission , Central Institute of Indian Languages, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India and the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur Univerity, Kolkata, India .

From April 2010 , acting as a Supervisor for the project entitled Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) undertaken by Office of the Registrar General, Language Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.

From June 2010 , acting as Chief Coordinator in India, Pakistan, and other countries of this region, in a project undertaken by Department of Bristish and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, P.J. Safrak University in Kosice, Moyzesova, Slovakia .

In July 2010 , acted as Examiner for the paper entitled "Computer Application" (100 marks) for three years integrated MA course final examination in Sanskrit of the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University , Berur Math, Howrah - 711202, West Bengal, India.

23.08.2010 - 03.09.2010 , invited to act as Expert for the Bengali language corpora in the Workshop on Corpus Cleaning for the Linguistic Data Consortium for the Indian Languages (LDCIL) to be held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Ministry of HRD, Govt of India.

Lectures Delivered as Visiting Faculty

1991-1992: Worked as Lecturer at the New Alipore College, Kolkata to teach English language and linguistics to the undergraduate students.

1995: Delivered five (5) invited lectures on "Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing" at the International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 25th-28th December 1995.

1997: Delivered three (3) invited lectures on "Applicability of Natural Language Processing in Bengali: a Linguistic Perspective" in the International CSP Workshop on Approaches to Knowledge Representation, at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 21st-23rd February 1997.

1997: Delivered six (6) invited lectures on "Natural Language Processing in Bengali" in the Ph.D. Association of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 21st-28th August 1997.

1998: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Quantitative Analysis of Bengali Graphemes and Their Articulatory Peculiarities" in the National Symposium on Methods in Quantitative Linguistics, at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 3rd-4th March 1998.

2000: Delivered two (2) invited lectures on "Relevance of Corpus in Linguistics" in the Winter School on Methods of Core Linguistics at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 6th-15th December 2000.

2001: Delivered one (1) invited lectures on "Language Corpus: How to Design and Where to Use" in the International Workshop on Technology Development in Indian Languages at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, , Kolkata, 26th-29th March 2001.

2001: Delivered one (1) invited lectures on "Why do We Need to Develop Corpora in Indian Languages" in the International Working Conference on Sharing Capability in Localisation and Human Language Technologies (SCALLA 2001)of the European Commission , at the National Centre for Software Technology, Bangalore, 21st-23rd November 2001.

2003: Delivered one (i) invited lectures on "Relevance of Corpus in the Study of Sociolinguistics and Folklinguistics" in the National Workshop on Folk Language in the Perspective of Sociolinguistics at the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 11th-15th November 2003.

2003: Delivered three (3) invited lectures on "Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology" in the UGC Refresher Course for the University and College Teachers of India at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 26th November - 16th December 2003.

2004: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Language Corpora: Present Indian Need" in the International Conference on Sharing Capability in Localisation and Human Language Technologies (SCALLA 2004), Kathmandu, Nepal, 9th-11th January 2004.

2004: Delivered two (2) invited lectures on "Corpus-based Approach to Machine Translation" in the International Seminar on Cross Language Communication Tools (Machine Translation) for the Indian Languages at Linguistics Studies Unit, Department of Tamil Language, University of Madras, Chennai, 25th-27th February 2004.

2004: Delivered two (2) invited lectures on "Lexical Semantics for Language Technology" in the International Seminar on Cross Language Communication Tools (Machine Translation) for the Indian Languages at the Linguistics Studies Unit, Department of Tamil Language, University of Madras, , Chennai, 25th-27th February 2004.

2005: Delivered eighteen (18) invited lectures on "Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology" to the Postgraduate Students and Ph.D. Scholars at the Linguistics Studies Unit, University of Madras, Chennai, 17th-22nd May 2005.

2005: Delivered four (4) invited lectures on "Utilization of Corpora in Compilation of a Monolingual General Dictionary in Electronic Form" in the National Workshop on the Use of Computer in Lexicography at the Depaertment of Punjabi Lexicography, Punjabi University, Patiala, 26th-30th September 2005.

2006: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Generation and Utilization of Dialect Corpora for Dialectological Research and Application" at the Depaertment of Bengali, North Bengal University, Darjeeling, West Bengal, 21st-24th March 2006.

2006: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Compilation of Dialect Dictionary in Electronic Form" at the Department of Bengali, North Bengal University, West Bengal, 21st-24th March 2006.

2007: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Some Innovative Techniques for Processing Language Corpora to Meet the New Demands of Linguistics and Language Technology" in the In2: The Innovative Initiative Workshop at the IBM Researh Centre, Kolkata, 6th-8th March 2007.

2007: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "New Methods for Teaching English to the Bengali Learners" in the Programme of Orientation, Training, and Continuous Upgradation of Knowledge, Competence, Pedagogic Skill of School Teachers under the CTE Scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India at the Ramakrishna Mission Sikshana Mandira, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal. 21st-28th Septermber 2007.

2007: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Problems of Generating Technical Terms in Bengali in the Fields of Computer Science, Information Technology and Language Technology" in the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Computer World at the P.C. Bhawal Textbook and Public Library, organised by Computer Jagat, Kolkata. 2th October 2007.

2007: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Corpus Based Study of Bengali: A New Approach to Linguistic Research and Application" in the Programme of Orientation, Training, and Continuous Upgradation of Knowledge, Competence, Pedagogic Skill of School Teachers under the CTE Scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India and organised by Ramakrishna Mission Sikshana Mandira, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, 28th November - 12th December 2007.

2008: Delivered fifteen (15) invited lectures on "Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology" to the Postgraduate Students at the Shabdabodha and Language Technology Course of the Rastriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, 22nd-25th Januray 2008.

2008: Delivered two (2) invited lectures on "Field Methodology and Development of Language Corpora" at the Training Programme on Mother Tongue Survey of India organised by Office of the Registrar General, Language Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, Kolkata, 27th May 2008.

2008: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Applicational Advantages of Usage Based Electronic Dictionary" in the Programme of Orientation, Training, and Continuous up-gradation of Knowledge, Competence, Pedagogical Skill of School Teachers under the CTE Scheme sponsored by Govt. of India, and organised by Ramakrishna Mission Sikshana Mandira, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, 3rd November - 15th November 2008.

2008: Delivered one (1) invited lecture on "Learning English as the Native Learners Do: An Empirical Journey for the ELT Aspirants" in the Programme of Orientation, Training, and Continuous up-gradation of Knowledge, Competence, Pedagogical Skill of School Teachers under the CTE Scheme sponsored by Govt. of India, and organised by Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, 1st December - 15th December, 2008.

2009: Delivered three (3) invited lectures on Generating Electronic Lexical Databases for Preparing Scientific and Technical Terminology" in Preparation of Scientific and Technical Terminology Corpus in Telugu of the DRS-I Project of Special Assistance Programme-UGC, Govt. of India, at the Department of Lexicography, P.S. Telugu University, , Hyderabad, AP, 18th February - 20th February 2009.

2010: Delivered one (1) lecture on "Some Recent Trends in English Language Teaching" in the National Seminar-cum-Workshop on Recent Trends in Language Teaching at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, David Hare Training College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 4th-6th June 2010.

From July 2010: Acting as Visiting Faculty at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur Math, Howrah, India to teach Natural Language Processing in the "Five Year Integrated Course in Sanskrit and Computer Application".

Memberships

Life Member : Dravidian Linguistics Association Kerala, India.

Life Member : Linguistic Society of India , Pune, India.

Life Member : Institute of Linguistics and Culture, Pondicherry, India.

Life Member : Bangiya Sahitya Parisad, Kolkata, India.

Member : West Bengal Linguistics Institute, Kolkata, India.

Member : Natural Language Processing Association of India, Mumbai, India.

Member : LinguistList.org, USA.

Member : Corpus Online.org, The Netherland.

Member : National Association of Computational Linguistics, Chennai, India.

Member : General Council, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Related Sites

The Houses I often visit are:

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India.

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Linguistic Data Consortium USA.

Oxford Text Archive UK.

LinguistList.org .

LanguageinIndia.com .

EAGLES.

International Conpouter Archive of Modern English.

European Language Resource Association.

Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Govt. of India.

How I Sustain....

I sustain with WRATH

W ork is worship
R oad to suceess is full of thorns
A ttitute makes and unmakes a man
T ake life as it comes and surge ahead
H onesty is the best policy

As a Linguist....

As a Linguist this is where I stand...

Out of 100 people ...

(a) 95 people never care to know what I do.

(b) 02 people say my works are simply worthless.

(c) 02 people say my works are 'interesting'.

(d) 01 person says my works are useful.

And I...

(a) Work for the last 3 (c + d) people.

(b) Like to work for the last 5 (b + c + d) people.

(c) Want to work for the entire population.

Personal Trivia....

My Favourite Journey: My Life...

My Favourite Line: Never Say Die

My Favourite Friend: YOU

My Favourite Hero: Who Never Quits

My Favourite Hobby: Reading...

My Favourite Country: INDIA

My Favourite City: KOKLATA

My Favourite Novel: To the God Unknown

My Favourite Novelist: Milan Kundera

My Favourite Song: Down the memory lane...

My Favourite Mission: Work is Worship

My Favourite Quotation:

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. . [Macbeth, Act V, Scene V].

My Favourite Misquotation: Faulty, thy name is Human!!!

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