341, Gul Mohar Park Colony

Seri Lingampally Post

Hyderabad 500 019

Mobile: 91-9885585665

Residence: 91-40-55960592

Email: arulmozi@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION

 

• Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 1999.
• PGDTS, Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 1995.
• M.Phil., Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 1992.
• M.A., Linguistics, Bharathiar University, 1990.
• B.Sc., Chemistry, Bharathiar University, 1988.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

• January 19, 2005 – May 30, 2005: Guest Faculty, Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

·       29 December 2000 - 15 January 2005: Research Staff (Natural Language Processing), AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chennai.

·       January 1999 - July 2000: Project Fellow, UGC Major Research Project on Spell Checker for Tamil, Department of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur.

·       June 1998 - October 1998: Language Assistant (Tamil), Project on Development of Lexical Resources in Indian Languages (DoE sponsored Project), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Manasagangotri, Mysore.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

• January 2005 – Present: Teaching two courses (Advance Topics in Computational Linguistics and Computer Application in Indian Languages) for Post Graduate Students at the University of Hyderabad.

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

• Ph.D. Thesis on Aspects of Inflectional Morphophonology: A Computational Approach under the guidance of Prof. Probal Dasgupta and Dr. N. Krupanandam, Lecturer, Centre for A.L.T.S, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
• M.Phil. Dissertation on Dynamics of Translation in Reconstructing Sci-Tech Terminologies under the guidance of Prof. Probal Dasgupta, Centre for A.L.T.S, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
• M.A. Project on Advertisement Headlines under the guidance of Dr.C.Shanmugom, Professor and Head, Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

·       `Computational Morphology of Verbal Complex', In the Proceedings of the National Seminar on Word Structure in Dravidian, Kuppam: Dravidian Univesity Publication, 2003, 376-396.Mysore.

·       `Tamil WordNet' (co-authored with Dr. S.Rajendran, et.al) in the Proceedings of the First Global WordNet Conference, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 21-25 January 2002.

·       `urpaniyalum te.po.mii.yum’ (coauthored with Dr. S. Rajendran) in tamiz pozil, tuNar 74, malar 3, 2000, 89-97.

·       `Diglossia and Tamil: Some Sociolinguistic Observations' (co-authored with Prof. Probal Dasgupta) in the Indian Journal of Linguistics, Vol-19, Jan-Dec 2000.

 

WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED

 

·       Workshop on `WordNet for Dravidian Languages' (organized jointly by AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and Tamil University) held at the AU-KBC Research Centre from 2-3 June 2003 - as Coordinator.

·       Workshop on `Corpus-based Natural Language Processing' (organized jointly by AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, RCILTS-Tamil, Anna University, NCST, Mumbai, LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad, Tamil University) held at the AU-KBC Research Centre from 17-31 December 2001 - as Coordinator.

 

PROJECT COORDINATED

 

• Project on `Tamil WordNet to Enhance Machine Translation’ (funded by the Tamil Nadu Software Development Fund, Tamil Virtual University), at the AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chennai.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

 

• Participated and presented a paper on `Computational Model for Tamil Verbal Compounds at the 26th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists held at the PS Telugu University, Hyderabad during 18-20 June 1998.
• Paper presented on `Spell and Grammar Checker for Tamil' (co-authored with S. Rajendran and S. Boopathy) at the 27th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists’ held at the Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram during 17-19 June 1999.
• Participated and presented a paper on `urpaniyalum te.po.mii.yum' (co-authored with S. Rajendran) at the T.P.M. Centenary Celebration Conference held at the Department of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur from 23-24 March 2000.
• Participated and presented a paper on Computational Morphology of Verbal Complex (co-authored with S. Rajendran, et.al) at the National Seminar on Word Structure of Dravidian Languages held at the Dravidian University, Kuppam from 26-28 November 2001.
• Participated and presented a paper on Tamil WordNet (co-authored with S.Rajendran, et.al) at the First Global WordNet Conference held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 21-25 January 2002.
• Partcipated and presented a paper on `Building Telugu WordNet as a Component of Dravidian WordNet (co-authored with G. Uma Maheshwar Rao & S. Rajendran) at the National Seminar on Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu held at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad from 8-10^th October 2003.

 

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIP

 

• Award for the best research paper presented at the 26th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists held at the PS Telugu University, Hyderabad during 18-20 June 1998.
• Merit Scholarship for Ph.D. research work from the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from September 1995 to September 1997.
• Award for the President Scout in the year 1984.

 

AREAS OF INTEREST

·       WordNet and Machine Translation

·       Natural Language Processing

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

Date of Birth: 4 February 1968

Religion: Hindu

Nationality: Indian

Passport No.: E 7291790

Languages Known: Tamil (native), English, Telugu

Knowledge of Computer: Ability to work in Linux and Windows environment

Computer Packages worked on: MS-Office, Goldwave, Praat, Festvox

 

REFERENCES

 

Prof. Panchanan Mohanty   

Head, Centre for A.L.T.S.

University of Hyderabad  

Hyderabad 500046                                       

Email: panchanan_mohanty@yahoo.com

 

Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh

Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages

Manasagangotri,

Mysore 570006

Email: bhasha@sancharnet.in