Educational Qualification:

• M.A. in Bodo, Gauhati University
• Ph.D. Awarded from Bodoland University
• Others: B.Ed., DCA, PGDCA

Professional Experience:

1. Worked as a Guest Lecturer (Bodo) from 3rd July, 2017 to 2020 in the North Eastern Regional Language Centre, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Bongaon Majhipara, Beltola, Ghy-28.
2. Worked as a Linguist in Indian Languages Corpora Initiative Project (DIT Sponsored Project, JNU), at the Department of Bodo, Gauhati University, Guwahati.
3. Worked as a Senior Research Assistant from Oct, 11, 2011 to Feb. 25, 2013 at LDC-IL, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore-06.
4. Worked as a Junior Resource Person-Bodo from May 6, 2009 to October 10, 2011 at LDC-IL, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore-06.
5. Worked as a Lecturer in Bodo at the National Pioneer College, Tangla (2007-2009).
   
   

Area of Interest

• Linguistics Study, POS Tagging, Chunking, Speech Segmentation, Corpus Creation and Normalization, Lexicography, Translation, Study on Culture and Literature.

Papers Presented:

1. Presented paper on “Case Marking System in Bodo” at 38th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, 2017.
2. Presented paper on “Dual Case Marking and TAMing Bodo Tags” at 31st All India Conference of Linguistics and Transformation Studies (CALTS), University of Hyderabad, 2009.

 

Conference/Seminar/Workshop Attended:
International:

1. Participated in 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2012), held at IIT Delhi, India, on March 11 to 17, 2012.
2. Participated in the international SALA (South Asian Languages Analysis) 29 held in CIIL, Mysore, India 2011.
3. Participated in 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON-2010 held on December 8-11, 2010 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

National:

1. A Three Day National Workshop on Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Phase-2), 18-20 April 2013 at Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab.
2. Workshop cum training programme English to Indian Languages Machine Translation (EILMT) held at NEHU Guest House Guwahati on 16 March 2013, Organised by EILMT Department of Linguistics, NEHU.
3. Workshop on Translation and Hands on Computer, 1-2 March 2013 held at Gujurat University Ahmedabad.
4. Workshop -Training on HTK Tool-Kit for Building Speech Data, (LDC-IL, CIIL), 4 - 6 December, 2012.
5. Participated in workshop on “Tone and Intonation: Theory, Typology and Computation (WTI 2012)” at IIT Guwahati.
6. Participated and delivered lecture on Corpus and POS issues Discussion in Bodo on 10 day orientation cum training programme on Natural Language Processing from 31st January- 10th February, 2012, held at CSIT Gauhati University, Assam Organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
7. Participated and delivered lecture on corpus and speech in the workshop on “An introduction to Natural Language Processing” held at Tezpur University, Assam Organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore 2011.
8. Participated and delivered lecture on Speech in the workshop on “An introduction to Natural Language Processing” held on February 4th to 9th, 2010 at Dibrugar University,) Assam Organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
9. Participated in Knowledge Sharing Events on Morphological Analyzers & Generators creation of Multilingual Dictionary and Part-of-Speech Tagging from 22-26 March, 2010 (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore.
10. Participated and delivered lecture on corpus in the workshop on “An introduction to Natural Language Processing” from November 9th to 13th, 2009 held at Guwahati University, Guwahati Organized by LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
11. Participated in the “National Seminar on Contemporary Bodo Poetry” organized by the Department of Bodo, Gauhati University, Assam in collaboration with the Sahitya Akademi, Kolkata (25th&26th Feb.2009).
12. Participated in the “4th State Level Seminar on Bodo Language and Culture” organized by Bodo Department Teachers’ Association. Hosted by Department of Bodo, Tangla College, Tangla (14th October-2007).

Field Work Experiences:

1. Field work  on Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) Speech Data Collection (150 Speakers) in Assam(2009).
2. Field work  on Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) Speech Data Collection (133 Speakers) in Assam(2010).
3. Field work on Text Corpus collection in Assam (2010).
4. Field work on News Text Corpus Collection in Assam(2011).
5. Field work on Text Corpus collection in Assam (2012)

Organizational Efforts:

• 2012. Co-ordinator, Speech Workshop: Recording for Bodo Pronunciation Dictionary at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
• 2011. Member. Co-ordinating and volunteering at SALA 29 held in CIIL, Mysore, India.