Research Interests:
Machine Translation (MT), Machine Transliteration, MT Evaluation, Context modelling in MT, Domain Adaptation of MT, Translation Memory, Automatic Post-editing, Computer Aided Translation, Comparable Corpora, Word Sense Disambiguation, Word Sense Induction, Semantic Similarity, Computational Semantics, Question Answering / Machine Reading Comprehension, Sentiment Analysis, Text Normalization, Text Summarization, Textual Entailment / Natural Language Inference, Paraphrases, Multi-Word Expressions, Code-mixing, Social Media Content Analysis, Fake News Detection, Information Extraction, Math Word Problems, Text Analytics, Entity Recognition, Ontology, Relation Extraction, Knowledge Bases, Knowledge Graphs, FinNLP, LegalNLP, e-Learning, Computational Psychology, Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities, Language Identification, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Generation, Cross Lingual Information Retrieval, Natural Language Interface to Database, Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
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Education:
PhD (in Engineering): in 2009, from Jadavpur University, on "Studies on the Machine Translation of News Items from English to Bengali Using a Hybrid Approach", under the supervision of Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.
ME (in Computer Science & Engineering): in 2002, from Jadavpur University.
BE (in Computer Science & Engineering): in 2000, from Jadavpur University.
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Associate Professor, in Computer Science & Engineering, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (Since December, 2019).
Associate Editor (since 2019) on the Editorial Board of SADHANA – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, Publisher: Springer.
Young Faculty Research Fellow (2016-2021), under Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT, Digital India Corporation (formerly Media Lab Asia), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India.
Assistant Professor, in Computer Science & Engineering, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (August, 2013 – December 2019).
Assistant Professor, in Computer and System Sciences, at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India. (March, 2013 – August, 2013).
Post-doctoral researcher (part time), working on Machine Translation Evaluation, in the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (EU-FP7) project Multilingual Content Synchronization with Wikis (CoSyne), at MT Research Group, National Centre for Language Technology, School of Computing, Dublin City University. [Together with University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands; Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy; Heidelberg Institute for Technical Studies (HITS), Germany; Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany; Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (NISV), The Netherlands; and WikiMedia Foundation NL, The Netherlands] (October, 2010 – February, 2013)
Post-doctoral researcher, working on Integrated Language Technology, in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation, atMT Research Group, National Centre for Language Technology, School of Computing, Dublin City University. (August, 2008 – February, 2013)
Senior Research Engineer, at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (April, 2007 – July, 2008)
Lecturer, in Department of Information Technology, at Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, India. (July, 2006 – April, 2007).
Teaching Assistant, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (July, 2003 – June, 2006).
Senior Research Fellow (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. (July, 2003 – June, 2006)