RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Ongoing
Investigation "na" marker in colloquial Hindi speech which potentially is a discourse particle.
Collaborators: Oluwasegun Joseph Owoyele, Joyce M. McDonough
Ongoing
The Toy Game is a simple, portable set-up developed as an on-the-spot field task to elicit natural, unscripted conversation between two participants.
Collaborators: Mary Moroney
Ongoing
Investigation definiteness patterns in bare nominal in Hindi.
Collaborators: Mudafia Zafar, Samar Husain
Conference Paper : Society for Computation in Linguistics 2024
Investigating syntactic complexity with the point of view of Dependency Length Minimization in an SOV language. [osf link]
Collaborators: Benu Pareek, Mudafia Zafar, Karan Yadav, Samar Husain, Ashwini Vaidya
Journal Article: Language Resources and Evaluation [here]
This project built a Hindi Dialogue Corpus from LDC CALLFRIEND data by transcribing and parsing. My contribution to the project is to develop a detailed corpus analysis. Moreover, I have been managing the parsing algorithm for the dialogue corpus.
Collaborator: Purnima Singh
Investigated various cognitive factors, such as contact, intergroup anxiety and facets of essential belief, which are associated with explicit and implicit sexual prejudice and attitude towards LGBTQ+.
Collaborator: Sucharita Maji
Systematic literature review using the PRISMA method on disclosure decision-making, "coming out" in sexual minorities. The study identified antecedents and consequences of disclosure in various spaces. A pilot study was performed to test those antecedents and consequences in the Indian context. A qualitative study was done using semi-structured interviews.
Collaborator: Harish Karnick
The work comprises studying human behaviour to understand decision-making through a gameplay experiment. We compared human learning to the Computer’s algorithm of playing the same game. We observed that humans and our reinforcement learning algorithm have some common patterns but not the same process.