Author: Jyoti D. Pawar

Niladri Sekhar Dash, Ph.D., is Associate Professor,  Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is also Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies, principal investigator of the Indian Languages Corpora Initiative-Bengali and the Digital Bangla Pronunciation Dictionary. His main areas of research are: corpus linguistics, natural language processing, computational, lexicography, machine translation, Word Net design and development, lexical semantics,   computer assisted language teaching, digital language resource development, language documentation and digitization, etc. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Ph.D.,  is  Director, Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Previously, he was Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai; consortium leader of the Indradhanush Word Net in Indian languages; Associate Editor, ACMTransaction on Asian Language Information Processing; leader of multi-institute consortia projects on Indian language Word Nets, Indian language search engine, and machine translation. Professor Bhattacharyya has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (2004), University of Grenoble (2005, 2009 and 2011) and distinguished lecturer at the University of Houston (2012). His research areas are: natural language processing, machine learning, cross lingual IR, information extraction, Word Net design and development, etc. Jyoti  D. Pawar is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Goa University, Goa. She is co-consortium leader of the Indradhanush Word Net in Indian languages. Her research areas are: natural language processing (NLP), data mining, data structures, etc.