Interests

• Generative Syntax, Nominal Expressions, Multi-Word Expressions
• Word Sense Disambiguation, Particle Expressions, Comparative Grammar and Linguistic Divergence
• Linguistic Resource and Analysis, Linguistic Landscape, Linguistic Diversity

Publications
           Books

• Genitives in Hindi. Partridge. 2016.
• Disambiguation of Particles. Partridge. 2015.
• Theory of Nouns. Partridge. 2015.

         Papers/articles

• Kumar, Pursotam and Thakur, Anil (2024). English-to-Hindi Mapping of Compositional Verb-Particle Constructions. International Journal of Religion, 5(4), 171-178. https://doi.org/10.61707/rvfr2948

• Thakur, A. and Kumar, P. (2023). Sociolinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Visuals in Varanasi. In M. Hadzantonis and A. H. Omar (Eds.), the GLOCAL Conference Proceedings Series. The GLOCAL in Asia 2022 (pp. 151-165). London, U.K.: The GLOCAL, the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics Publishers. doi: https://doi.org/10.47298/cala2022.4-4

• Ranjan, Ashish, Singh, VP, Mishra, RB, Thakur, Anil and Singh, AK (2021). Sentence polarity detection using stepwise greedy correlation based feature selection and random forests: An fMRI study.  Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 59. DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2021.100985

• Ranjan, Ashish, Singh, AK, Singh, VP, Mishra, RB, Thakur, Anil (2021). Sentential Negation Identification of FMRI Data Using k-NN. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems: Machine Intelligence and Smart Systems. PP: 657-664. DOI:10.1007/978-981-33-4893-6_54  

• Ranjan, Ashish, Singh, VP, Singh, AK, Thakur, Anil and Mishra, RB (2020). Classifying brain state in sentence polarity exposure: An ANN model for fMRI data.  Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, Volume 34, Pages 361-368. DOI:10.18280/ria.340315

• NLP tools in language pedagogy. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3), Singapore, June 2018. 
• Interpretation of particle elements. Prajna. Journal of Banaras Hindu University. 64(1): 256-58. 2018.
• Machine Translation in India. In Tariq Khan edited History of Translation in India. CIIL Mysore. 2017.
• Cartography of temporal adverbial clauses (with Sanjukta Ghosh and others). In Singh, S. et al. Fabrics of Linguistics. 2017.
• Machine Translation: Issues and Challenges. A unit in IGNOU textbook on translation. 2014.
• Na Beyond Negation (with Sanjukta Ghosh). In Proceedings of the ICON-13. Goa. 2013. 
• Mapping of Temporal Expressions in Hindi- English MT Pair (with Shailendra Kumar). In Apoorva. BHU. 2012.
• Dialectal Variations in the use of Question Particles in Thai (with P Thwachai), Bharthiar   University. 2010
• Corpora and Contrastive Study: Evidence from English-Hindi Language Pair (with S. Kumar & Neha Vashishtha). Bharthiar University. 2010
• How to get the Best Result out of a Machine Translation System: A Case Study of English to Hindi Translation. (with RMK Sinha). Computer Society of India Journal, Vol. 38, Issue No. 4. 2009.
• A Study of the Translation Divergence in English and Hindi MT” (with RMK Sinha). Computer Society of India Journal, Vol. 38, Issue No. 3. 2009.
• Review of Asim Ranjan Parhi's Indian English Through Newspapers. In Dialogue 2009, Lucknow.
• On the Choice of Model for Computational Linguistic Research for Indian Languages: Evidence from Terminology Gaps” (with B.N. Patnaik). Gaveshna, CIH, Agra. 2008
• Causative Compound Verb Constructions: A Generative Lexicon Account (with Sanjukta Ghosh). VishwaBharat@tdil. 2008, New Delhi
• Handling Polysemous Particles in Multilingual Envirinment (with Sanjukta Ghosh). VishwaBharat@tdil. 2008, New Delhi.
• Disambiguation of kyaa in Hindi for Hindi-English MT” (with R.M.K. Sinha), Indian Linguistics, Vol. 67, 2007.
• On Translation of Interrogative Sentences from Hindi to English (with RMK Sinha). In Proceedings of MLMTA, CSREA Press, Las Vegas USA, 2006.
• A Contrastive analysis of a particle in selected Indian languages (with BN Patnaik and others). In Perspectives in Linguistics, University of Kashmir, 2006.
• Some aspects of lexical couplets in Oriya and Hindi (with BN Patnaik). In Bhashacintan, Banaras Hindu University. 2006
• Disambiguation and mapping strategies for selected polysemous postpositions in Hindi for Hindi-English MT (with RMK Sinha). In Bhashacintan, Banaras Hindu University. 2006.
• Handling ki in Hindi for Hindi-English MT (with RMK Sinha). In Proceedings of Xth MT Summit Bangkok 2005.
• Divergence patterns in Machine Translation between Hindi and English (with RMK Sinha). In Proceedings of Xth MT Summit Bangkok 2005.
• Translation Divergence in English-Hindi MT (with RMK Sinha). In Proceedings of EAMT, Budapest 2005.
• Machine Translation of bilingual Hindi-English (Hinglish) Text (with RMK Sinha). MT Submit-10. http://www.mt-archive.info/MTS-2005-Sinha-1.pdf
• Indeclinable and Natural Language Processing (with BN Patnaik). In iSTRANS, New Delhi. 2004.
• Disambiguation and Mapping Strategies for Adverbial Chunks for Machine Translation (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004.
• Identification of Subject and Object NPs in Hindi (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004
• Synthesizing Verb Forms in English to Hindi Translation: Case of Mapping Infinitive and Gerund in English to Hindi (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004.
• Multiple Words Expressions in English and Hindi: Problems in contextualization (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004.
• Definiteness marking strategies in Hindi and their mapping to English for Machine Translation (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004
• Syntax and Semantics of kaa in Hindi (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004.
• Pre-/postposition selection in text generation for Hindi and other Indian languages for Translation from English (with RMK Sinha). In iSTRANS. New Delhi. 2004.  
• Hindi as a link language: A case of the Andamanese Hindi (with JC Sharma). Indian Linguistics. 2004.

Presentation

• Role of certain Particles in Complex Predicates in Maithili. 35th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-35), INALCO, Paris, 29-31 October 2019.
• Some observations on the pedagogical applications of MT​. 46th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists & International Symposium on Linguistic Ecology and Language Technology. Jadavpur University, Kolkata. June 21-23, 2018. 
• Dravidian Features in Andamani Hindi (with Sanjukta Ghosh). 45th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists and International Symposium on Case, Agreement and Postpositions, 2017. University of Delhi.
• Hindi-English Adpositions: Divergence, Mapping and Contextualization. 45th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists and International Symposium on Case, Agreement and Postpositions, 2017, University of Delhi.
• MT as a teaching-learning tool: A case of Hindi-English MT. International Seminar on Linguistics and Teaching of Hindi and other Indian Languages as Foreign Language, University of Delhi, 27-28 Feb 2017 University of Delhi, India.
• Complex Predicates in Maithili. One day symposium on typological perspectives on complex predicates in South Asian languages, IIT Kanpur, 27 Feb 2016 IIT Kanpur, India.
• Noun Phrase Divergence in Hindi-English. ICOSAL-12, University of Hyderabad, 7-9 January 2016.
• Teaching preposition: A cognitive linguistics approach. National Conference on Localization of teaching and testing in Hindi and other Indian languages, BHU/CIIL Mysore. 5-7 November 2015.
• Localization of teaching and testing tools. National Conference on Localization of teaching and testing in Hindi and other Indian languages, BHU (sponsored by CIIL Mysore), 5-7 November 2015.
• Sense disambiguation of particle elements. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, IITBHU, 7-9 December 2012.
• Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: A Study of Secondary Agreement. 18th Himalayan Symposium, BHU, 10-12 September 2012.
• Compound verbs in Hindi: Problems in MT (in Hindi) National Seminar on Linguistics and Language Technology: Different aspects and issues, MGIHU Wardha, 22-24 February 2012.
• Scope ambiguity in Hindi genitives. International seminar on interdisciplinary perspectives on Semantics. AMU, 25-27 Feb 2011.
• Divergence in verb mapping in Hindi-English MT. SALA-29, CIIL Mysore, 6-8 January 2011.
• Translation and Name Identification: Cultural Clues. International Seminar on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture, BHU, 9-11 November 2010. 
• MT: An Aid to Translation Studies. National Seminar on Translation and Indian Culture, BHU, 15-16 November 2010.
• Breaking boundary: A case of (Hu)man machine interaction. Research Without Boundaries: National Seminar on Interdisciplinary research and studies in Humanities, BHU, 9-10  September 2010.
• Translating Time: Technology and Linguistic Divergences. International Conference on Translation and Multilingualism. BHU, 2009.
• Issues in Maithili Agreement. 13th Himalayan Symposium at IIAS Simla, 22-24 October 2007.
• Agreement in Pahari languages. 13th Himalayan Symposium at IIAS Simla, 22-24 October 2007.
• Disambiguation and mapping of Hindi hii onto English. 30th AICL, Deccan College Pune, 26-28 November 2008.
• Processing of some particle elements in selected Indian languages. 26th Annual International Conference of SALA, CIIL Mysore, 19-21 December 2006.
• Semantics of causative verbs in Bangla and Hindi. 26th Annual International Conference of SALA, CIIL Mysore, 19-21 December 2006.
• With language do you want to hurt or heal. 1st World Congress on the Power of Language, Bangkok Thailand, 25 May 2006.
• Does DP parallel CP in Hindi-Urdu 22 AICL, IIT Kanpur, 20-22 December 1999.

Invited Talks/Workshops

• Issues and applications in Computational Linguistics. Academic Staff College, Ranchi University, 27 July 2019.
• Topics in Applied Linguistics. Academic Staff College, Ranchi University, 27 July 2019.
• Linguistics Issues in Computational Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Indian Languages, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur. April 26, 2019.
• i-CALL: Empowering Language Learning. LESS-2019, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. February 2019.
• Application of Computational Linguistics. VCW, Rajghat, Varanasi. February 2019.
• Workshop on Parsing Guidelines and Techniques. SCONLI-2019. Department of HSS, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. January 2019.
• Workshop on Basic Computational Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Mumbai University. December 2018.
• Language Matters. International Mother Language Day Celebration. Department of Humansitic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. February 2018.
• Application of NLP resources for language learning teaching. SCONLI-2018, MGAHV Wardha. January 2018.
• NLP-based ICT tools for teaching-learning languages. National Seminar on use of ICT in teaching learning of languages in school education: Indian Scenario, 17 March 2017, NCERT, New Delhi.
• Natural Language Processing. Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for North Eastern States, Manipur University, Imphal (sponsored by ISI Kolkata). 19-21 Oct 2016.
• Machine Translation. Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for North Eastern States, Manipur University, Imphal (sponsored by ISI Kolkata). 19-21 Oct 2016.
• Contrastive Analysis and MT. National Workshop on NLP and Image Processing, North Maharastra University, Jalgaon, 23 Jan 2016.
• MT Divergence. National Workshop on NLP and Image Processing, North Maharastra University, Jalagaon, 23 Jan 2016.
• Workshop on Sense Disambiguation. SCONLI-2014. Department of Linguistics, Kashmir University. March 2014.
• Workshop on Linguistics for Language Teachers. DAV School, Kashi Varanasi. 2013.
• Multi-functional expressions in Hindi. National Seminar on POS tagging in Indian languages: Issues and Perspectives, CIIL Mysore, 12-13 December 2011.

PhD Guidance
        Ongoing

• Pursotam Kumar: English to Hindi Phrasal Verb Divergence

       Awarded

• Ashish Ranjan (2022): Computation of Some Aspects of Language Processing in the Brain using Machine Learning (as a co-supervisor)
• Phitak Faengkok (2019): Question particles in Thai 
• Manish Singh (2018): Japanese-Hindi particle divergence
• Shweta Chandra (2018): Anaphoric ambiguity and resolution techniques
• Brijesh Yadav (2017, MGIHU Wardha): Named entity recognition in Hindi (as a co-supervisor)
• Ashok Kumar (2017): Bhojpuri pronominal system
• Shailendra Kumar (2016): Syntactic divergence in Hindi-English MT
• Prawit Thongchai (2015): Inter-cultural speech variation in Bangkok Thai
• Neha Vashishtha (2013): Corpus-based disambiguation for Hindi-English MT

Fellowship

• JRF of the University Grants Commission

Project/Research Grants

• Principal Investigator: Major Research Project of the UGC, Rs. 6.45 lakh (2007-2010, completed)
• Chief Investigator: TDIL Grant by MCIT, Rs. 63 lakhs (2009, not executed)

• Member: DUGC, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2022-23
• Member: DPGC, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2019-21.
• Convener: DUGC, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2018-19.
• Convener: Examination Committee, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2018-19, 2019-20.
• Convener: STEC2019, Sponsored by PMMMNMTT scheme of the MHRD. TLC, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. March 2019.
• Convener: LESS-2019, Sponsored by Language Custodians. Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. February 2019.
• Member: DFAC, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2019.
• Member: Institute Core Course Monitoring Committee, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2018-19.
• Member: Board of Studies, Department of Linguistics, MGIHU Wardha. 2010-12, 2014-16, 2017-2019.
• Member: Board of Studies, Department of Languages and Linguistics, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. 2012-14, 2015-17, 2018-19.
• Coordinator: Admission Committee, Department of Linguistics, BHU. 2015-16, 2017-18.
• Warden: Birla-C Hostel. BHU. 2016-17. 
• Member: Judge for Illocution (English) at Spandan. BHU. 2016, 2017.
• Coordinator: National Conference on Localization of Teaching and Testing. Sponsored by NTS-India, CIIL Mysore. November 2015.
• Director: Summer Immersion Program in India of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. June-July 2015. 
• Member: Project Review and Supervisory Group (on Machine Translation), the MHRD, Govt of India. 2012-13. 
• Organizing Secretary: 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Sponsored by BHU. 2012.
• Coordinator: NLP Workshop. Sponsored by CIIL Mysore. 2010, 2012.
• Participant: 5th Refresher Course in Environmental Studies, ASC, BHU. August 2012.
• Coordinator: Special Course of Studies, PG Diploma in Language Technology. Department of Linguistics, BHU. 2008-11.
• Participant: Summer School on Conceptual Universe of the Mahabharata. IIAS, Simla. June 2011. 
• Participant: 4th Orientation Programme (Information Technology), NEHU, Shillong. March 2009.
• Participant: BHU Summer School on Computing. April 2008.
• Participant: International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution. AU-KBCRC, Anna University. January 2008.
• Participant: Workshop on Parsing English: Paninian View. University of Hyderabad. November 2006.
• Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Linguistics: Banaras Hindu University (Nov 2005 – February 2018).
• Project Scientist: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Jan 2004 – Nov 2005). [Linguistics research for AnglaBharti and AnuBharti MT technology]
• Project Associate: Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Kanpur (Jan 2003 – Oct 2003). [Project: Computational Linguistics research for Indian Languages]
• Researcher: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Projects: Outer Siraji Grammar, Sirmauri Grammar, Andamani Hindi, (Aug 2001 – July 2002). [Linguistics field works in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands to write a report/grammar of the Andamani Hindi, Linguistics field works in Outer Siraji, Kullu and Sirmaur regions of Himachal Pradesh to finalize Outer Siraji, Kuluvi and Sirmauri grammars]