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S.ARULMOZI Assistant Professor Mobile: +91-9441330510 Dept. of Dravidian & Computational Linguistics Residence: +91-8570-278214 Dravidian University, Kuppam 517426, India Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

 Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 1999.  PGDTS, Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 1995 (66%)  M.Phil., Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 1992 (70.8%)  M.A., Linguistics, Bharathiar University, 1990 (64.4%)  B.Sc., Chemistry, Bharathiar University, 1988. (54.6%)  H.Sc., Board of Higher Secondary Education, Tamil Nadu, 1985 (61.75%)  S.S.L.C., Board of Secondary Education, Tamil Nadu, 1983 (64.5%)

EMPLOYMENT Designation Department University/Institution Period Assistant Professor Department of Dravidian Dravidian University 29 Dec 2005 and Computational onwards Linguistics Guest Faculty Centre for ALTS University of Hyderabad 19 Jan 2005 to 28 Dec 2005 Member Research AU-KBC Research Centre Anna University 29 Dec 2000 to Staff 15 Jan 2005 Project Fellow Department of Linguistics Tamil University 21 Jan 1999 to 2 Jul 2000 Language Assistant- DoE Project Central Institute of Indian 8 Jun 1998 to Tamil Languages 31 Oct 1998

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Course Topic Research Guide Year University Ph.D. Aspects of Inflectional Prof. Probal Dasgupta 1998 University of Morphophonology: A & Dr. N. Krupanandam Hyderabad Computational Approach M.Phil. Dynamics of Translation in Prof. Probal Dasgupta 1992 University of Reconstructing Sci-Tech Hyderabad Terminologies M.A. Advertisement Headlines Prof. C.Shanmugom 1990 Bharathiar University

ACADEMIC OUTREACH

S.No. Role Topic Event Place Date 1. Resource Person BIS Tagset for Workshop on Tamil Madurai 03-03-2013 Tamil POS POS Tagging Kamaraj Tagging University 2. Resource Person Natural Workshop on Tamil International 255-02-2013 Language Computational Institute of Processing Linguistics Tamil Studies, Chennai 3. Selection Selection Committee IIIT-M, 20-12-12 Committee Meeting of ILCI Thiruvanantha Member Phase 2 project puram 4. Resource Person Tamil Workshop on Thiruvalluvar 19-12-12 Computational Classical Tamil University, Linguistics Vellore 5. BOS Member BOS Meeting University of 04-Dec-12 Mysore 6. Resource Person WordNet 5th Indo WordNet University of 23-25 July-12 Workshop Hyderabad 7. Resource Person Curriculum Workshop to Design Central 04-Jun-12 Design Curriculum on University of Linguistics & Kerala, Language Kasargod Technology 8. Invited Member Language and Symposium on Palani Andavar 11-Apr-2012 Computing Language, Computer College of Arts and Culture and Culture 9. Invited Member Evaluation of Evaluation Tamil 19-Mar-2012 ILCI Project Workshop of ILCI- University Tamil Project 10. Invited Member WordNet First Dravidian Amrita 16-17 Mar WordNet Workshop University 2012 11. Invited Member ILCI 8th ILCI Workshop Trivandrum 10-11 Mar 2012 12. Invited Member ILCI PRSG Meeting DIT, New Delhi 21-Feb-2012 13. Resource Person Lexical Workshop on Tamil SRM University 24-Jan-12 Resources Computational Linguistics 14. Invited Member Sociolinguistic Workshop on Bharathiar 5-9 Dec-11 Survey & Questionnaire University Endangered Preparation for Languages Tribal Languages 15. BOS Member BOS Meeting Mysore 02-Dec-11 University 16. Resource Person WordNet Seminar-cum- Madurai 22-Nov-11 Workshop on Kamaraj Linguistic University Knowledge in Language 2

Technology 17. Dy.Coordinator MS Innovative UGC 9-Nov-11 Computational Programme-UGC Linguistics & IT 18. Resource Person WordNet and Workshop on University of 28-30 Aug Lexical Semantics and Hyderabad 2011 Semantics WordNet 19. Reviewer Semantics The 5th International Thailand 8-13 Nov Joint Conference on 2011 NLP (Semantics Track) 20. Dy.Coordinator SAP Proposal SAP Proposal UGC 30-Jun-11 Meeting 21. Resource Person Computational Refresher Course in Bharathiar 28-May-11 Linguistics English University 22. Resource Person Natural DRW College, 31-Mar-11 to Language Gudur 1-Apr-11 Processing 23. Invited Member POS Tagging BIS-POS Tagging IIIT-Hyderabad 28-Feb-11 to Meeting 1-Mar-11 24. Invited Member Telugu ILCI 5th National ILCI Utkal 21-23 Feb-11 Corpus Workshop University 25. Reviewer & The 5th Global IIT-Bombay 31 Jan – 4- Programme WordNet Conference Feb-11 Committee Member 26. Invited Member POS-Telugu 4th ILCI Workshop Gujarat 28-30 Sep-10 University 27. Invited Member Telugu 2nd National Shillong 12-14 Apr-10 WordNet Workshop on IndoWordNet 28. Invited Member Telugu ILCI 3rd ILCI Workshop IIITM-K 9-Apr-10 Corpus 29. Resource Person Tamil POS Workshop on Central Mar-10 Grammatical Institute for Tagging in Classical Classical Tamil Tamil 30. Invited Member Telugu ILCI PRSG Meeting TDIL, GoI. 20-Nov-09 31. Tamil Expert Tamil Workshop on IIIT-Hyderabad 9-11 Jul-09 Dependency Grammar Based Scheme for Treebanks for Indian Languages 32. Invited Member Tamil Comprehensive Amrita Vishwa 11-14 Jun-09 WordNet WordNet Workshop Vidyapeetham 33. Invited Member Telugu ILCI 1st Workshop on ILCI Goa University 25-26 Mar- 09 34. Invited Member Tamil MT PRSG Meeting (ILIL IIIT-Hyderabad 23-25 Jul-08 MT) 3

35. Resource Person Computational Advanced Course in Dravidian 16-25 Mar-08 Linguistics Computational University Linguistics 36. Resource Person Natural Summer Institute, CIIL 24-25 Jun-07 Language NLSI ToolKit 37. Resource Person Tamil Cross Language University of 25-27 Feb-04 Communication Tools Madras (Machine Translation) for Indian Languages 38. Resource Person Tamil NLP All India Symposium University of 1-3 Nov-2k on Computational Madras Linguistics with Special Reference to Tamil and other Indian Languages

REFRESHER/ORIENTATION COURSES

S.No. Course Attended University Date 1. 62nd Orientation Course S.V.University 4-30 May-2009 2. Refresher Course in Language Studies Bharathiar 30-Oct-19 Nov-2008 University 3. Refresher Course in Linguistics North Eastern Hill 29 Oct–18 Nov 2012 University

WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS COORDINATED

S.No. Event Organized University Date Role 1. 2nd Dravidian WordNet Workshop Dravidian 5-6 Oct 2012 Coordinator University 2. National Seminar on Dravidian 2-4 Feb 2012 Dy.Coordinator Morphological Studies on Classical University Tamil 3. 2nd Indian Languages Corpora Dravidian 28-29 Aug- Coordinator Initiative Workshop University 09 4. National Seminar on Classicalness Dravidian 25-26 Jan-08 Coordinator of Languages: The Dravidian University Context 5. National Workshop on Dravidian 8-16 Dec-06 Coordinator Introduction to Computational University Linguistics, 6. National Workshop on WordNet AU-KBC 2-3 Jun-03 Coordinator for Dravidian Languages Research Centre 7. International Workshop Corpus- AU-KBC 17-31 Dec- Coordinator based Natural Language Research Centre 01 Processing

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

Completed Projects

 Title: Indian Languages Corpora Initiative [Telugu] Funding Agency: Dept. of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, GoI. Budget: 23 lakhs Duration: 2 years (February 2009-March 2012) Role: Principal Investigator

 Title: Telugu WordNet Funding Agency: Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India Budget: 14 lakhs Duration: 12 months (April 2009-January 2011) Role: Chief Investigator

 Title: Development of Indian Language-Indian Language MT System [Telugu-Tamil] Funding Agency: Dept. of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, GoI. Budget: 2.46 lakhs Duration: 2 years (September 2007– August 2009) Role: Coordinator

 Title: Development of VerbNet for Tamil, Individual Project carried out at Dravidian University (completed in May 2007).

 Title: Tamil WordNet to Enhance Machine Translation Funding Agency: Tamil Virtual University Budget: 4 lakhs Duration: 18 months (April 2002–October 2003) Role: Coordinator

Ongoing Projects

 Title: Telugu WordNet (Consortium Project on Dravidian WordNet) Funding Agency: Dept. of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, GoI. Budget: 30.74 lakhs Duration: 2 years (Dec 2011-Jan 2013) Role: Principal Investigator

 Title: Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Telugu) – Phase 2 Funding Agency: Dept. of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, GoI. Budget: 45.43 lakhs Duration: 30 months (Oct 2012- Mar 2015) Role: Principal Investigator

RESEARCH GUIDANCE

Name of the Student Course Title of Thesis Joining Date K.S.Rajesh Ph.D (PT) A new dynamic statistical maximum 04/09/06 – Computer likelihood alignment algorithm for Science sentence translations in bilingual Submitted corpora (Malayalam & English) on 04/01/13 G. Sushma Ph.D (PT) Language Teaching 12/11/07 Linguistics Biswanandan Dash Ph.D (PT) Globalisation and its impact on 08/08/09 Linguistics professional English communication by the technical undergraduates D.Rajarao M.Phil (FT) Computational Study of Hindi- 17/02/10 Linguistics Telugu Bilingual Corpus

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS BOOKS

 `Papers on Language Technology’, Dravidian University Publication, May 2008, (Co- Edited with Panchanan Mohanty).

DICTIONARIES

 `Common Man’s Multilingual Dictionary (6 volumes)’, Dravidian University Publication, May 2008, (Technical Coordinator).

IN JOURNALS/PROCEEDINGS

1. `Treatment of Tamil Deverbal Nouns in BIS Tagset’ (with G.Balasubramanian and S.Rajendran), Workshop on Indian Language and Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE 2012), Istanbul, 21 May 2012, 106-110. 2. `Evaluation of IL-IL Telugu-Tamil Machine Translation System’ (with M.C.Kesava Murty), Proceedings of the National Seminar on Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Annamalai University, 17-18 March 2011. 3. `Augmenting IndoWordNet with Context’ (with S.Rajendran), Proceedings of ICON-2010, IndoWordNet Workshop, 8-11 Dec 2010. 4. `Representation of Kinship in WordNet’, Proceedings of the 9th International Tamil Internet Conference, Coimbatore, 23-27 June 2010.228-234. 5. `Polysemy in Tamil and other Indian Languages’ (with Panchanan Mohanty), In. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Christiane Fellbaum & Piek Vossen (eds.). 2010. Principles. Construction and Applications of Multilingual WordNets, Mumbai: Narosa Publishers, 22-28, ISBN 978-81-8487-083-1. 6. `Telugu WordNet’, In. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Christiane Fellbaum & Piek Vossen (eds.). 2010. Principles. Construction and Applications of Multilingual WordNets, Mumbai: Narosa Publishers, 259-62, ISBN 978-81-8487-083-1. 7. `Towards Building a Computational Model for Tamil Verbal Compounds’, South Asian Language Review, Vol.17:1, Jan 2007, 28-68. 8. `tamizh coRpinnal: oor aRimukam (in Tamil)’, Dravida Malar, Nov-06-Jan-07, 32-35. 6

9. `Verb Sense Disambiguation of Simple Sentences in Telugu-Tamil MT’ (with Dr.M.C.Kesava Murty), Proceedings of the Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing in Indian Languages, IIT-Bombay, 2-4 April 2006. 10. `A Tamil Morphological Analyser’, Recent Advances in National Language Processing, 2003, 31-39, Hyderabad. 11. `Computational Morphology of Verbal Complex', Word Structure in Dravidian, Kuppam: Dravidian Univesity Publication, 2003, 376-396.Mysore. 12. `Tamil WordNet' (co-authored with Dr. S.Rajendran, et.al), Proceedings of the First Global WordNet Conference, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 21-25 January 2002. 13. `urpaniyalum te.po.mii.yum’ (coauthored with Dr. S. Rajendran), tamiz pozil, tuNar 74, malar 3, 2000, 89-97. 14. `Diglossia and Tamil: Some Sociolinguistic Observations' (co-authored with Prof. Probal Dasgupta), Indian Journal of Linguistics, Vol-19, Jan-Dec 2000.

PAPERS PRESENTED

1. `Body Parts in WordNet’, 34th Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 1-3 November 2012. 2. Ìssues in POS Tagging ILCI Telugu Corpus’ (with D.Rajarao & M.Kasim Babu), National Seminar on POS Tagging in Indian Languages – Issues and Perspectives, LDCIL-CIIL, 12- 13 December 2011. 3. Èvaluation of Telugu-Tamil Machine Translation System' (with M.C.Kesava Murty), National Seminar on Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Annamalai University, 17-18 March 2011. 4. Ègocentric Coordinates in Tamil and Telugu' (with G. Ambedkar & M.C.Kesava Murty), National Seminar on Tolkaappiya ilakkaNak kooTpaaTum piRa ilakkaNak kooTpaaTukaLum (ezhuttu, col), Periyar University, 9-11 February 2011. 5. `Representation of Kinship in WordNet’, 9th International Tamil Internet Conference, Coimbatore, 23-27 June 2010. 6. `Thematic Roles in Telugu and Tamil’, National Seminar on Comparative Dravidian Literatures, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 31 March 2010 to 3 April 2010. 7. `Polysemy in Tamil and other Indian Languages’ (with Panchanan Mohanty), Fifth Global WordNet Conference, IIT-Bombay, 31 Jan-4 Feb 2010. 8. `Telugu WordNet’, Fifth Global WordNet Conference, IIT-Bombay, 31 Jan-4 Feb 2010. 9. `Polysemy in Tamil’, National Seminar on English Language Teaching, RMK College, Chennai 7-9 August 2009. 10. Ènriching Verbs in Tamil WordNet’, National Seminar on Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 22-24 October 2006. 11. `WordNet: State of the Art’, Talk and Demonstration in VIBUDHA, Dravidian University, 26 April 2006 12. `Verb Sense Disambiguation of Simple Sentences in Telugu-Tamil MT (with Dr. M.C.Kesava Murty), Proceedings of the Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing in Indian Languages, IIT-Bombay, 2-4 April 2006. 13. `Machine Translation: An Introduction’, National Workshop on Kannada-Telugu Translation, Dravidian University, 22-26 March 2006. 14. `Tamil WordNet’, Workshop on WordNet: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects, Centre for ALTS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 24-25 February 2006. 15. À Tamil Morphological Analyser’ (with S.Viswananthan, et.al), International Conference on Natural Language Processing, IIIT, Hyderabad, 18-20 December 2003.

16. `Building Telugu WordNet as a Component of Dravidian WordNet’ (with G. Uma Maheshwar Rao & S. Rajendran), National Seminar on Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 8-10th October 2003. 17. `Tamil WordNet’ (with S.Rajendran, et.al), First Global WordNet Conference, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 21-25 January 2002. 18. `Computational Morphology of Verbal Complex’ (with S. Rajendran, et.al), National Seminar on Word Structure of Dravidian Languages, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 26- 28 November 2001. 19. `urpaniyalum te.po.mii.yum' (with S. Rajendran), T.P.M. Centenary Celebration Conference, Department of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur, 23-24 March 2000. 20. `Spell and Grammar Checker for Tamil' (with S. Rajendran and S. Boopathy), 27th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists’, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram, 17-19 June 1999. 21. `Computational Model for Tamil Verbal Compounds’, 26th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, PS Telugu University, Hyderabad, 18-20 June 1998.

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA

1. Participant, 4th World Telugu Conference, Tirupati, 27-29 Dec 2012. 2. Participant, 34th All India Conference of Linguists, 1-3 Nov 2012. 3. Participant, Five Day Summer School on Universal Networking Language Grammar Series- Indian Chapter A 1, IIT-Bombay, 11-15 June 2012 (completed CLEA 250,450,500,700 Certificates). 4. Participant, Three Day National Seminar on The History of Linguistic Studies in Telugu – In Commemoration of Francis Whyte Ellis’, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 27-29 October 2010. 5. Participant, Workshop on Indradhanush – An Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, 1-3 October 2010. 6. Participant, 9th World Tamil Internet Conference, Coimbatore. 23-27 June 2010. 7. Participant, National Seminar on Comparative Dravidian Literatures, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 31 March 2010 to 3 April 2010. 8. Participant, National Seminar on Language Education: A Critical Evaluation on Language Development Skills, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, 28-30 March 2010. 9. Participant, National Seminar on Agesthialingom, 25-27 March 2010. 10. Participant, National Conference on Machine Translation, Tamil University, 24 March 2010. 11. Participant, National Seminar on Tamil Language Computing, University of Madras, March 2010. 12. Participant, Fifth Global WordNet Conference, IIT-Bombay, 31 Jan-4 Feb 2010. 13. Participant, National Seminar on English Language Teaching, RMK College, Chennai 7-9 August 2009. 14. Participant, National Seminar on Language Teaching/Learning, University of Madras, 2- 4 March 2009. 15. Participant, Workshop on Preparation of Profile for the Endangered Languages in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 25-29 September 2008. 16. Participant, Workshop on Ontology, NLP, IE and IR, IIT-Bombay, 16-18 July 2008. 17. Participant, Preparatory Summer School for New Linguistic Survey of India (NLSI), CIIL, Mysore, 1-9 June 2007. 18. Participant, Summer School in Natural Language Processing, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore, 3-17 May 2007. 19. Participant, Symposium on Globalization: The State of Dravidian Languages, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 21 February 2007. 20. Participant, UGC-SAP Workshop on WordNet in Indian Languages, University of Hyderabad, 12-14 January 2007. 21. Participant, National Seminar on Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 22-24 October 2006. 22. Participant, Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing in Indian Languages, IIT- Bombay, 2-4 April 2006. 23. Participant, National Workshop on Kannada-Telugu Translation, Dravidian University, 22-26 March 2006. 24. Participant, Workshop on WordNet: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects, Centre for ALTS, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 24-25 February 2006. 25. Participant, National Seminar on Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 8-10th October 2003. 26. Participant, Workshop on Linguistic Annotation of Speech Corpora for Text to Speech Systems organized by IISc, Bangalore and HP Labs, Bangalore from 25th August to 5th September, 2003 27. Participant, First Global WordNet Conference, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 21-25 January 2002. 28. Participant, National Seminar on Word Structure of Dravidian Languages, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 26-28 November 2001. 29. Participant, T.P.M. Centenary Celebration Conference, Department of Linguistics, Tamil University, Thanjavur, 23-24 March 2000. 30. Participant, 26th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, PS Telugu University, Hyderabad, 18-20 June 1998. 31. Participant: NLP Advanced course in Computational Linguistics-Teacher’s Training Programme organized by Centre for ALTS, University of Hyderabad from 1 February to 5 March 1994.

ACADEMIC VISITS ABROAD

S.No. Role Topic Event Place Dates 1. Facilitator Computational Workshop on Tamil University of 9-14 July-12 Linguistics Computational Malaya, Kuala Linguistics Lumpur

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Deputy Warden Dravidian University Men’s Hostel 15.11.2007-1.8.2009

MEMBERSHIP

 Member, Project Review and Supervisory Group (PRSG), MHRD Project on Creation of Machine Translation Tools from English to Dravidian Languages, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore (from 31.05.2012)  Member, Board of Studies in Linguistics, The MS University of Baroda (from 1.9.2011) 9

 Member, Board of Studies in Linguistics, Mysore University (from 20.10.2010)  Life Member, Dravidian Linguistics Association  Life Member, Linguistic Society of India  Life Member, Journal of Tamil Studies

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIP/RANK

 Award for the best research paper presented at the 26th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists held at the PS Telugu University, Hyderabad during 18-20 June 1998.  Merit Scholarship for Ph.D. research work from the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from September 1995 to September 1997.  First rank in M.Phil 1992  Award for the President Scout in the year 1984.

AREAS OF INTEREST

 Computational Linguistics, Corpus Studies, WordNet, Lexical Semantics

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 4 February 1968 Marital Status: Married Religion: Hindu Nationality: Indian Passport No.:E7291790