Name: M. C. KESAVA MURTY Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D in Applied Linguistics Speciali
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Name: M. C. KESAVA MURTY Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D in Applied Linguistics Specialization: Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Lexical Semantics E-mail Address: [email protected] http://dravidianuniversity.ac.in/cvs/linguistics/MCKM_CV.pdf Specific Details: No. of Seminars Organized 4 No. of Workshops Organized 4 No. of Seminar papers 25 No. of Workshops attended 28 No. of Guest lectures/Resource 09 Person No. of Research Articles 08 Articles in Edited Books/Volumes 6 + Six volumes Dictionary Books 01 No. of Projects Completed 8, Ongoing 1 No. of Research Students Submitted-1, Pursuing -5 No. of M.A. Dissertations 3 EDUCATIONAL PROFILE: Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 2004. Topic: Argument Structure of Telugu Verbs. The thesis deals with the Computational Implementation of Verb Sense Disambiguation, using the argument structure of verbs for the English-Telugu Machine Translation system. M.Phil. Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, 1996. Topic: A Prototype Machine Readable Telugu-English Dictionary of Occupational Terminology for Translators. M.A., Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 1993. Dissertation entitled Evaluation of Telugu-Bharati Text books (Telugu Primers [I-V Standards]- A Case Study. 1993. B.Sc., Biology, Chemistry and Hindi, Silver Jubilee Government Residential College, Kurnool, S.V. University, Tirupati, 1989. Hindi Pradhamika and Maadhyamika. REFRESHER/ORIENTATION COURSES ATTENDED: Attended UGC Sponsored Short Term Course organized by HRDC, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, during 15/12/2017 to 21/12/2018. Attended 10 day Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) – British Council English Communication Skills Project on Teacher Training Programme held at Kuppam Engineering College, Kuppam for Block -1 and Block -2 during 10.07.2017 to 14.07.2017 and 24.07.2017 to 28.07.2017. Attended the Refresher Course in Linguistics Organized by North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, during 29, October to 18, November, 2012. Attended the Orientation Course in 62nd Orientation Programme at the Academic Staff College, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during 04, May 2009 to 30, May 2009. Attended the Refresher Course in Historical & Comparative Linguistics Organized by Central Institute of Indian Languages during 22, January to 14, February, 2009. RESEARCH GUIDANCE: Four (6) Ph.D (pursuing) Three (3) M.A. Dissertations (completed) PROJECT ONGOING: Title: Documentation of Central Dravidian Languages Funding Agency: UGC (SAP-DRS -1) Budget: 39 lakhs Duration: 5 Years (Feb, 2014- Feb 2019) Role: Deputy Coordinator PROJECTS COMPLETED: Title: Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Telugu) – Phase 2 Funding Agency: Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India Consortia Leader: Prof. Girish Nath Jha, JNU, New Delhi Budget: 45.43 lakhs Duration: 21.03.2012 to 20.01.2017 (Completed) Role: Principal Investigator 2 http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/ilciann/index.jsp Title: Telugu WordNet Phase-2 (Consortium Project on Dravidian WordNet) Funding Agency: Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India Consortia Leader: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT, Bombay Budget: 30.74 lakhs Duration: 2 years (Dec 2011- Dec, 2015) (Completed) Role: Principal Investigator http://tdil-dc.in/indowordnet/ Title: Indian Languages Corpora Initiative [Telugu] Funding Agency: Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, GoI. Consortia Leader: Prof. Girish Nath Jha, JNU, New Delhi Budget: 23 lakhs Duration: 2 years (February 2009-March 2012) (Completed) Role: Co - Principal Investigator http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/ilcicct/index.jsp Title: Valency Lexicon of Telugu Verbs Funding Agency: UGC-Minor Research Project Budget: 1.5 lakhs Duration: 18 months (February 2011 to August 2012) (Completed) Role: Chief Investigator Title: Telugu WordNet Phase -1 Funding Agency: Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India Consortia Leader: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT, Bombay Budget: 14 lakhs Duration: 12 months (April 2009-January 2011) (Completed) Role: Co-Principal Investigator http://tdil-dc.in/indowordnet/ Title: Development of Indian Language-Indian Language MT System (ILIL-MT) [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: Co-Coordinator Title: Semantic Similarities and Verb Sense Disambiguation in Telugu Funding Agency: Individual Project carried out at Dravidian University Duration: 2 Years (Completed in December, 2007) 3 Role: Chief Investigator Title: Compilation of Dictionary in Linguistics Funding Agency: UGC Budget: 1.4 lakhs Duration: 1 year and 6 Months (February 2009-March 2012) Role: Co- Principal Investigator SEMINARS ORGANISED: Organized 9th National Telugu Linguist’s Forum (TeLF) Conference in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore and Dravidian University, Kuppam during 7th – 8th March, 2018 at Dravidian University, Kuppam. Organized a Two-day UGC-SAP-DRS-1 National Seminar on ‘Dravidian Tribal Linguistics: Retrospect & Prospects 26th-27th March, 2015 at Dravidian University, Kuppam. Organized a One-day Lecture series on ‘First Grammars of Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam Written in Sanskrit’ on 21st March 2012 at Dravidian University, Kuppam. Coordinator for the three-day National Seminar on The History of Linguistic Studies in Telugu, organized in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) during 27-29, October 2010. WORKSHOPS ORGANISED: Organized a Twenty-day Workshop on Survey and GIS Mapping of Endangered Languages of Andhra Pradesh (Ramakuppam & Kuppam Mandal) during 11/03/2019 to 31/03/2019. Organized a Five-day National Workshop on ‘Standardization of IT Enabled Transcription, Glossing and Meta-language for Dravidian Languages’ during 6th – 10th March, 2017 at Dravidian University, Kuppam. Organized a Two-day Workshop on ‘Telugu WordNet’ during 14-15 December 2013 at Dept. of Dravidian & Computational Linguistics. Dravidian University, Kuppam. Coordinator for a Ten-day workshop on Advanced Course in Computational Linguistics in collaboration with CIIL, Mysore during 16-25th March 2008, held at Dravidian & Computational Linguistics, Dravidian University. PUBLICATIONS: PAPERS 2016. Prelude to the Argument Structure of Telugu Verbs. In Dravidian Studies (A peer reviewed Quarterly Research Journal) Dravidian University. 2014. Paper entitled Language as the Fabric of the Web. Proceedings of Recent Trends in Web Sciences. ISSN No. 978-93-82829-99-7. with Ganesan Ambedkar and M. Prasad Naik. 2013. In defense of Liberal Methods to Language Documentation. In Language Endangerment in South Asia (ed). by M. Ganesan. Annamalai University. Annamalai Nagar. Pp.150-156. UGC-SAP-CAS-IV. ISBN No. 978-81-925538-0- 1. with Ganesan Ambedkar, Jayalalitha, Shivakumar, B and LakshmiDevi, S. 2012b. Dimensions of Kannada Locatives. In. uRavu. A festschrift to Prof. S. Arulraj. pp 237-252. ISBN 978-81-909442- 1-2. 4 with Ganesan Ambedkar. 2011c. Di-phones for Telugu TTS. In. The proceedings of a National Seminar on New Perspectives in Applied Linguistics. (ed). Natarajan, A.G, Saranya, R and Manimaran, P. Annmalai University. Annamalai Nagar. Pp.57-59. UGC-SAP-CAS-IV. with Ganesan Ambedkar and Prasad, Naik. 2011. Telugu Locativity and GPS: User Interface approach. In. The proceedings of a National Seminar on New Perspectives in Applied Linguistics. (ed). Natarajan, A.G, Saranya, R and Manimaran, P. Annamalai University. Annamalai Nagar. Pp.60-63. UGC-SAP-CAS-IV. Verb Sense Disambiguation of Simple Sentences in Telugu-Tamil MT (With Dr. S. Arulmozi), Proceedings of the symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing in Indian languages, IIT- Bombay, 2-4 April 2006. Paper entitled Translatability of Occupational Terms in the Indian Linguistics Journal, Vol. 63, Number 1-4 December 2002, pp123-127. BOOKS/VOLUMES 2018. Valency Lexicon Frames of Telugu Verbs. A Festschrift for Prof. N. Kripanandam. (Eds.) Parameswari Krishnamurthy & Sampath Babu Tokala. KY Publications. Guntur. ISBN: 978- 93-87769-37-3. 2017. Thematic Roles and Relative prominence in Telugu. In Fabric of Indian Linguistics –A Festschrift in honor of Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh. Ed. by Shailendra Kumar Singh et.al.. ISBN: 978-93-82120-84-1. with Arulmozi, S. 2016. entitled Building Telugu WordNet using Expansion Approach. In ‘The WordNet in Indian Languages’. Ed. Volume by Niladri Sekhar Dash, Pushpak Bhattacharya et.al. Springer, Singapore. Pp 201-208. ISBN: 978-981-10-1907-4, Online ISBN: 978-981- 10-1909-8. With Ganesan Ambedkar. 2016. telugu varNaalatO taarkika paddhatulu. (Verbal Reasoning in Telugu for Competitive Exams). Published by Diksuchi Publications. Ananthapur, India. ISBN: 978-81-910396-6-5. 2011. Compiler. Eds. Kadapa Ramanaiah. vajrakōSam in Telugu. Published by Prasaaranga of Dravidian University, Kuppam. ISBN: 978-93-81112-17-5. 2008. Compiler. 6 Common Man’s Multilingual Dictionaries involving the languages Telugu- Kannada-Tamil-Malayalam-Tulu-English. Eds. G. Lakshminarayana. Published by Dravidian University, Kuppam.