Pitambar Behera
Name: Pitambar Behera
Qualification: Ph.D. (contd)
Designation: Assistant Professor in English (OES-I)
Department: Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha
College address: Rangadhipa, Sundargarh, Odisha, PIN-770002
Award for: Research Excellence Award/ Young Achiever Award-2020
Publication title: Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics
Paper Title: Issues and Challenges in Developing Statistical POS Taggers for Sambalpuri
Journal Name: Springer, Cham
Volume: 10930
Issue No.:
month of publication: June
Year: 2018
page no.: 393-406
ISSN: 978-3-319-93782-3
About Pitambar Behera
I am currently pursuing my Doctorate degree entitled “A Study of Pa? ninia? n and Tesni`ere’s Dependency Frameworks for Language Processing with Reference to Discontinuous Dependencies in Hindi and Odia” in the Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (SLL & CS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. I have completed my M.Phil. Degree entitled “Odia Parts of SpeechTagging Corpora:Suitability of Statistical Models” from JNU. Prior to that, I have completed my M.A. in English from Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur, Odisha, India & B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education) in ELT (English Language Teaching) from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. In addition, I have completed a few online certificate courses on Python and R computer languages for statistical programming. So far as my research experience is concerned, I do have around 4 years of industrial research experience working as a Linguist, with the ILCI project by the TDIL, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, as a Speech Annotator at ezDI and Linguist at Google Inc., Bangalore, India. I further possess one and a half year of teaching experience, employed as an OES-I officer cum Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Govt. College, Sundargarh-770002, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha, India. To my credit, I have published 34 research papers pertaining to linguistics, computational linguistics, endangered languages, literature, ELT in Indian languages. My research interests broadly include thetheoretical and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Indic Languages. In addition, I have a keen interest on Discourse Analysis, Theoretical Translation, Critical Theories in Literature, International varieties of English and language philosophy. In particular, I conduct research in the areas of POS annotation (applying CRF & SVM), chunking, parsing: Structural and dependency (Phrase-Structure, Structural and Paninian), Named Entity Recognizer (NER), Multi- word Expressions, Machine Translation, online natural language platforms, Less-resourced languages, Language Documentation, E-resource building for endangered and lesser-known languages. These research papers pertain to the afore-mentioned research areas published by publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Scopus-indexed, UGC CARE-listed journals and so on.
I have also chaired a few sessions at state-level and national level seminars and conferences. I have also delivered a few invited talks as a resource person to national and international workshops, seminars and conferences. There are a few developed resources (first two POS taggers, tagset, corpus, lexicon, NER for Sambalpuri, two Odia POS taggers with best accuracy), one of the first of their kind, to my credit. I have also been a lifetime member of a few societies such as Linguistic Society of India, International Conference of Natural Language Processing, Dravidian Linguistic Association and presently Institute of Scholars (InSc).