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AU-KBC RESEARCH CENTRE

Dr. G. Bharadwaja Kumar

 

                                    

Areas of Research

Natural language processing, Speech processing, Image processing, Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

 

Positions Available

M.S and Ph.D

 

Projects can be guided

B. Tech, M.C.A., M.S. and M. Tech. projects in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Speech processing

 

Currently on going projects

DST  Young Scientist Project "Exploring better language models for Indian language speech processing",

started April 2009

Speech recognition for Tamil and Telugu languages

 

Recent Works

Built Tamil Connected Word Speech Recognition systems of  4000 words

Currently Working on

Continuous Speech Recognition for Tamil

Telugu Connected Word and Continuous Speech Recognition

 

Education

Ph. D. (Computer Science) from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 2007.

M. Phil. (Computational Physics) from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 1999.

B. Ed. (Physical Sciences) from Andhra University, Vizag, India, 1998.

M. Sc. (Nuclear Physics) from Andhra University, Vizag, India, 1997.

 

Journal Publications

 

G Bharadwaja Kumar, Kavi Narayana Murthy, B B Chaudhuri, "Statistical Analysis of Telugu Text Corpora'', In IJDL, Vol 36, No 2, June 2007.

 

Kavi Narayana Murthy, G Bharadwaja Kumar, "Language Identification from Small Text Samples", Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Vol 13, No. 1, pp. 57-80, 2006.

 

Conference Publications

 

G. Bharadwaja Kumar and Kavi Narayana Murthy, "UCSG: A Wide Coverage Shallow Parsing System", Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, January 2008.

 

G Bharadwaja Kumar and Kavi Narayana Murthy, "UCSG Shallow Parser", Proceedings of CICLing-2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3878, pp 156-167, Springer-Verlag , 2006.

 

Hla Hla Htay, G. Bharadwaja Kumar, Kavi Narayana Murthy, "Constructing English- Myanmar Parallel Corpora" Proceedings of ICCA 2006: International Conference on Computer Applications, pp 231-238, Yangon, Myanmar, 23-24 February 2006.

 

G. Bharadwaja Kumar, Kavi Narayana Murthy,”Towards a Robust Shallow Parser”, SIMPLE 2005, /pp 33-39, IIT Kharagpur, Feb 5-7, 2005.

 

G. Bharadwaja Kumar, Kavi Narayana Murthy, “Script Independent Language

Identification in the Indian Context”, Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Language Technology (ICLST- 2004), TATA-McGraw-Hill  publishers, Pages 74-82, 2004.

 

G. Bharadwaja Kumar, K. Venu, V.S.S. Sastry, K.P.N. Murthy, “Isotropic-Nematic transition in porous media: A Monte Carlo study”, NATO Advanced workshop on Computer Simulation of Defects in Liquid Crystals, Erice, Italy, 2000.

 

 

Fellowships and Awards

U.P.E. Doctoral Fellowship during 2004-07.

 

DE Shaw Doctoral fellowship during 2002-03.

 

 

Memberships

Life member of Dravidian Linguistics Association