Computational Linguistics Research Group

Menaka S.

Education: Currently Ph.D, M.A. (Linguistics), Diplôme Supérieur langue et culture françaises, APGDST (Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology)

Research Area: Tamil morphology, Machine Translation, Transfer Grammer.

Publications:

Journal:

• Menaka S., Pattabhi R. K. Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi, (2011), “Automatic Identification of Cause-Effect Relations in Tamil Using CRFs”, In A. Gelbukh (ed), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Springer LNCS Vol. 6608/2011 pp 316-327
• Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pralayankar P., Kavitha V., Menaka S., (2011), “Translation of Hindi Se to Tamil in a MT syatem”, In Chandan Singh .et .al (ed), Information Systems for Indian Languages, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, CCIS, 2011, Vol. 139, Part-2, ISBN - 978-3-642-19402-3 pp 246-249
• Sobha Lalitha Devi and Menaka S., (2011), “Semantic Representation of Causality”, In Kommaluri Vijayanand, and L. Ramamoorthy, (ed), LANGUAGE IN INDIA, Vol. 11, ISSN 1930-2940


Conference Papers:
• Vijay Sundar Ram R, Menaka S and Sobha Lalitha Devi (2010), "Tamil Morphological Analyser", in "Morphological Analysers and Generators", (ed.) Mona Parakh, LDC-IL, Mysore, pp. 1 –18.
• Menaka S, Vijay Sundar Ram and Sobha Lalitha Devi (2010), "Morphological Generator for Tamil", in "Morphological Analysers and Generators", (ed.) Mona Parakh, LDC-IL, Mysore, pp. 82 –96.
• Menaka S, Sobha L (2009), "Optimising the Tamil Morphological Analyser", In 3rd National Conference on Recent Advances and Future Trends in IT - 2009(RAFIT2009), Punjabi University, Patiala, PUNJAB 9-10 April 2009
• Menaka S, Vijay Sundar Ram R, Pattabhi Ramakrishna Rao and Sobha L. (2008), "Issues with Encoding Schemes in Natural Language Processing", International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Thailand. pp 22-28.
• Menaka S, "Anaphors in French", International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution, MIT, Anna university, 15th - 17th Jan 08.

Talks:

• Invited talk, "Anaphors in French" in the International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai.
• Invited talk, "English Wordnet - An Open Source Lexicon" at the Foss Conference 2008 at the MIT Campus of Anna University.
• Invited talk, "POS Tagging using Open Source Brill's Tagger" at the Foss Conference 2008 at the MIT Campus of Anna University.
• Seminar on "Taguchi's methods" for MTech students.

Workshops/Seminars Attended:

• "Workshop on Ontology, NLP, IE and IR" (16th- 18th July 2008) at the CFILT, IIT Bombay.
• "FOSS Conference 2008" at the MIT Campus of Anna University.
• "Bilingual Dictionary Workshop" at Center for Indian Language Technology, IIT Bombay.
• "Workshop on Morphological Analysis" at CALTS, Central University, Hyderabad.
• "Multi-word expressions" by Om Dhamani at AU-KBC Research Centre.
• "Narrative Discourse: A perspective in Hindi and Telugu" by Prof. Lakshmi Bai at AU-KBC Research Centre.

Fellowships and Awards:

• Selected for UGC-JRF(University Grants Commission- Junior Research Fellowship) in Linguistics in 2007.
• Selected for the CST(Competence in Software Technology) Award at I level in CST-97.

Other information:

• Working in the organizing committee of the First Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Languages Processing (SSANLP) - collocated with COLING 2010, Beijing, to be held in August 2010.
• Participated in Automatic Content Extraction Evaluation (ACE), 2008 as a Team Member.
• Qualified the UGC-NET examination for eligibility for Lectureship in December 2006.