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Basudha Das

Artificial Intelligence Project Manager
Kolkata,West Bengal

Summary

  • Experienced Linguist with over 5 years of experience in the Artificial Intelligence industry.
  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and willingness to take on added responsibilities to reach team goals and customer satisfaction.
  • Seeking a full-time position that offers professional and linguistic challenges and the opportunity to contribute in the industry through interpersonal, problem-solving, and time management skills.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project Manager (Senior Linguist)

Cognizant Technology Solutions deployed at Google India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2016 - Current
  • Creating, analyzing, evaluating, and managing natural language data through Lemmatization, Word segmentation, Annotation, Parsing, and Word sense disambiguation
  • Understanding intricacies of problems and solving them as per client's requirements and market standard
  • Creating and implementing linguistic rules to develop complex grammar of the target language in the target domain through pattern learning, induced rules and nested arguments
  • Testing, evaluating, and validating the grammars on real-time user data
  • Deep error analysis and handling query losses with functional understanding of natural language generation (NLG) and natural language understanding (NLU) parameters

Research Scholar (Freelancer)

Language Division, Office of the Registrar General, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India
Kolkata, West Bengal
06.2008 - 06.2016

‘Mother Tongue Survey of India – Phase II'

  • Extensive field work for data collection of the assigned mother tongues in different parts of India
  • Phonetic transcription of the data including on-site evaluations
  • Thorough macro-analysis of data with high quality and precision
  • Comparison with neighboring mother tongues and evaluating solidarity.
  • Developing reports on the mother tongue’s phonological, morphological, syntactic structure.

Project Linked Person

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Dept. of CVPR (Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition)
Kolkata, West Bengal
11.2012 - 06.2013

'Converting Messaging Text into English Text Suitable for Sentimental Analysis'

  • The work involved thorough investigation of corpus and research in the stylistic evolution in digital text writing
  • Preparation of an exhaustive list of recurring style of English writing in messages.
  • Converting those text messages into simple English texts.
  • Developing linguistic rules regarding structural patterns of the messages.
  • Preparing list of abbreviations and acronyms.
  • Sentimental Analysis.

Junior Project Officer

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, (Midnapore, West Bengal)
Kharagpur, West Bengal
08.2011 - 11.2012

'Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation: ILM-Phase 2'

  • The work involved preparing exhaustive list of possible language structures out of Bengali and Hindi corpus.
  • Analyzing simple to complex structures of Bengali and Hindi language.
  • Preparing linguistic rules for various structural patterns.
  • Developing translational rules from Bengali to Hindi and vice-versa.
  • Applying the rules in the Machine Translation System.
  • Testing and evaluating machine translated texts

Research Project Fellow (UPE Project)

University of Calcutta, Dept. of Linguistics
Kolkata, West Bengal
05.2009 - 07.2011

'Defining Key Concepts in Linguistics: A Bilingual Approach with Text-Machine Interface'

  • Defining Key concepts in Linguistics with short but informative notes for dictionary purpose, involving extensive research from different sources
  • Citing instances from Indian Languages
  • Translation in Bengali and Digital documentation.

Education

Ph.D. - Linguistics

University of Calcutta
Kolkata
03.2014 - 04.2018

Master of Arts - Linguistics

University of Calcutta
Kolkata
08.2005 - 08.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics (Honours)

University of Calcutta
Kolkata
04.2002 - 04.2005

Higher Secondary - Arts

Taki Gov. Girls High School
Kolkata
04.2000 - 03.2002

Madhyamik (Secondary Education) - Arts And Science Subjects

Holy Child Institute For Girls
Kolkata
08.1994 - 03.2000

Skills

    Linguistic knowledge in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, translation, machine translation

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Accomplishments

    Publications:

  • ‘Function of Code-switching in Bangla/English Bilingual Speech: The case of a Group of Youngsters in Kolkata’ in ‘Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies’, Vol.1, No. 1-2, Jan Dec 2012, ISSN: 2231-4075. (Joint paper).
  • ‘Code-switching as a Communicative Strategy in Conversation’ in the ‘Global Media Journal- Indian Edition’ Sponsored by the University of Calcutta, ISSN 2249-5835, Winter Issue/December 2012, Volume: 3/Number:2 (E-publication).
  • ‘The Strategy of ‘Do-Construction’ For Introducing English Verbs in Bangla-English Codeswitching' in 'Beekkha', Vol. 2, No. 1, ISSN 2395-5872
  • Papers presented in seminar:

  • ‘Evaluation of Linguistic Constraints on Codeswitching in Bangla-English Bilingual Speech’ in Seventh Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-7, 2013), at Aligarh Muslim University.
  • Poster presentation (Joint) on ‘English Verb in Bangla-English Code-switching’ in Sixth Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-6, 2012), at Benaras Hindu Univesity.
  • ‘Evaluation of the Matrix Language Hypothesis: Patterns of nominal constituents in Bangla-English code-switching phenomena’ (Joint paper), in All India Conference of Linguistics (33rd AICL, 2011), at Panjab University, Chandigarh.
  • Awards & Achievements:

    • Qualified National Eligibility Test (Lectureship) in June, 2011.

    • Gold Medal for M.A., 2007.

    • Nominated for National Merit Scholarship of Government of India for the result of B.A. 2005.

    Languages Known:

    • English

    • Bengali

    • Hindi

Interests

Arts and History, Travelling, Reading, Sports, Yoga

Timeline

Project Manager (Senior Linguist)

Cognizant Technology Solutions deployed at Google India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
07.2016 - Current

Ph.D. - Linguistics

University of Calcutta
03.2014 - 04.2018

Project Linked Person

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Dept. of CVPR (Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition)
11.2012 - 06.2013

Junior Project Officer

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, (Midnapore, West Bengal)
08.2011 - 11.2012

Research Project Fellow (UPE Project)

University of Calcutta, Dept. of Linguistics
05.2009 - 07.2011

Research Scholar (Freelancer)

Language Division, Office of the Registrar General, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India
06.2008 - 06.2016

Master of Arts - Linguistics

University of Calcutta
08.2005 - 08.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics (Honours)

University of Calcutta
04.2002 - 04.2005

Higher Secondary - Arts

Taki Gov. Girls High School
04.2000 - 03.2002

Madhyamik (Secondary Education) - Arts And Science Subjects

Holy Child Institute For Girls
08.1994 - 03.2000
Basudha DasArtificial Intelligence Project Manager