Basudha Das

• Experienced linguist with Masters' degree in Applied Linguistics and Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics from a renowned University.
• Having over 6 years of experience in the Artificial Intelligence Industry, working for Google Assistant.
• Detailed knowledge and experience to work in Natural Language Processing (NLP), devised to work in both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) .
• University topper with excellent knowledge in the structural aspects of language specifically phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
• Excellent reputation for understanding language-specific linguistic challenges and resolving problems in order to improve product accuracy and client-customer satisfaction.
• Good in communication and managing teams, with expertise in focusing multiple projects with varied priorities, and completing the targeted tasks within hard deadlines, yet maintaining high quality and accuracy of the product performance.
• A fast learner of new language technologies required for company-specific targets and goals.
• Solid understanding of conventional phonetic notations (IPA) and over 7 years of experience to work in the Govt project of Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI, Phase I&II) for different languages spoken in India in terms of collecting field data, phonetically transcribing through IPA and writing grammar by macro-analysis.
• Experienced in running Python scripts on training data and debugging the language-specific losses in order to achieve the required score and accuracy on the test data.
• Having basic knowledge of Python used used for Natural langauge Processing through NLTK.
• Currently pursuing an online course from Udemy to achieve deeper understanding on Python, NLTK, Spacy, and other tools/libraries.

Publications: National

• ‘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).

International

● ‘The Strategy of ‘Do-Construction’ For Introducing English Verbs in Bangla-English Codeswitching

Papers presented in seminars:

• ‘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

• French (Basic)

Interests: Music and Art, History, reading and travelling.

Nationality: Indian

Date of Birth: 18th September, 1983.

Address (Permanent) Basudha Das

2nd Floor, 76/C, Raimohan Banerjee Road

Kolkata – 700108

West Bengal.