Pratiti Palit

Learning and Development Specialist with over 7 years of experience spanning linguistics, educational training, curriculum design, and AI-powered language research. Adept at driving skill acquisition and knowledge transfer through structured instructional methods, research support, and the development of language models and technical training programs. Proven track record in leading workshops, managing cross-functional teams, and cultivating impactful learning environments across both academic and technical settings. Contributed to a large-scale linguistic data initiative capturing phonological, lexical, and syntactic diversity across India’s 22 scheduled languages, applying variationist paradigms to guide the sampling and analysis process, ensuring that the data reflected authentic intra- and inter-language variation shaped by demographic, geographic, and socio-cultural factors. Designed and implemented and demographic filtering to generate high-quality, annotated datasets for downstream NLP applications. Skilled in translating complex concepts into clear, engaging, and actionable content that enhances learner engagement, drives audience growth, and strengthens brand authority.

• Appreciating Linguistics, AICTE, IIT Madras, 10/01/19
• Indigenous Languages & Multiculturalism, ICOIL-2, 02/01/20
• Language, Culture, Cognition, AICTE-STTP, IIT Madras, 04/01/21 - 05/31/21

• Diganta (IITM Bengali Group), Organizer & Treasurer
• NSS Volunteer, Social awareness drives, education campaigns

• Errors in Indian English: Interlanguage and Focus Constructions, IJELTS, 2018
• IndicVoices: Towards Building an Inclusive Multilingual Speech Dataset, OpenReview.net, 2025
• Variations in Language and Linguistic Identity, Dialectologia, 2025