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Dr. B. Mallikarjun

  Academic qualification:

M A in Linguistics (1973    Karnataka University)
First class, Second Rank

Ph D in Linguistics (1983 Karnataka University)
A Descriptive Analysis of Yerava
  Trained in:

 

 

 

Lexicography

1977 Kerala University

03 weeks

Adult Literacy

1979 CIIL

04  weeks

Computer Applications

1992 NIIT

17 weeks in dBase

1993 Brilliants

04 weeks in WS, MS DOS, MS Word, Power Point On the job training

Effective Communication Skills

1995 LBSNAA

01 week

Personnel Management

1996 ISTM, DPAR, GoI

01 week

e-Book Publishing

2004 Institute of Book Publications, Delhi

4 days

Values in Administration

2004 ISTM, DPAR,
Government of India

01 week

Educational Excellence

2007 IIM, Calcutta

3 days

Development of SLMs for
Distance and online learning

 2007 IGNOU, New Delhi 01 week

Mentoring Skills

2009 National Academy for Training and Research in Social Security,
New Delhi                                  
03 days
 

Positions held:

 

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1. Reader cum Research Officer & Head, Centre for Classical Kannada

From 8, 2010 till date
2. Reader cum Research Officer & Head, Centre for Language Technology & Head of the  Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages [LDC -IL]

Feb 20, 2007 to March 31, 2010
3.

Assistant Director(Admin.) i/c,Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore

 June 1, 2005 to April 27, 2007
4. Director State Resource Center for Adult Education, Karnataka, India May 21, 1991 to Sep 30, 1991
5. Reader cum Research OfficerCorrespondence course in Kannada Oct 16, 1985 to Oct 15, 1990
6. Academic Secretary Jan 18, 1982 to Oct 15, 1985
Oct 16, 1990 to May 20, 1991
Oct 01, 1991 to Feb 19, 2007
7. Research Assistant Nov 05, 1973 to Jan 17, 1982
8. Investigator Aug 06, 1973 to Oct 06, 1973
 

Awards:

1.

The best administrative Kannada literature for audyamika Kannada awarded by the Government of Karnataka, 1989.
2.

The best monograph on Dravidian Tribes for A descriptive analysis of Yerava awarded by the International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 1995.
 


Participation in professional conferences/seminars/workshops/meetings abroad:

1.

Munich, Germany to participate in the International Conference on Maintaining Language Diversity in the Face of Globalization organized by the Eufo Institute, Germany, January 2003. Presented a paper on ‘Globalization and Indian Languages.’ 

2.

Budapest, Hungaryto participate in the Tenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL03) from April 12 to 17, 2003.  Presented a referred and accepted paper ‘Corpora in Minor Languages of India: Some Issues’ in the Workshop on “Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages- Expanding Synergies.”

3.

Regensburg, GermanyduringJuly 2003 to participate in the First Conference cum Presentation of “Inter-lingual communication by representing the mother tongue in COD” at the Invitation of the Eufo-Institute, Regensburg held at the University of Regensburg.
4.

Katmandu, Nepal, from January 5-7, 2004. SCALLA 2004 to participate in the Working Conference: Crossing the Digital Divide - Shaping Technologies to Meet Human Needs and presented a paper on “Indian Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Digital Divide”.
5.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 5 to 8, 2004. Presented a paper on “Fifty Years of Language Planning for Modern Hindi: The Official Language of India” in the Congress of World’s Major Languages at the invitation of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Malayasia.

6.

Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 23 to October 3, 2006 to teach in the Workshop on Second National Language Curriculum Development conducted by the National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka.
7.

Moka, Mauritius, April 17 to 22, 2007 to participate in the Project Advisory Committee meeting of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Moka, Mauritius collaborative programme.
8.

Beijing, China, March 26 - 27, 2009 to participate in the UNESCO Expert Meeting on Cyber Networking for Language Learning organized by UNESCO and Government of China.
 

Research Projects completed and in progress undertaken (other than that for a research degree)

Subject of Research

Date of Commencement

Date of Completion

Creating Contemporary 20 million word Balanced Hindi Corpora and Tagging

April 14, 2005

April 13, 2008

Creating text corpora of contemporary Bengali, Hindi and Manipuri

April 11, 2005

Oct , 2005

Creating speech corpora of contemporary Bengali, Hindi and Manipuri

Nov 1, 2005

May 15, 2006

Creating speech corpora of Contemporary Urdu and Kashmiri

September 24, 2007

March 31, 2008

Localisation of Language Inter phase Pack 0.3 and Windows  into Indian languages

June 1, 2009

Continuing

Localisation of Windows Live into Indian languages

June 1, 2009

Continuing

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PUBLICATION:

Books in English
  1. Vocabulary Education. Mysore: Vagdevi pustakagaLu. 1985. Modified version available on the net at http://www.languageinindia.com 2002.
  2. Language Use in Administration and National Integration. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) 1986.
  3. A Descriptive Analysis of Yerava. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.1993.
  4. Readability of Text books in Indian Languages (With others), A World Bank project. Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training 1995.
  5. Indian Languages and Part-of-Speech Annotation (With others). Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages. Mysore.2010.
Books in Kannada
  1. modala hejje.  (with S.S.Yadurajan) On teaching Kannada as first language in schools. Mysore: CIIL. 1985
  2. sari hejje.  On error analysis. Mysore: CIIL. 1987
  3. hosa hejje.  (with S. S. Yadurajan) On teaching Kannada to the children of linguistic minorities. Mysore: CIIL. 1988
  4. Kannada shaili kaipiDi. (with others)  Kannada Style Manual. Hampi: Prasaaraanga, Kannada University and  Mysore: CIIL.1995
  5. nirantara.  (with  S. S. Yadurajan) On teaching Kannada in the secondary schools.  Mysore: CIIL. 2000.
  1. samakaaliina.  On using newspapers in language education. Mysore: CIIL. 2000
Manuals and books to teach Kannada 
  1. Kannada nuDi (Level 1). State level school reader in Kannada for Non-Kannada speaking students. Mysore: CIIL. 1981.
  2. byankinavarige Kannada (with K. R. Sadanand). Kannada for bank Employees. Mysore: CIIL. 1984.
  3. Kannada baaradavarige ance muulaka KannaDa paaThagaLu. Lessons to teach Kannada to those government employees who do not know Kannada. Mysore: CIIL and Bangalore: Directorate of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka.1985. (Reprinted 3 times, revised and reprinted in 1998).
  4. Kannada citra padakoosha.  A pictorial glossary in Kannada. Mysore: CIIL and Bangalore: Directorate of Kannada and Culture, 1986.
  5. aaDaLita Kannada abhyaasa pustaka. (With others). A work book on administrative Kannada. Mysore: CIIL and Bangalore: Directorate of Kannada and Culture, 1986.
  6. audyamika Kannada. (With S. S. Yadurajan) on Industrial Kannada. Mysore: CIIL and Bangalore: Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd. 1989.
  7. Kannada bharati - 1 to 4. (With others). The first language Kannada readers for first to fourth standards in the primary schools of Karnataka. Bangalore: Directorate of Text books, Govt of Karnataka. 1989-93.
  8. sooliga siddhi - 1. (With others) a text book to teach Soliga, a tribal language to the First standard Soliga children. Bangalore: District Primary Education Program. 1999.
  9. aaDaLita Kanada kaaryashibirada kaipidi (with others)A Manual of Administrative Kannada. Hampi: Kannada University and Bangalore: Kannada Development Authority, Govt. of Karnataka. 2009.
Edited volumes in Kannada and Dogri 
  1. paalgoLLalu kaliyiri. Learning for participation. Mysore: State Resource Centre.1991.
  2. South Asian Language Review, Vol.5 No.2, June 1995. Special Issue on the future of linguistics in India (with E. Annamalai)
  3. girijana samskruti darshana. An overview of tribal culture, (with others). Bangalore: District Primary Education Program. 1998.
  4. Linguistics Curriculum. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1999.
  5. KannaDa vishvakoosha- bhaashe. Kannada Encyclopedia - Language. (with K.V. Narayan)  Hampi.
  6. dogrishaili. Dogri Style Manual. Mysore and Jammu, Dogri Sansthan and Central Institute of Indian Languages. 2008.
Papers in English
  1. Role of radio and newspaper in the National Adult Education Program. 1979.  Indian Journal of Adult Education. Vol. 40, No.3, pp.43-45.
  2. Text book and Adult Education, 1980. Indian Journal of Adult Education. Vol.40, No.5, pp.19-21.
  3. Causative constructions in Kannada (with K Rangan) 1982. R.C.Hiremath Felicitation volume, edited by M. M. Kalburgi. Dharwar: Prasaranga, Karnatak University. pp.151-158.
  4. A language movement in Karnataka. 1985. In Profiles in Indian Languages and Literatures, edited by Arunkumar Biswas. Kanpur: Indian Languages Society. pp.264-279.
  5. General and need based second language courses. 1989. International Review of Applied   Linguistics. Vol. 40, No.5, pp.230-233.
  6. The Eighth Schedule Languages - A Critical appraisal. 1995. In Language and the State: Perspectives in the Eighth Schedule, edited by R.S.Gupta., New Delhi: Creative Books. pp.61-83.
  7. Language policy and Translation in Karnataka.1997. In Translation and Multilingualism, edited by Shanta Ramakrishna. Delhi: Pencraft International. pp.108-115.
  8. Kannada Development: An Overview. 1998.  In Goals and Strategies of Development in Indian Languages. edited by B.D.Jayaram and K.S.Rajyashree. Mysore: CIIL. pp.37-50.
  9. Evolution of Language Policy for Education in Karnataka. 2001. In Papers in Applied Linguistics -I edited by K.S.Rajyashree and Udaya Narayana Singh. Mysore: CIIL. pp. 122-145.
  10. Language of Administration. 2001. In Papers in Applied Linguistics - II. edited by K. Srinivasacharya and Udaya Narayana Singh. Mysore: CIIL. pp.75-82.
  11. Information Technology and Kannada.2001. Language in India, Volume1:1 March.
  12. Language According to Census of India 2001. 2001. Language in India, Volume, 1:2 April.
  13. Bilingualism and Census of India 2001.2001. Language in India, Volume1:3 May.
  14. Languages in the School Curriculum: Challenges of the New Millennium.2001. Language in India, Volume1:4 June- July -August.
  15. Linkages for the education of the Minorities, Karnataka: A Case Study. 2001. Language in India, Volume1:5 September.
  16. Approach Paper on Content Creation for Mother tongue Teaching CDs in Indian Languages. 2001. Mysore: CIIL.
  17. Bringing order to Linguistic Diversity: Language Planning in the British Raj. 2001. Language in India, Volume 1:6 October.
  18. Languages of India According to the 1991 Census. 2001. Language in India, Volume 1:7 November.
  19. A Multilingual Approach towards Language Teaching in Indian Schools. 2002. Language in India, Volume 2:1 March.
  20. Mother Tongues of India According to the 1961 Census. 2002. Language in India, Volume 2: 5 August.
  21. Language Policy for Education in Indian States: Karnataka. 2002. Language in India, Volume 2:9 December.
  22. Globalization and Indian Languages.2003. In Linguistic Cultural Identity and International Communication. Ed. by Johann Vielberth and Guido Drexel. Saarbrucken: AQ-Verlag. pp.23-46.
  23. Corpora in Minor Languages of India: Some Issues. 2003. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages-Expanding Synergies. Ed. by Pat Hall and Durgesh Rao. East Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. pp 35-42.
  24. Indian Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Digital Divide.2004. Proceedings of the SCALLA 2004 Working Conference: Crossing the Digital Divide - Shaping Technologies to Meet Human Needs.
  25. Strangers in Their Own Land! Campbell's Defense of Indian Vernaculars Against Lord Macaulay's Minute with M.S.Thirumalai. 2004. Language in India. Volume 4, February.
  26. An Exploration into Linguistic Majority-Minority Relations in India.2004.Languae in India. Volume 4, August.
  27. Sind, Sindhi, and Ethnic Slur with M.S.Thirumalai.2004. Language in India. Volume 4. September.
  28. Fifty Years of Language Planning for Modern Hindi: The Official Language of India. 2004. Language in India. Volume 4. December.
  29. Morphological Processing of Kannada Verbs. 2005. Proceedings of the Workshop on Morphology. Indian Institute of Technology. Mumbai.
  30. The Evolution of Language Policy in the Constituent Assembly of India with M.S.Thirumalai.2006. Language in India. Volume 5. March.
  31. A Peek into Some of the Linguistic Ideas of Early Gandhi with M.S.Thirumalai.2006. Language in India. Volume 6. June.
  32. Teaching and Learning Language through Distance Education: Kannada for Administrators: A Case Study. 2009. Language in India. Volume 9. July.
  33. Spelling Variations in Kannada. 2009. Language in India. Volume 9. October.
  34. Patterns of Indian Multilingualism.2010. Language in India. Volume 10. July.
  35. Right to Education and Indian Langauges.2010.Language in India. Volume 10. October
Papers in Kannada
  1. Gulbarga Kannada. 1976. Karnataka Bharathi, Vol.9, No.1-2, pp. 
  2. aaDaLita KannaDa tarabeeti kaaryakramagaLu.1985.(Administrative Kannada training programs in administrative Kannada). Bangalore: Directorate of Kannada and Culture.pp.91-118.
  3. samaajada caalanege bhaashe gaali. 1988. (language in society). Kannada Prabha.
  4. aaDaLita KannaDa kelavu prashNegaLu.1988. (Some questions on administrative Kannada). Kannada Prabha.
  5. KannaDa baaradavaru mattu KannaDa kalike 1990. (A survey of teaching Kannada to those who do not know Kannada) Kannada Prabha, 18.4.1990.
  6. ondu nammuuneya aaDaLita KannaDa 1995. In Samadarshi edited by Shivakumaraswamy et al., Mysore: Pratibha Samsat. pp. 415-421.
  7. makkaLa bhaaShaa arivu 1996. beLLi beDagu, Tumkru, pp.109-113.
  8. eravaru. 1998. In Karnataka buDakaTTugaLu, Vol.1 edited by H.J.LakkappaGowda, Bangalore: Karnataka Janapada and Yakshagana Akademy, pp.625-642.
  9. shaikshanika  karnataka - 1998. 1999.  Kannada adhyayana, Vol.5 No.4. pp. 54-63.
  10. kriyaa samshoodhane. 1999. (Action research). In Research in Adult literacy. Mysore: State Resource Centre. pp.85-92.
  1. bareyuvudu. 2002.In  kriyatmaka KannaDa. Hampi: Kannada University. pp.44-55.
  2. maatrubhaaSheyaagi Kannada boodhane mattu vyaakarana. 2007. In hosatu. Bangalore: Nava Karnataka Publications. pp 47-48.
Audio and video programs for mass media 
  1. KannaDa vidyaarthigaLa bhaashika tappugaLu: A course on error analysis broadcast by the All India Radio, Bangalore.
  2. KannaDa paaThaavaLi - A set of audio cassettes having conversational lessons for practicing spoken Kannada.
  1. KannaDa kannaDi-(Script with S.S. Yadurajan) ten episodes for teaching Kannada script telecast over Doordarshan 9 Television channel during 2000.
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL)

Guided and supervised the preparation of the following:
1.  Frequency Dictionaries

a. Assamese

f. Hindi

k. Manipuri

b. Bengali

g. Indian English

l. Nepali

c. Bodo

h. Kannada

m. Punjabi

d. Dogri

i. Konkani

n. Tamil

e. Gujarati

j. Malayalam

o. Urdu

2. Speech Dataset
  

a. Assamese

h. Kannada

o. Oriya

b. Bengali

i. Konkani

p. Punjabi

c. Bodo

j. Maithili

q. Tamil

d. Dogri

k. Malayalam

r. Telugu

e. Gujarati

l. Manipuri

s. Urdu

f. Hindi

m. Marathi

 

g. Indian English

n. Nepali

 

3.   Natural Language Processing Tools
 

  1. Frequency Counter- Consonant, vowel, first letter in the word & in the sentence, first word.
  2. Frequency Editor
  3. KWIC and KWOC retriever
  4. N-gram  - Character level (uni-gram, bi-gram and tri-gram)
    N-gram  - Word level (uni-gram, bi-gram and tri-gram)
  5. Automatic Transliterator: Transliteration for Indian languages to Roman
  6. Storage Interface for Speech Data

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Membership of learned societies and boards:

  1. Reviewer, Twenty-sixth National prize competition for literature for neo-literates.
  2. Reviewer, Kannada literacy primers prepared for Bijapur district literacy campaign, 1990.
  3. Reviewer, Instructional materials in Kannada, prepared by the Kerala University using Cognate method.
  4. Special invitee, Syllabus committee to prepare the syllabus to teach Kannada to school children under the Gokak formula, Directorate of Text books, Government of Karnataka. 
  5. Member, Expert committee to prepare sample objective type of language tests for entrance examinations of the All India Services of the Union Public Service Commission, Government of India.
  6. Member, Text book committee to prepare text books to teach Kannada to the children of the linguistic minorities in Karnataka under the Gokak formula, Government of Karnataka.
  7. Member, Text book committee to prepare text books in Kannada under the National Adult Education Programme, 1979 - 80. State Resource Centre, Mysore.
  8. Member, Syllabus committee to prepare syllabus to teach Kannada to those who do not know Kannada, Directorate of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka.
  9. Member, Editorial committee to prepare literature for Neo-literates for the year 1993-94, Kannada University, Hampi.
  10. Member, State Resource Group for Tribal Education, District Primary Education Program, Government of Karnataka, 1995 - 99.
  11. One Man Committee, Development of Kannada Software, Department of Information Technology, Government of Karnataka 1999.
  12. Member, Committee to standardize codes for use of Kannada in computers, Department of Information Technology, Government of Karnataka, 2000.
  13. Member, Committee to Review the Structure, Methodology, and Content of Language Teaching Programme for Officer Trainees at Lal Bahadur Shastri Akademy of Administration, Government of India, Mussoorie.
  14. Member, Programme Committee, International Conference on Natural Language Processing–ICON 2002(Mumbai), 2003(Mysore), 2004(Hyderabad), 2005(Kanpur), 2007(Hyderabad) and 2008(Pune).
  15. Member, Project Review and Steering Group for the Consortium mode project ‘Development of Cross-lingual Information Access, of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of India (2006-2008)
  16. Member, Project Review and Steering Group for the Consortium mode projects ‘Development of Major North Eastern Language (Assamese, Bodo, Nepali, Manipuri) in consortia mode’, ‘Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solution (2nd Phase) (Assamese and Bodo)’, ‘Development of Manipuri Language Technology’, of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of India (2008-2011)
  17. Member, Indian Language Technologies and Products Sectional Committee (LITD 20) of the Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi - 110 002(Since 2008).
  18. Member, Sub-Committee on Language Tag of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of India (2009).
  19. Editor - Language in India [ISSN 1930-2940], an Online Monthly Journal www.languageinindia.com.

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