About Diwakar ji
Qualification:
Ph.D. (2016) - Ph.D. from Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University on “A Speech Synthesis System for Sanskrit Prose” under supervision of Prof. Girish Nath Jha & Dr. Kalika Bali.
M.Phil. (awarded January 2010) - M.Phil. in the area of Computational Linguistics from Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (topic: “Issues and Challenges in Computational Processing of consonant Sandhi”) under the supervision of Prof. Girish Nath Jha.
M.A. (2006) - M.A. in Sanskrit from Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi in 2006.
Research and Work Experience:
Self-employed as Chief Scientist, in Sambhavika AI Pvt. Ltd. since August, 2023
Language Engineer at Amazon Alexa, in Bangalore, January 28, 2019 to July 18, 2023
Computational Linguist at ezDI, Ahmedabad, November 2, 2015 to January 25, 2019
Developed Samvacaka: Sanskrit speech synthesis system as a part of PhD work. It is available at <sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/samvacaka/>
Developed converter for Unicode Devanagari text to digital Braille Devanagari text.
Consultant in Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune in Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) Group since July 10, 2013 to October 9, 2015 (2 year and 3 months) and worked there in speech technology projects.
Research intern in Multilingual Systems Research group at Microsoft Research Lab India, Bangalore, February 6 to May 11, 2012 (3 months)
Honorary Senior Linguist in DIT, MHRD sponsored project in Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi, April 5, 2010-January 5, 2011 (9 months)
Research intern in Multilingual Systems Research group at Microsoft Research Lab India, Bangalore, November 16, 2009 to March 5, 2010 (3 months)
Book Publication:
Paninian Morphophonemics: A Computational Approach to Analysis and Interpretation, (co-author- Girish Nath Jha), Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2011, ISBN: 987-3-8465-2953-9
Indian Language Parts of Speech Tagset: Sanskrit, (co-authored with Girish Nath Jha, Madhav Gopal), Language Data Consortium (LDC), February 2011, ISBN: 1-58563-575-8, LDC Catalogue number- LDC2011T04
Edited proceedings of First International Seminar on Science And Technology In Ancient Indian Texts, (ed. jointly with Bal Ram Singh, Girish Nath Jha, Umesh Kumar Singh), DK Printworld, Delhi, 2011, ISBN: 978-81-246-0632-2
Edited proceedings of Twentieth International Congress of Vedanta, (ed. jointly with Girish Nath Jha, Bal Ram Singh, R P Singh), DK Printworld, Delhi, 2012, ISBN: 978-81-246-0639-1
Chapter: Speech Synthesis, in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (ed. Sudhir Kumar Mishra), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-5275-0766-1
Research Papers and Articles:
Online Indexing for Ashtadhyayi in 28th All India Conference of Linguists, on November 2 to 4, 2006 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (abstract published)
Strategies for Metrical Analysis of Sanskrit Text in National Seminar on Perspectives in Linguistics, at University of Kashmir, Srinagar on November 8-9, 2006. (published)
Sanskrit Lexicographic Tradition and its Adaptation for Language Technology in 30th All India Conference of Linguists, on November 26-28, 2008, at Deccan College, Pune. (abstract published)
An Algorithm for Morphophonemic Processing of Sanskrit in 3rd National Seminar in Methods and Models in Computing on December 8-9, 2008, at School of Computer and System Sciences, JNU. (published by Allied)
Inflected Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit in First International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, on October 29-31, 2007, at INRIA, Paris, France. (published by Springer)
Anaphors in Sanskrit in Second Workshop in Anaphora Resolution (WAR-II), 2008, at University of Bergen, Norvey. (published)
Bharat me bhasha praudyogiki: ek sarvekshan (Language Technology in India: a Survey) in Gaveshana, Vol 90, a journal of Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra.
Discourse Anaphora and Resolution Techniques in Sanskrit in 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, Goa, organized by AU-KBC Research Centre on 5-6 November, 2009 (poster presentation, published)
Annotating Sanskrit Adapting IL-POST in 4th Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland on 5-8 November, 2009 (published)
Hindi Dialects Phonological Transfer Rules for Verb Root cala in O-COCOSDA 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal on 24-25 November, 2010. (published in CD proceedings)
Evaluating Tagsets for Sanskrit in 4th International Computational Linguistics Symposium, 10-12 December, 2010 (published by Springer)
Challenges in Developing a TTS for Sanskrit in International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages (ICISIL 2011), Punjabi University, Patiala, March 9-11, 2011. (poster presentation, published by Springer)
A Comparative Phonological Study of the Dialects of Hindi in International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011
Advaita Vedanta ke mat me tarkikta (Tehory and Application of Logic in Advaita Vedanta Theory), in 20th International Congress of Vedanta, organized by Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies & Centre for Philosophy, JNU, New Delhi, and Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, at New Delhi December 28-31, 2011 (proceedings by DK Printworld, Delhi)
Theories of Anaphora Resolution in Traditional Sanskrit Texts, in 15th World Sanskrit Conference, organized at Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, January 5-10, 2012 (abstract published)
Grapheme to Phoneme Converter for Sanskrit Speech Synthesis, in First Workshop on Indian Languages Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE 2012) under LREC, Istanbul, Turkey, May 21, 2012
Text Normalizer for Sanskrit in 5th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, IIT Bombay, January 4-6, 2013 (proceedings by DK Printworld, Delhi)
Syllabification and Stress Assignment in Phonetic Sanskrit Text, in O-COCOSDA 2013, KIIT, Gurgaon, November 25-27, 2013 (CD proceedings by IEEE)
Editing Unicode Devanagari Text through Digital Braille Typewriter in 22nd International Congress of Vedanta, organized by Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies & Centre for Philosophy, JNU, New Delhi, and Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, at New Delhi, December 27-30, 2015
A Treebank for Healthcare Domain in Proceedings of LAW-MWE-CxG-2018 Joint workshop co-located with COLING-2018 Conference, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 25-26, 2018