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Dr. Anil Kumar Singh
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
aksingh.cse@iitbhu.ac.in
+91-542-716-5339 (O)
Area of Interest: 
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval

Official Address: Department of Computer Sc. &  Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi-221005, UP
Phone (O): +91-542-716-5339

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., IIIT Hyderabad
B.E., NIT Jaipur

Past Experience

  • Assistant Professor (August, 2015 to April, 2017), IIT (BHU), Varanasi
  • Visiting Faculty (May, 2014 to August, 2015), IIT (BHU), Varanasi
  • Post-doctoral Researcher, TLP, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France.
    (May, 2012 to April, 2013)
  • Senior Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engg., KIIT
    University, Bhubaneswar, India. (May, 2011 to April, 2012)
  • Research Scientist, LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. (July, 2009 to May, 2011)
  • Consultant, OutBox Edutainment Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. (September, 2008 to January, 2011)
  • Research Assistant, LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad. (July, 2003 to July, 2009)
  • Prior to joining PhD, worked as software developer, freelance
    writer, editor, translator, part-time teacher/lecturer etc., mostly in New Delhi.

 

  1. Artificial Intelligence (CS 701), Monsoon, 2011-12, School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
  2. Computer Systems and Programming, Monsoon, 2011-12, School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
  3. Computer Environment and Scripting & IT Workshop 1A (CS1010 & CS3001), Monsoon, 2009, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  4. Language Typology and Universals (HS5092), Monsoon, 2007-08 (A few lectures), IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  5. Computer and Scripting I (CS5002), Monsoon, 2006-07 (A few lectures), IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  6. Computational Linguistics I (HS5090), Monsoon, 2007-08, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  7. Computer and Scripting II (CS5003), Spring, 2005-06, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  • Neural Morphological Disambiguation Using Surface and Contextual Morphological Awareness. Akhilesh Sudhakar and Anil Kumar Singh. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2017). Kolkata, India. December, 2017.
  • Reference Scope Identification for Citances Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Saurav Jha, Aanchal Chaurasia, Akhilesh Sudhakar and Anil Kumar Singh. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2017). Kolkata, India. December, 2017.
  • Overview of the IJCNLP-2017 Shared Task on Review Opinion Diversification (RevOpiD-2017). Anil Kumar Singh, Avijit Thawani, Mayank Panchal, Anubhav Gupta and Julian McAuley. Proceedings of the IJCNLP-2017 Shared Tasks. Taipei, Taiwan. December, 2017.
  • Evaluating Opinion Summarization in Ranking. Anil Kumar Singh, Avijit Thawani, Anubhav Gupta and Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya. Proceedings of the 13th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS-2017). Jeju island, Korea. November, 2017.
  • Word Transduction for Addressing the OOV Problem in Machine Translation for Similar Resource-Scarce Languages. Shashikant Sharma and Anil Kumar Singh. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing. Umeå, Sweden. September, 2017.
  • Experiments on Morphological Reinflection: CoNLL-2017 Shared Task. Akhilesh Sudhakar and Anil Kumar Singh. Proceedings of the Twenty First Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - Shared Task. Vancouver, Canada. August, 2017.
  • Intelligent Computing Methods in Language Processing by Brain. Ranjan A., Mishra R.B., Singh A.K. In: Singh D., Raman B., Luhach A., Lingras P. (eds) Advanced Informatics for Computing Research. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol 712. Springer, Singapore. 2017.
  • IIT (BHU): System Description for LSDSem'17 Shared Task. Pranav Goel and Anil Kumar Singh. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics at the EACL Conference. Valencia, Spain. April, 2017.
  • IIT (BHU) Submission on the CoNLL-2016 Shared Task: Shallow Discourse Parsing using Semantic Lexicons. Manpreet Kaur, Nishu Kumari, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajeev Sangal. Proceedings of the Twentieth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - Shared Task. Berlin, Germany. August, 2016.
  • A Workbench for Linguistic Annotation and Documentation of Data. Anil Kumar Singh and Manish Kumar Singh. Tutorial at the 4th Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference (ELKL-4). Agra, India. February, 2016.
  • Building a Machine Translation System for Less Resourced Languages. Anil Kumar Singh. Tutorial at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2015). Trivandrum, India. December, 2015.
  • Shallow Discourse Parsing with Syntactic and (a Few) Semantic Features. Shubham Mukherjee, Abhishek Tiwari, Mohit Gupta and Anil Kumar Singh, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - Shared Task. Beijing, China. July, 2015. Pages 61-65.
  • Responding to Retrieval: A Proposal to Use Retrieval Information for Better Presentation of Website Content. C. Ravindranath Chowdary, Anil Kumar Singh and Anil Nelakanti. Proceeding of PEWET: PErvasive WEb Technologies, trends and challenges. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. June, 2015.
  • Machine Translation Quality Estimation: Lessons from a Typical NLP Task. Anil Kumar Singh. Tutorial at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2014). Goa, India. December, 2014.
  • Centrality based Document Ranking. Anil Kumar Singh and C. Ravindranath Chowdary. In Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2014, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-21, 2014.
  • A Language Identification Method Applied to Twitter Data. Anil Kumar Singh and Pratya Goyal. In Proceedings of the Twitter Language Identification Workshop at the SEPLN Conference. Girona, Spain. September, 2014.
  • A Set of Annotation Interfaces for Alignment of Parallel Corpora. Anil Kumar Singh. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Number 102, 2014, pp. 57–68. doi: 10.2478/pralin-2014-0014.
  • SSF: A Common Representation Scheme for Language Analysis for Language Technology Infrastructure Development. Akshar Bharati, Rajeev Sangal, Dipti Sharma and Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT, pp66–76. Dublin, Ireland. August, 2014.
  • LIMSI Submission for the WMT'13 Quality Estimation Task: an Experiment with n-gram Posteriors. G. Wisniewski, A. K. Singh and F. Yvon. In Proceeding of the ACL 2013 Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT'13). Sophia, Bulgaria. August, 2013. [PDF]
  • Quality Estimation for Machine Translation: Some Lessons Learned. G. Wisniewski, A. K. Singh and F. Yvon. Machine Translation (Special Issue on Quality Estimation), Vol. 27, issue 3-4, pages 213-238. 2013. [Read]
  • Design and Analysis of a Large Corpus of Post-Edited Translations: Quality Estimation, Failure Analysis and the Variability of Post-Edition. G. Wisniewski, A. K. Singh, Natalia Segal and F. Yvon. In Proceeding of the Machine Translation Summit XIV. Nice, France. September, 2013. [PDF]
  • A Concise Query Language with Search and Transform Operations for Corpora with Multiple Levels of Annotation. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Instanbul. 2012. [PDF]
  • A GUI to Detect and Correct Errors in Hindi Dependency Treebank. Rahul Agarwal, Bharat Ram Ambati and Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Instanbul. 2012. [PDF]
  • Part-of-Speech Annotation with Sanchay. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the National Seminar On POS Annotation for Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives. Mysore, India. 2011.
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Automatically Building Bilingual Lexicon from Web Corpus. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh and S. V. Gangashetty. In Proceedings of the Seminar on Linguistic and Language Development In Jammu and Kashmir with Special Reference to Tribal Languages of the State. Srinagar, Kashmir. 2011.
  • Games for Academic Vocabulary Learning Through a Virtual Environment. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh and S. V. Gangashetty. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing. Penang, Malaysia. 2011.
  • First-of-Their-Kind "Total" Telugu Word Games and a User-Friendly Solution for Telugu Text Input in Digital Devices. Hareesh Viriyala and Anil Kumar Singh. International Telugu Internet Conference. Silicon Valley, California, US. 2011.
  • Transliteration as Alignment vs. Transliteration as Generation for the Purpose of Crosslingual Information Retrieval. Anil Kumar Singh, Sethuramalingam Subramaniam and Taraka Rama. Traitement Automatique des Langues, Special Issue on Multilingualism and NLP. Vol. 51, Number 2. 2010. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • An Integrated Digital Tool for Accessing Language Resources. Anil Kumar Singh and Bharat Ambati. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Malta. 2010. [Bibtex]
  • Frame Extraction and Verb Classification from Treebank for Hindi and Telugu. Sudheer Kolachina, Prasanth Kolachina, Anil Kumar Singh, Viswanath Naidu and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Malta. 2010. [Bibtex]
  • Improving the Performance of the Link Parser. Y. Viswanatha Naidu, Anil Kumar Singh, Dipti Misra Sharma and Akshar Bharati. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing. Singapore. 2009. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • From Bag of Languages to Family Trees From Noisy Corpus. Taraka Rama and Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Borovets, Bulgaria. 2009. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Experiments in CLIR Using Fuzzy String Search Based on Surface Similarity. Sethuramalingam S, Anil Kumar Singh and Pradeep Dasigi. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual SIGIR Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. 2009. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Modeling Letter to Phoneme Conversion as a Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Problem with Minimum Error Rate Training. Taraka Rama, Anil Kumar Singh and Sudheer Kolachina. In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop. Boulder, Colorado. 2009. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Review of 'Translation Equivalence, An Essay in Theoretical Linguistics', M. K. C. Uwajeh, Lincom GmbH. Anil Kumar Singh. Linguist List. 2008. [Bibtex]
  • A Graph Based Method for Building Multilingual Weakly Supervised Dependency Parsers. Jagadeesh Gorla, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajeev Sangal, Karthik Gali, Samar Husain and Sriram Venkatapathy. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (GoTAL). Gothenburg, Sweden. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Estimating the Cost of Adapting the Resources of One Language for Another. Anil Kumar Singh, Kiran Pala and Harshit Surana. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marrakech, Morocco. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Open Source Software and Object Oriented Technology. Anil Kumar Singh. Tutorial at the Conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSSCONF). Chennai, India. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • An Outline of a Multilingual Natural Language Text and Speech Interface for Computing Devices in the South Asian Context. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the IUI Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (IUI4DR). Canary Islands, Spain. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages. Anil Kumar Singh (Ed.). Hyderabad, India. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages. Rajeev Sangal, Dipti Misra Sharma and Anil Kumar Singh (Ed.). Hyderabad, India. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Natural Language Processing for Less Privileged Languages: Where do we come from? Where are we going? Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages. Hyderabad, India. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages: Taking Stock. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP-08 Workshop on Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages. Hyderabad, India. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • A Mechanism to Provide Language-Encoding Support and an NLP Friendly Editor. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Hyderabad, India. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • A More Discerning and Adaptable Multilingual Transliteration Mechanism for Indian Languages. Harshit Surana and Anil Kumar Singh. In proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Hyderabad, India. 2008. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Multilingual Akshar Based Transducer for South and South East Asian Languages which Use Indic Scripts. Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural Language Processing. Pattaya, Thailand. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Grammar and Multilingualism. Kiran Pala and Anil Kumar Singh. At
    the National Seminar on the Emerging Linguistic Scene in North East India. Shillong, India. 2007.
  • Identification of Languages and Encodings in a Multilingual Document. Anil Kumar Singh and Jagadeesh Gorla. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACL SIGWAC Workshop on Web As Corpus. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • More Accurate Fuzzy Text Search for Languages Using Abugida Scripts. Anil Kumar Singh, Harshit Surana and Karthik Gali. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Improving Web Retrieval for Non-English Queries. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Disambiguating Tense, Aspect and Modality Markers for Correcting Machine Translation Errors. Anil Kumar Singh, Samar Husain, Harshit Surana, Jagadeesh Gorla, Chinnappa Guggilla and Dipti Misra Sharma. In Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Borovets, Bulgaria. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Exploring Translation Similarities for Building a Better Sentence Aligner. Anil Kumar Singh and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pune, India. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Extraction and Translation of Multi-Word Number Expressions. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pune, India. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • A Java Implementation of an Extended Word Alignment Algorithm Based on the IBM Models. Chinnappa Guggilla and Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceedings of the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pune, India. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Using a Single Framework for Computational Modeling of Linguistic Similarity for Solving Many NLP Problems. Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana. In Proceedings of Eurolan Doctoral Consortium. Iasi, Romania. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Can Corpus Based Measures be Used for Comparative Study of Languages? Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana. In Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Phonology and Morphology. Prague, Czech Republic. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Study of Cognates among South Asian Languages for the Purpose of Building Lexical Resources. Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana. Journal of Language Technology. Dept. of IT, Govt. of India. 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Using a Model of Scripts for Shallow Morphological Analysis Given an Unannotated Corpus. Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana. ADD-2 Workshop on Morpho-Syntactic Analysis. Bangkok, Thailand. March, 2007. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • A Framework for Computational Processing of Spelling Variation. Anil Kumar Singh. Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV-35). Columbus, Ohio. November, 2006. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • A Computational Phonetic Model for Indian Language Scripts. Anil Kumar Singh. In proceedings of Constraints on Spelling Changes: Fifth International Workshop on Writing Systems. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October, 2006. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Study of Some Distance Measures for Language and Encoding Identification. Anil Kumar Singh. In Proceeding of ACL 2006 Workshop on Linguistic Distances. Sydney, Australia. July 2006. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Building An Integrated Digital Tool for Language Resources. Anil Kumar Singh. Issue statement for the Digital Tools Summit 2006. East Lansing, Michigan. June 2006. [PDF] [Bibtex]
  • Review of 'Language of Time', (Ed.) Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, and Robert Gaizauskas, Oxford University Press. Anil Kumar Singh. Linguist List. 2005. [Bibtex]
  • Comparison, Selection and Use of Sentence Alignment Algorithms for New Language Pairs. Anil Kumar Singh and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of ACL 2005 Workshop on Parallel Text. Ann Arbor, Michigan. June 2005. [iPaper] [Bibtex]