Ritesh - Développeur LINUX

Université Joseph Fourier (********)
PhD Student in Informatics (ongoing) 2012-2013
Topic: Unification of expert and empirical approaches to machine translation using UNL, with applications
to recommender system based on tweets in FLI (French and Indian languages)
Supervision: Prof. Christian Boitet (UJF, France)
Co-Supervision: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IITB, India)

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC R&D Labs, ********)
Designation: Senior Staff Scientist 2010-2012
Area: Hybrid Machine Translation (incl. empirical approaches)
Project: English-Indian Languages Machine Translation (EILMT) (Project investigator, Mumbai)
✦ Development and Deployment of a Statistical MT (SMT) engine for three pairs of languages (English
to Hindi, Marathi, Bengali)
✦ Improvement of translation models using hybrid approaches for SMT including factored and
hierarchical models augmented with linguistic knowledge (Part-of-Speech tags, semantic roles etc.)

Designation: Staff Scientist 2005-2010
Area: Statistical Machine Translation

Project: English-Indian Languages Machine Translation (EILMT)
✦ Transfer-based Machine Translation (MT) engine development
Area: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

Project: Setu (Indian Language Browser)
✦ HTML Parsing and concordance extraction component (Linux, Java, Eclipse)

CDAC R&D Labs, Mumbai, India 2004-2008
Plus de 250h en présentiel (CM, TD, TP) étalés sur 5 ans, sous forma de vacations, dans le context d’un laboratoire de R&D faisant aussi de la formation (à Mumbai).
Responsabilité de l’organisation de l’enseignement pour les UE OOP&DS (en 2007) et CO&OS (en
2008), pour environ 45 étudiants (2 groupes de TD).

AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
• 10 publications in conferences for Computational Linguistics (COLING, IJCNLP, LREC, etc.)
• Second best result: Shared Task Competition, Workshop on Reordering for SMT (COLING’12)
• Joint copyright acquired for ‘Marathi’ bilingual corpus resource generation
• 2nd Prize, Best Poster Award, Techvista, Microsoft Research, 2007
• Scored 98 percentile in the National Competence in Software Technology exam, NCST, 2005

PAST INTERNSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (NII: ********)
Designation: PhD Internship student Oct 2015 – Mar 2016
Area: Text mining and Information Extraction

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IITB: ********)
Designation: Research Associate (Student) Jun 2013 – Oct 2013
Area: Indian Language Technologies

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai (CDAC R&D Labs)
Designation: Research Associate 2004 – 2005
Area: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Project: ‘Setu’ (Indian Language Browser)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (TIFR: ********)
Designation: Project Associate (Student) Aug 2003 – Nov 2003
Area: Real Time data acquisition and control project subsystem
✦ Design & development of a front end software (Visual Basic and MS-Access)
✦ Creation of 3-D software models for X-ray detector payload structure (SolidWorks 2000)

ACTIVITIES: PARTICIPATION/CO-ORDINATION
• Attended two summer schools on Logic, Language & Computation, ESSLLI, Tübingen(Germany),
August 2014 and ESSLLI, Barcelona(Spain), August 2015

• Proposal preparation for projects under the Indo-French tie-up CEFIPRA/IFCPAR(in 2013 & 2014)

• Poster presentation, LREC, Language Resources and Evaluation Conf., Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014

• Program Committee Member for The 11th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, India, 2013

• Co-reviewer for the LREV journal, Mumbai, India, April 2013

• Organizing Committee Member, COLING, Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Mumbai, India, December 2012

• Attended several Project Review & Steering Group Meetings (PRSG) as Project Investigator for
Anuvadaksh (Govt. of India project on English-Indian language MT), Delhi, 2007-2012

• Talk on Language modeling for MT - Linguistic Workshop, CDAC, Pune, May 2011

• Talk on MWE Computational Issues and SMT - National Workshop on MWE, Kashmir Univ., November 2011

• Paper presentation, IJCNLP, Intl. Joint Conference on NLP, Hyderabad, India, 2008

• Accommodation and Transport co-ordination, NWAI, National Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence, Mumbai, 2007

• Workshop and Paper presentations, MSPIL, Symposium on Shallow Parsing of IL, IITB Mumbai, 2006

• Demo presentation, Testbed for Support Translation Systems Workshop, Noida, 2006

• Infrastructure co-ordination, The OpenHouse Event (Showcasing R&D), CDAC Mumbai, 2006

• Demo presentation of project ‘Setu’ (Cross-Lingual IR), ELITEX (Showcasing IT Advancements), Delhi, 2005

• Organizing Committee Member, KBCS - International Conference on AI, Hyderabad, 2004