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Girish Nath Jha

Girish Nath Jha

Girish Nath Jha
Girish Nath Jha
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies
Room No
116
Off. Phone
26738834
Email
girishjha@jnu.ac.in, girishjha@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/girishjha/cv.pdf
Qualifications

M.A : 1991, Linguistics, JNU, New Delhi
M.Phil : 1993, Linguistics (Computational Morphology), JNU, New Delhi
Ph.D : 1998, Linguistics (Machine Translation), JNU, New Delhi
M.A. : 1999, Linguistics (Natural Language Interface),University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Indian languages corpora and standards, Sanskrit and Hindi linguistics, Science & Technology in Sanskrit texts, Computational Lexicography, Machine Translation, e-learning, web based technologies, RDBMS techniques, software design and localization 

Experience
  • Professor of Computational Linguistics, School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies, J.N.U (2014-)
  • Chairman, Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Education, Government of India (2022-2025)
  • Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies, J.N.U (2008 - 2014)
  • Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies, J.N.U (2002 - 2008)
  • Software Development Specialist, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois, USA (2001 - 2002)
  • Software Engineer, Collaborative Technologies (renamed dChain Commerce), Champaign, Illinois, USA (1999 - 2001)
  • Research Assistant, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1998 - 1999)
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (Summer, 1997)
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1996-1998)

 

Administrative Experience as head

  • Chairman, Working Group on Hardware & Software (Keyboard, Fonts, Rendering Engine, Applications, Security) set up by MEITY, GOI (2024 -)
  • Coordinator, Ayurveda Biology Program, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU (2020 - 2022)
  • Dean, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU (2017 - 2019)
  • Director, International Collaboration, JNU (2016 - 2018)
  • Chairperson, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU (2016 - 2017)
  • Chairperson, Security Advisory Committee, JNU 2020 - 2022
  • Chairperson, Space Committee, JNU 2019 - 2022
  • Chairperson, Committee on plagiarism, JNU, 2018

 

International Visiting Faculty

  • Guest Professor, University of Wurzburg, Germany, under DAAD fellowship, November 2016
  • Visiting Professor, University of Florence, Italy, June-July 2016
  • Guest Lectureship, University of Wurzburg, Germany to teach a short course in Computational Linguistics at the Digital Humanities department under a DAAD fellowship during Jan, 2014
  • Guest Lectureship, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, March 2013 to teach Computational Linguistics to the faculty of the University.
  • Mukesh and Priti Chatter Distinguished Professor of History of Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA (2009-2012)
Awards & Honours
  • Received the "Datta Peetha Aasthaana Vidvana" award for Sanskrit linguistics  on 26th May 2017
  • KECSS Felicitation Award - 2016 for the revival and development of Sharada script by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society (KECSS), 26th Feb, 2016
  • DAAD fellowship (Germany) to teach Computational Linguistics at University of Wurzburg, Germany in 2014
  • Nominated to the Editorial Board of Springer for their journal Language Resource and Evaluation (LRE) since Feb 2010. 
  • Evaluated as Exceptional Programmer by the Human Kinetics - USA, 2002 
  • Ranked Excellent Teacher twice by students of Hindi at University of Illinois (USA) : 1997, 1998
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Google consultancy for studying bilingual speech variations (2021-2022)
  2. Google consultancy for studying bilingual interactions in the NCR (2020-2021)
  3. Nuance Communications consultancy for mobile keyboard for Indian languages (Feb - April 2016)
  4. Swiftkey consultancy for mobile phones predictive keyboard for minor Indian languages (Jan - March 2015)
  5. EZ Data Intelligence consultancy for research in smart text processors for medical domain, 2013 -
  6. Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA for Machine Translation for Indian Languages, July - August 2012
  7. Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA for narrow band data for language identification by computers, January - April 2011
  8. Center of Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, for exploring scientific texts in Sanskrit, 2010-12
  9. Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune consultancy for Software Localization, 2007
  10. Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore for their POS tagging project for Indic languages, November 2006-January 2007
  11. Microsoft India on their project on Handwriting Recognition for Devanagari, February - June 2006
  12. Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha (then New Delhi) on their Database system for dialects of Hindi project (2002-2003) 

 

Projects:

  1. Vidyapati – Hindi to Maithili MT, Sponsored by MEITY, 2022-26
  2. Machine Translation Evaluation Platform (MTEP), Innovation Grant from UPE-II, JNU, 2017-19
  3. Shallow Parser Tools (SP Tools) for Indian Languages - Maithili, as Director, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), March , 2012 onwards
  4. Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI)-phase2, as Director and Consortium Leader, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), 2012-16
  5. Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI)-phase1, as Director and Consortium Leader, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), 2009-12
  6. Developing Computational Tools For Sanskrit And Sanskrit-Hindi Machine Translation, as Director, funded under the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), March 28, 2008-12
  7. Online Multilingual Amarakosa : as Director: funded by JNU under UPOE program of UGC, 2005-07
  8. Database system for dialects of Hindi (2002-03): as co-director: Under my supervision , a team of software engineers developed a VB-SQL server software for dialect mapping of Hindi, sponsored and run by MGAHU, New Delhi
  9. ALED (Active Living Everyday) at Human Kinetics, USA: a dynamic content, interactive website for fitness management 2002: project manager and lead programmer
  10. Internationalization project of CollaTech e-solutions using JAVA resource bundles. Project involves making the source code compatible to the multilingual locales and languages, 2001
  11. Database development project at the University of Illinois’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology 1998-99: database programmer
  12. Analyzing schizophrenic speech at Dept. of Psychology, University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997: research assistant
  13. Developing technical terminology for Hindi (attended a series of workshops organized by Scientific and Technical Terminology Commission, Min of HRD, 1994-96) and contributed in developing technical terminology for Hindi
  14. Computer Assisted Sanskrit Teaching Learning Environment (DoE sponsored project at JNU 1991-94): research investigator
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Khanganba, K. Kabi; Jha, Girish Nath, 2020, “Formal Sanskrit Syntax: A Specification for Programming Language”, Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, 72-78 ISBN 978-1-952148-93-4. Suzhou, China: Association for Computational Linguistics.
  2. Srishti Singh and Girish Nath Jha, 2018, “English Multi-Word Expressions (MWE): A Tagset for Health Domain”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2018), pg 1812-1817. Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554795. IEEE. Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-5314-2, Print on Demand(PoD) ISBN: 978-1-5386-5315-9 (Scopus)
  3. Madhav Gopal and Girish Nath Jha, 2017, “Zero Pronouns and Their Resolution in Sanskrit Texts”, procs of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications. ISTA’17, Manipal University, Karnataka 13-16 September, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 683, Springer (Scopus)
  4. Srishti Singh, Girish Nath Jha, 2015, Statistical Tagger for Bhojpuri (employing Support Vector Machine), International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2015, Pages: 1524 - 1529, DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2015.7275829
  5. Girish Nath Jha, 2010, The TDIL program and the Indian Language Corpora Initiative (ILCI), Procs of the 7th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC`10), published by ELRA, isbn 2-9517408-6-7, pp982-985, Valletta, Malta, May 19-21, 2010
  6. Madhav Gopal and Diwakar Mishra , Girish Nath Jha, 2009, Annotating Sanskrit corpus – adapting IL-POSTS, in Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics (revised and selected papers from 4th LTC), pp 371-379, Zygmunt Vetulani (ed), Springer Verlag, Germany, 2009
  7. Girish Nath Jha, Sudhir K Mishra , 2009, Semantic processing in Panini’s karaka system, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf eds) pp 239-252, 2009
  8. Girish Nath Jha, 2009, Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) 5402 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-00154-3 (Gérard P. Huet, Amba P. Kulkarni, Peter Scharf ed. pp 219-238, 2009 

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Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. Vedanta Science and Technology – a multidisciplinary approach (eds Girish Nath Jha, Bal Ram Singh, Sukalyan Sengupta), Procs of the 22nd International Congress of Vedanta (22Vedanta), 27-30 Dec 2015, JNU, DK Printworld, Delhi, 2020
  2. Veda as global heritage: Scientific perspectives (eds, Girish Nath Jha, Sudhir Kumar Arya, Abhijit Dixit, Atul Kr Ojha), Procs of the International Veda Conference on "Veda as Global Heritage: Scientific Perspectives", JNU, 15-18 Dec 2016, Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi, 2019
  3. Perspectives on the Origin of Indian Civilizations (eds Angela Marcantonio, Girish Nath Jha),  DK Printworld, Delhi, 2012
  4. Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation, ( Subhash Chandra, Girish Nath Jha), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
  5. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Girish Nath Jha (ed),  proceedings of the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer Verlag, Germany, 2010
  6. Sanganak-janit vyavaharik Sanskrit dhatu-rupavali, Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi, 2007

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.