Curriculum Vitae
Mobile: 0501865536
E-mail:shahid.bhat3@gmail.com
DR. SHAHID MUSHTAQ
I presently work as Language Instructor in the Department of Languages & Translation,
Faculty of Education & Arts, NBU Arar, KSA
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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Ph.D. Linguistics; Research Topic- Creating Dependency Treebank for
Kashmiri, Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.
2014
M.A. Linguistics from Kashmir University, Hazratbal Srinagar, Jammu &
Kashmir. 2007. Courses Studied: Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics,
Morphology, Syntax, Language Teaching and Learning, English Language
Teaching (ELT), Second Language Research (SLR), Translation Studies,
Lexicography,
Sociolinguistics,
Bilingualism,
Psycholinguistics,
Neurolinguistics, Language in Mind, etc.
M.A. English Language & Literature from IGNOU, New Delhi. 2011.
Courses Studied: English Linguistics- Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics,
Morphology, Syntax, Multilingualism, Stylistics, etc. Literary Criticism,
British Poetry, Drama, Novel, American Literature, and Indian English
Literature
Bachelors of Education (B.Ed) from Kashmir University, Hazratbal
Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. 2008-2009. Specialization in Teaching of
English (TOE) and Teaching of Bio-Science (TOB)
Bachelors of Science (B.Sc) with General English, Zoology, Botany &
Chemistry from Amar Singh College, Srinagar, Kashmir University. 20012003
Diploma in Computer Applications (DCA), Masterpro Poly-technique
College (2000)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
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I would like to design and teach courses in Theoretical Linguistics- Syntax,
Morphology and Semantics.
Applied Linguistics: Language Pedagogy and Learning/Acquisition,
Clinical Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics and Translation Studies.
Allied Interdisciplinary Fields- Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Corpus
Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Stylistics, Sociolinguistics, and
Cognitive Linguistics.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Research Areas: Syntax, Morphology, Language, English Language
Teaching and Learning, Computational Linguistics (CL), Corpus
Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Clinical Linguistics
Research Languages: English, Kashmiri, Arabic, German, Urdu-Hindi,
Punjabi, Hebrew and Sanskrit.
POSITIONS HELD:
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Guest Lecturer, Samvaad Institute of Speech and Hearing, Bangalore for
three years (2012-2014).
Lecturer-cum-Resource Person, Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian
Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages (2011-2014).
Research Assistant Junior (JRA), in Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian
Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages (2010-2011).
Junior Resource Person (JRP), in Linguistic Data Consortium For Indian
Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages (2010)
FIELD WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCES:
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Worked on Developing Dependency Treebank for Kashmiri.
Worked on Corpus Annotation, both Text and Speech.
Worked on Developing 45 Hours of Speech Corpus for Kashmiri.
Worked on Developing 1 million words of text corpora, both Monolingual
and Comparable Corpus, for Kashmiri.
Data Collection-1: 15 Day Fieldwork for Text Data Collection (2012).
Data Collection-2: 2 Month Fieldwork for Speech Data Collection (2011).
TEACHING EXPERIENCES:
1. Taught a Course on Clinical Linguistics, 2nd Semester, Masters in
Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (MASLP) at Samvaad Institute
of Speech & Hearing, Bangalore. 2013 Session.
2. Taught a Course on Clinical Linguistics, 2nd Semester, Masters in
Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (MASLP) at Samvaad Institute
of Speech & Hearing, Bangalore. 2013 Session.
3. Taught Clinical Linguistics, 2nd Semester, Masters in Audiology, Speech &
Language Pathology (MASLP) at Samvaad Institute of Speech & Hearing,
Bangalore. 2012 Session
4. Taught Language and Linguistics and Computational Linguistics in NLP
Orientation Cum Training Programme, Jammu University, Jammu, 2013
5. Taught Syntax, Computational Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics in NLP
Orientation Cum Training Programme, Govt. Post-graduate College,
Darjeeling, 2012
6. Taught General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics & Corpus
Linguistics in NLP Orientation Cum Training Programme, Lucknow
University, 2012
7. Taught General Linguistics, Morphology, Computational Linguistics &
Corpus Linguistics in NLP Orientation Cum Training Programme at
School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, 2012
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8. Taught General Linguistics, NLP/Computational Linguistics & Corpus
Linguistics in NLP Orientation cum Training Programme, University of
Goa. 2012
9. Taught General Linguistics, General Linguistics, NLP/Computational
Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics in Awareness Programme on Gujarati
Language Processing (GLP), S.P. University, Gujarat (2010).
10. Taught Computational Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics in Awareness
Programme on Urdu Language Processing (ULP), at Department of
Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (2009).
11. Taught English at Central Public Mission High School, Tral Pulwama,
Jammu & Kashmir (2009).
12. Taught Computer Science at Future Vision Model School, Tral Pulwama,
Jammu & Kashmir (2009).
13. Taught Computer Fundamentals at Aims Society of Computer Science,
Tral Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir (2009).
14. Taught English & Science at Shaheen Public High School, Srinagar in
(2004).
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES:
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Worked on developing Urdu E-Learning Programme for NCPUL Delhi
and CIIL Mysore.
Have set Question Paper for PhD Entrance Test in Linguistics for
Lucknow University, 2013
Have set Question Papers and have done Evaluation in Clinical Linguistics
for Bangalore University, 2013
Have set Question Papers, for Masters Level in Computational Linguistics
for Nagpur University, 2013
Have set Question Papers, for Masters Level (distance mode) in
Psycholinguistics, for Annamalai University, 2013
Localised/Translated some applications of Open Office; Libber Office
(word processor, vector graphic editor, tux paint, etc) for C-DAC Pune.
Translated an English short story “Another Sunday” into Kashmiri.
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATED IN:
1. Participated in Workshop on Developing Shallow Parsing Tools (SPTIL)
for Indian Languages, Organised by CALTS Hyderabad Central
University at LDCIL, CIIL Mysore, 28-30 Jan. 2013
2. Participated in Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing of
Indian Languages (MTPIL), COLING 2012, IIT Mumbai, Mumbai
3. Participated in National Workshop on Indian Languages Corpora
Initiative & the BIS Annotation Scheme, LTRC Lab. IIIT Hyderabad,
21-23 July, 2012
4. Participated in Workshop on Complex Predicates (17th Dec), ICON 2011
at AUKBC Research Lab, Chennai
5. Participated in Workshop on Hindi/Tamil Computing (16th Dec), ICON
2011 at AUKBC Research Lab, Chennai,
6. Participated in Third IIIT Hyderabad Advanced Summer School on
Natural Language Processing (IASNLP 2011) & Worked on a projectCreating Dependency Treebank for Kashmiri
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CONFERENCES PARTICIPATED IN:
1. Participated in 1st International & 35th National Conference of Linguistic
Society of India (ICOLSI), Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL),
Mysore, 2013
2. Participated in International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING), IIT Mumbai, 2012
3. Participated in National Seminar on Speech Synthesis and Its Applications,
at Linguistic Department, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 11-13 July 2012
4. Participated in International Conference on Natural language Processing
(ICON), AUKBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai,
2011
5. Participated in National Seminar on Linguistic Development & Tribal
Languages in Jammu & Kashmir, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 2011
6. Participated in BIS meeting for Standardization of POS Tag-sets for
Indian Languages, at LTRC Lab, IIIT Hyderabad, 2011
7. Participated in International Conference on Language Development and
Computing Method (ICLDCM), Karunya Institute of Technology &
Sciences, Coimbatore, 2010
8. Participated in International Conference on Natural language Processing
(ICON), IIT Kharagpur, 2010
9. Participated in International Conference on Natural language Processing
(ICON), University of Hyderabad, 2009
10. Participated Knowledge Sharing Events on the Development of
Morphological Analyzers & Generators, Creation of Multilingual Speech
Resources, Making of Electronic Dictionary and POS Tagging for Indian
languages, CIIL, Mysore, 2009
11. Participated in International Conference on Perspectives in Linguistics,
University of Kashmir, 2006
PAPERS PRESENTED:
1. Nov.2013. Manual Chunking and Parsing Kashmiri Text Corpus in
International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), Central
Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.
2. Dec.2012. Introducing Kashmiri Dependency Treebank in Workshop
on Machine Translation and Parsing of Indian Languages (MTPIL),
COLING 2012, IIT Mumbai, Mumbai
3. Oct. 2012. Empirical Method of Language Documentation: A Case
Study of Compiling Kashmiri Corpus, in National Seminar on
Endangered and Lesser Known Languages: Issues and Responses, 2012,
Lukhnow University, Lukhnow
4. July 2012. Acoustic Analysis of Kashmiri Central Vowels, in National
Seminar on Speech Synthesis and Its Applications, at University of
Kerala, Trivandrum.
5. Feb. 17. Developing Small Scale Treebank for Kashmiri in SCONLI06, at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
6. Dec. 2011. Building Large Scale POS Annotated Corpus for Hindi &
Urdu (co-authored) in National Seminar on Parts-of-Speech Annotation
for Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore
7. Dec. 2011. Parts of Speech Tagging in Kannada (co-authored) in Parts
of Speech Annotation for Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives at
LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore
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8. Oct. 2011. Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu, in AICL,
Department of English, Punjabi University, Chandigarh
9. 2010. Developing Fine Grained Hierarchical POS Tagset for
Kashmiri (co-authored) selected in International Conference on
Language Development and Computing Methods, Karunya Institute of
Technology & Sciences, Coimbatore.
10. March 2010. Developing Morphological Analyzer for Urdu, Using
Apertium; Some Issues, in Knowledge Sharing Events of on
Development of Morphological Analyzers & Generators for Indian
Languages, at CIIL, Mysore.
11. March 2010. Case Syncretism and Disambiguating Algorithms for
Urdu-Hindi POS Tagging (co-authored) in The Knowledge Sharing
Event on POS Tagging, at CIIL, Mysore.
PAPERS PUBLISHED:
1. Is Kashmiri Passive Really a Passive? (Co-authored), in the Edited
Volume ‘Lexicon-syntax Interface: Views from South Asian Languages,
John Benjamin’s, Amsterdam. 2013
2. Introducing Kashmiri Dependency Treebank in the Proceedings of
Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing of Indian Languages
(MTPIL), COLING 2012
3. Building Morphological Analyzer for Nepali (co-authored), Journal of
Modern Languages, Oct.2012
4. Building Large Scale POS Annotated Corpus for Hindi & Urdu (coauthored), in the Proceedings of Workshop on Indian Language & Data:
Resources & Evaluation (WILDRE), LREC 2012 (Istanbul, Turkey).
5. Developing Nepali morphological Analyser: A Case of Implementing
Nepali Inflectional Morphology in Apertium (co-authored), in Journal
of Advanced Linguistic Studies (JALS), 2011
6. Developing Fine-grained Hierarchical POS Tagset for Kashmiri, in
the Proceedings of International Conference on Language Development
& Computing Methods ICLDCM, Coimbatore, 2010.
7. Case Syncretism and Disambiguating Algorithms for Urdu-Hindi
POS Tagging (co-authored) in Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics
Vol. 4. 2011. Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir: Srinagar.
PAPERS ACCEPTED:
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CorpEvalS: Evaluating Urdu & Hindi POS Annotation (co-authored) in
ILENTEC 2012, July 2012 at Las Vegas.
Case Syncretism in Urdu-Hindi: A Challenge for NLP (co-authored) in
3rd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2011),
Valencia, Spain on 7-9 April, 2011.
ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED:
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Manual Chunking and Parsing of Kashmiri Text Corpus, in
International Conference, ICOLSI 2013, Central Institute of Indian
Languages, Mysore
Verbs in Kashmiri: A Semantico-Syntactic Classification, (coauthored), in International Conference, ICOLSI 2013, Central Institute of
Indian Languages, Mysore
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Chunking Text Corpus of Kashmiri, in National Seminar on
Endangered and Lesser Known Languages: Issues and Responses, 2012,
Lukhnow University, Lukhnow
Modelling Theory of Mind: A Myth in NLP, in UGC- national seminar
on language and cognitive processes, 23 & 24 Jan , Organized by Centre
of Advanced Study in Linguistics , Annamalai University, 2011
Stuttering: A Case of Disfluency, UGC- national seminar on language
and cognitive processes, 23 & 24 Jan Organized by Centre of Advanced
Study in Linguistics , Annamalai University, 2011
Harnessing Morpho-Syntax of the Major Languages of J & K State,
Seminar on Linguistics and Language Development in Jammu and
Kashmir with special reference to Tribal Languages, 14th-16th
November, 2011, University of Kashmir
Creating Treebanks for Indian Languages, in Wiki Conference,
Mombay, India 2011
Kannada Morphological Analyzer: Implementation and Issues, (coauthored), in Social Science Congress, 2011
Building Morphological Analyzer for Nepali, (co-authored), in the 32nd
Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu,
November 26-27, 2011
Case Syncretism in Urdu-Hindi: A Challenge for NLP, (co-authored),
published in the proceedings of ICOSOL 2009.
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:
 Proceedings of National Seminar on Parts-of-Speech Annotation for
Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives (POSANIL) 2011. MS.
 Building Morphological Analyzer for Kashmiri. 2011. Ms.
 Ten English Poems and one Short Story. MS.
CURRENT ACADEMIC ENDEAVOURS:
 Writing a Monograph on Computing Morphology of Indian Languages.
 Writing a Book on Kashmiri Treebank: An Alternative Grammar
 Writing a Book on The Fundamentals of Language and Linguistics
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Organizational Effort
1. Member. Organising and Volunteering at 1st International & 35th
National Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), Central
Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, 2013
2. Co-ordinated. Fifteen Day Workshop on Speech Corpus Annotation &
Text Corpus Sanitation for Kashmiri, Department of Linguistics,
University of Kashmir. 2013
3. Co-ordinated. One Week Workshop on Corpus Sanitation, at LDCIL,
CIIL Mysore. 2012
4. Co-ordinated. Fifteen Day Workshop on Creating Large Scale POS
Annotated Data for Kashmiri, at Department of Linguistics, University of
Kashmir. 2012
5. Co-ordinated. Ten Day NLP Orientation cum Training Programme,
Department of Linguistics, Lukhnow University. 2012
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6. Organised. Three Day National Seminar on Parts-of-Speech Annotation
in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives, at LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore.
2011
7. Co-ordinated. Ten Days NLP Orientation cum Training Programme at
Kashmir University, Kashmir. 2011
8. Co-ordinated. Three Day Lecture Cum Workshop on Urdu, Hindi &
Maithili POS Tagging & Morph-Analysis at LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore (19th 21st September 2011).
9. Member. Co-ordinating and Volunteering at South Asian Language
Analysis (SALA 29). CIIL, Mysore, India. 2011
10. Member. Co-ordinating and Volunteering at Knowledge Sharing Events
on the Development of Morphological Analyzers & Generators, Creation
of Multilingual Speech Resources, Making of Electronic Dictionary and
POS Tagging for Indian languages, LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore. 2009
MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES:
 Core Committee Member of SCONLI 2011-2012
 Life Time Member of Linguistic Society of India (LSI)
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:
 Well versed in Windows & MS. Office
 Working Knowledge of Linux & Open Office
 Basic Knowledge of Programming
 Well versed in various NLP Tools (Annotation tools).
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:
HOBBIES:
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Kashmiri, English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Punjabi.
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Reading: Fiction, Scientific Literature and Poetry
Writing: Research Papers, Articles, Short Stories & Poetry
Watching Documentaries and Current Affairs
Social Networking and Internet Surfing
Nature Photography
DATE OF BIRTH: 15th Oct. 1982.
PLACE: Arar, KSA
DATE: 31-01-2016
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