Bal Krishna Bal

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Kathmandu University

Post Box - 6250

Dhulikhel, Kavre

Nepal

Email: bal@ku.edu.np , balkrishna7bal@gmail.com

Phone no: (977)(11) 661399 (office)

Home page: http://ku.edu.np/cse/faculty/bal/

Subjects taught so far:

Principles of Programming Languages, Discrete Structures, Fundamentals of Programming with C, Data Structures and Algorithms, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Algorithms and Complexity, Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Speech and Natural Language Processing, Tools and Techniques for Research, Research Methodology.

Research interests and expertise:

1. Software localization

2. Natural Language Processing

3. Language Technologies

4. Social Computing

5. Trust Parameters in E-Government Systems

PhD Supervisors:

Prof. Patrick Saint Dizier

Research Director

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS)

University of Paul Sabatier

IRIT, Toulouse, France

Home page: http://www.irit.fr/~Patrick.Saint-Dizier/

Prof. Pat Hall

Professor of Computer Science
Open University.
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
MKJ7 6AA

Home page: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/pah7/

Current Active Research Involvement Area:

Opinion Mining and Analysis, Argumentation, Discourse Analysis, Opinion Synthesis Construction

Editorials and opinion articles that in general express their views or opinions about some particular event or happening are good sources for discourse analysis as the discourse of arguments in such texts are not necessarily confined just in the sentence level but span to much higher levels i.e., in one paragraph or several paragraphs. These views or opinions in editorials are meant to influence or convince the readers. Hence they may resort to any means of expression in the text, least the text sound convincible. In order to support one’s thesis or statement, the author may produce facts or mere opinions in disguise of facts. It can also involve exaggerations, sarcasm and irony, biases etc. This makes defining the argumentation structure in editorials a challenging task. Fully understanding the intended meanings conveyed by editorials is also an equally challenging task as knowledge of previous discourse and contexts is required. The proposed work aims to build a computational linguistic model that would suggest appropriate techniques and methods for analyzing the editorials and constructing a synthesis.

Paper publications:

2010

Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint-Dizier. “Towards Building Annotated Resources for Analyzing Opinions and Argumentation in News Editorials”, LREC, Malta, Nicoletta Calzolari (Eds.), ELRA, May 2010.

2009

1. Bal Krishna Bal, “Towards Building Advanced Natural Language Applications – An Overview of the Existing Primary Resources and Applications in Nepali”, in Proceedings of the 7’th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, Association for Computational Linguistics, Suntec, Singapore, August, 2009, pp.165-170

2. Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint-Dizier, “Towards and Analysis of Argumentation Structure and the Strength of Arguments in News Editorials”, AISB Symposium on Persuasive Technologies, Edinburgh, April 2009.

3. “Towards an Analysis of Opinions in News Editorials: How Positive was the year?” Bal Krishna Bal.Proceedings of the 8'th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Pages 260-263, Tilburg, January 2009.Copyright 2009 International Conference on Computational Semantics.

4. Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint-Dizier. “Who Speaks for Whom? Towards Analyzing Opinions in News Editorials”, International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (IEEE-SNLP 2009), Bangkok, October 2009.

5. Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint-Dizier. “Have we had Hard Times or Cosy Times? A Discourse Analysis of Opinions Expressed over Socio-political Events in News editorials”, Proceedings of the 7’th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2009), pages 192-198, Hyderabad, India, December 2009. Copyright Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 2009.

PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007

1. Nepali Spell Checker. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 316-18.

2. Nepali Spell Checker 1.1 and the Thesaurus, Research and Development. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 319-23 .

3. A Morphological Analyzer and Stemmer for Nepali. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 324-31.

4. Structure of Nepali Grammar. Bal Krishna Bal, PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 332-96.

5. Architectural and system design of the Nepali Grammar Checker. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 397-400.

6. Sorting utility for Nepali in Linux. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 412-15.

7. Research Report on NepaLinux 1.1. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 419-21.

8. Nepali Open CD. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 427-29.

9. Research Report on creating a Live Bootable CD. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 430-33.

10. SMSing software for Nepali. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 434-35

11. PDA Localization for Nepali. Bal Krishna Bal et. al., PAN Localization, Working Papers 2004-2007, pp. 436-52

2007

1. Guide to Localization of Open Source Software. Bal Krishna Bal et.al. Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.Kathmandu, Nepal. Published by Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan on Behalf of Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal. Copyrights© International Development Research Center, Canada, 2007,

2. A Morphological Analyzer and Stemmer for Nepali. Bal Krishna Bal, Prajol Shrestha. Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal. Paper presented at ADD-2 Workshop on Morpho-syntactic analysis as part of the School of Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and language Resource Development, March 6-14, 2007.

2006

1. The Structure of Nepali Grammar. Paper presented at Satellite Workshop, October 19, 2006. LAICS-NLP Summer School, Bangkok, Thailand. Paper published in the general proceedings of the conference.

2. The Stemmer for Nepali. Bal Krishna Bal. Paper presented at the 27'th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal and 12'th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Nepal, November, 2006.

3. Towards Universal Access to ICTs in Nepal. Bal Krishna Bal, Srishtee Gurung and Pat Hall. Nepalese Linguistics. Journal of the Linguistic Society of Nepal. Volume -22, November 2006. Published by the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Tribhuvan University. Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2002

1. Automation of the Dean’s Office for the foreign students’ specialists’ preparatory faculty, Volgograd State Technical University. Kizim A.V., Siplivaya M.B., Krishna B.B. Progressive Technology in learning and production: Materials for the all Russia conference, Kamiswin city, 24-27 April 2002, Volgograd, 2002,- 258 pages.

2. Application of modern software tools for the automated management of the universities taking the Dean’s Office for the foreign students’ specialists’ preparatory faculty, Volgograd State Technical University as an example. Kizim A.V., Siplivaya M.B., Bal Bal Krishna. Computer and mathematic modeling in natural and technical sciences: Materials of the 4’th all Russia internet conference (April-May 2002) / Chief Editor of the series, Prof. Arzamshov A.A., Tambob: Tambob State University, 2002.

For detailed information, please have a look at my Curriculum Vitae/Resume.