ABOUT ME:

  • Niraj Shrestha
  • MS by Research (Computer Engineering), Kathmandu University (2008)
    • Nepali Word Sense Disambiguation using Lesk algorithm (MS by Research Thesis)
  • B.E.(Computer Science & Engineering), Kathmandu University (2001)

 

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WORKING EXPERIENCES:

  • Teaching
    • From August 2003 - till now, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Kavre.
    • From August 2001 - July 2003, BIM Program, Prime College, Khushibun, Naya Bazar, Kathmandu.
    • From August 2002 - July 2003, +2 Program, Prime College, Khushibun, Naya Bazar, Kathmandu.

PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. “Resources for Nepali Word Sense Disambiguation”, IEEE International conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE’08), Beijing, China, 2008
  2. Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. “Dictionary containing Example based Nepali WSD”, ICON 2008, Pune, India, 2008.
  3. Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. Word Sense Disambiguation; a Brief Survey with Application to Nepali, 29th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2008.

 

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS:

Ø  Summer School in Language Processing: participated in summer school in language processing held in National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan from 1st June 2006 to 15 August 2006. The training contained five graduate courses which are Phonetics and Phonology, Script Processing, Syntax and Morphology, Computer Speech Processing and Computational Linguistics. (URL: http://www.panl10n.net/english/activity_16.htm )

Ø  Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD1 school): participated in ADD1 school from 21st August 2006 to 1st September  2006 held at SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ø  Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD2 school): participated in ADD2 school from 6th March 2007 to 14th March 2007 held at SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ø  TCS NLP Winter School 2008: participated in TCL NLP Winter School 2008, held at IIIT, Hyderabad, India from 24th December 2007 to 7th January 2008. During the school, Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation (English-Hindi-English) toy system was developed.

 


Contact Me:

Niraj Shrestha

 

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Kathmandu University

Dhulikhel, Kavre

P.O. Box: 6250

Tel: 011-661399,661511 (University)

mail: niraj@ku.edu.np