Niladri Sekhar Dash

About

Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash is Professor & Head, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Institute of National Importance, Govt. of India). For the last 27 years, he is working in Corpus Linguistics, Language Technology, Language Documentation & Digitization, Lexicography, Computer Assisted Language Teaching, Digital Humanities, & Translation. He has published 17 books and 261 research papers in peer-reviewed international & national journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings. He is a Visiting Fellow of the British Academy, UK (2018), Visting Research Fellow of PCLS, CeLM, University of Reading, UK (2018-2021), and Visiting Fellow of the Language & Brain Lab, University of Oxford, UK (2019). As an invited speaker, he has delivered talks at more than 40 Universities and institutes in India and abroad. He acts as a Consultant for several multinational organizations working on corpora, Language Technology, and Lexicography. He is the PI 18 projects funded by various agencies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies – a blind peer-reviewed international journal of linguistics. and Editorial Board Member of several international journals. https://sites.google.com/site/nsdashisi/home/

Employment

• Indian Statistical Institute Professor & Head
  2010 - Present

Education

• University of Calcutta PhD
  1997 - 2001

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (49)

• BANGLA AND ODIA MACHINE TRANSLATION USING EM ALGORITHM: EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION
  Applied Soft Computing Techniques Theoretical Principles and Practical Applications 2025
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• Developing a Dictionary for Kharia Sabar: An Indigenous and Endangered Tribal Speech Community of Eastern India
  Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80752-7_14
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• Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages
  Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80752-7
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• LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AGENT PERSONALITY AND RESPONSE APPROPRIATENESS: EVALUATION BY HUMAN LINGUISTIC EXPERTS, LLM-AS-JUDGE, AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODEL
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.23875
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• Preface
  Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages 2025
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• Preface: Documentation of Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages: A Saga of Endless Struggle and Marginal Success
  Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80752-7_1
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• SOME VIEWS ON ETHICAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES RELATING TO LINGUISTIC DATA COLLECTION FROM ENDANGERED INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
  Dialectologia 2025 DOI: 10.1344/Dialectologia.35.3
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• Aphasia in South Asian languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks for investigating cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia for South Asian languages
  Aphasiology 2025 DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2025.2548249
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• CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
  Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities 2024 DOI: 10.4324/9781003195269-13
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• Universal and Language-Specific Connected Speech Characteristics of Bilingual Speakers With Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights From Case Studies of Structurally Distinct Languages
  Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 2024 DOI: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00254
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