Sponsored Research Projects

Sponsoring Agency	Title of project	Amount of grant (Rupees/USD)	Time period & current status
2010
Ministry of IT	Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA): Phase-II	Rs 2.5 crores/ USD 555555	September 2010 to August 2013. Consortium of 12 institutions with IITB in the lead. Goal: development of tools and resources for CLIR. More info. Ongoing.
Ministry of IT	Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation (ILMT): Phase-II	Rs 1.0 crores/ USD 222222	May 2010 to April 2013. Consortium of 14 institutions. IITB Goal: development of Marathi-Hindi MT system. Ongoing.
Ministry of IT	Indradhanush: Integrated Wordnet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri,Konkani, Oriya,Punjabi & Urdu	Rs 36 Lakhs/ USD 80000	August 2010 to July 2012. Linkage of synsets of mentioned languages with Hindi wordnet, establishmnet of semantic relations, sense dismabiguation and navigation algorithms. Ongoing.
Xerox Corporation	Multilingual Tools and Resources for Indian Languages	Rs 18 Lakhs/ USD 40000	Sept 2010 to August 2013. Hindi English MT in Judicial Domain, Crowdsourcing, Automatic Error Correction and Detection in MT. Ongoing.
AOL, Bangalore	High Accuracy Sentiment Analysis	Rs 7 Lakhs/ USD 16000	August 2010 to July 2011. Role of sense disambiguation on Sentiment Analysis, Sentiment Analysis for Twitter, SA for Indian Languages. Ongoing.
2009
Ministry of Human Resource Development	Tools and Resources for Machine Translation of English and Dravidian Languages	Rs 7.5 Lakhs/ USD 16666	July 2009 to June 2011.Consortium of 15 institutes to create MT systems among Tamil, Telugu, Kannad, Malayalam and English. IITB Part- Linking of Hindi and Dravidian wordnets. Ongoing.
Ministry of IT	Indian Language Corpora	Rs 23 Lakhs/ USD 51111	September 2010 to August 2013.Consortium of 12 institutes to create parallel corpora of Indian Languages. IITB Part- Marathi Hindi coprora. Co-PI with Prof. Malhar Kulkarni. Ongoing.
2008
Central Institute of Indian Languages	Sanskrit Wordnet	Rs 20 Lakhs/ USD 44444	October 2008 to September 2011. Linkage of synsets of Sanskrit with Hindi wordnet, establishmnet of semantic relations, sense dismabiguation and navigation algorithms. Linkage with Amarkosha. Co-PI with Prof. Malhar Kulkarni. Ongoing.
Ministry of IT	Development and Integration of Wordnets of North East Languages (NE-Wordnet)	Rs 33 Lakhs/ USD 73333	February 2009 to December 2011. Consortium of 5 institutes (IITB-lead) doing project on Linkage of synsets of Assames, Bodo, Manipuri and Nepali with Hindi wordnet, establishmnet of semantic relations, sense dismabiguation and navigation algorithms. Linkage with Amarkosha. Ongoing.
IBM Faculty Award	Tools for Indian Language Processing on UIMA Platform	Rs 6 Lakhs/ USD 13333	February 2008 to January 2009. Integrating Indian Language processing resources and tools and semantic search capabilities with the UIMA Platform. Completed.
HP Labs, Bangalore	Large Scale Application Development and Knowledge Dissemination in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining	Rs 8 Lakhs/ USD 18177	January 2008 to December 2009. Work on Ontology, Organization of 3 day summer workshop on Ontology, NLP, IE,IR (. Completed.
2007
Microsoft Distinguished Researh Grant in a focussed area	Linguistic Data Management of Indian Language Resources.	Rs 8 Lakhs/ USD 18177	October 2007 to September 2008. Stoarge and Efficient Navigation of Wordnet, Linkage with Ontology and other Knowledge Networks. Completed.
Ministry of IT	Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation (ILMT)- Phase I	Rs 24.4 Lakhs/ USD 54222	January 2007 to February 2011. Consortium of 10 institutions. IITB part- Marthi-Hindi MT system, Mutliwords, Multilingual WSD. Completed.
Ministry of IT	English to Indian Language Machine Translation (EILMT)- Phase I	Rs 58.7 Lakhs/ USD 130444	January 2007 to June 2010. Consortium of 9 institutions. IITB part- English to Marathi MT system, Word Sense Disambiguation. Completed.
2006
Ministry of IT	Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA)- Phase I	Rs 1.12 Crores/ USD 248888	November 2006 to August 2010. Consortium of 10 isntitutions with IITB as lead. Development of CLIR portal in Tourism Domain for 6 languages- Bangla, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Hindi and English. Completed. See .
Tata Consultancy Services	Laboratory for Intelligent Systems	Rs 2 Crores/ USD 444444	September 2006 to August 2012. Research and Development on NLP, E-commerce, Databases, Networking, Security, Program Derivation, Machine Learning, IR etc. Co-PIs: Profs Bernard Menezes, Varsha Apte, Om Damani, Ashwin Gumaste, G. Nagaraja, Soumen Chakrabarti, Krithi Ramamritham. Ongoing.
2005
Media Lab Asia	Agro Explorer: Meaning Based Search	Rs 1.5 Crore/ USD 333333	April 2005 to March 2007. Multilingual, Meaning based search engine, called AgroExplorer for the agricultural domain. Co-PI with Prof. Krithi Ramamritham. Completed.
pre 2006
Development Gateway Foundation	Information and Communication Technology for Development (Language Technology Part)	Rs 6.5 Crores/ USD 1,444,000 (total DGF project outlay)	July 2002 to March 2007. Indian Language Part of Speech Taggers and Word Sense Disambiguation. Co-PI with Profs Krithi Ramamritham and Anirudha Joshi. Completed.
Ministry of Information Technology	Technology Development in Indian Languages	Rs 1 Crore/ USD 222,000	April 2000 to June 2004. Wordnets developed for Hindi and Marathi and preliminary Machine Translation S/Ws for English, Hindi and Marathi at CFILT . Completed.
Tata Consultancy services	Laboratory for Intelligent Internet Research	Rs 70 Lakhs/ USD 155,000	April, 2000 to March 2004. Semantics Extraction, Question Answering, Summarization and Word Sense Disambiguation. Completed.
United Nations University	Universal Networking Language (UNL)	Rs 10 Lakh/ USD 22000	Nov, 1997 to July, 2000. Completed, with dictionaries and multilingual machine translation software developed for Hindi based on UNL, a language independent semantic representation for text.