Visibility and Services

Editorship

• Associate Editor, ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011.
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Christiane Fellbaum and Piek Vossen, Proceedings Editor, 5th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, Feb 2010.

Referee

• ACM Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing
• IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks
• Pattern Recognition Journal
• International Conference of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS)
• International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
• International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

Program committee member

• ACL 2011: Tracks on Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation; Language Resources; Multilinguality
• Empirical Methods in NLP, EMNLP 2011: Semantics Track
• Workshop on Cross lingual Information Access- Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies, IJCAI 2007
• Program Committee member, 10th Machine Translation Summit, Phuket, September, 2005
• International Conference on Global Wordnets (GWC)
• Language Resources Engineering Conference (LREC)
• International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS)
• Computational Linguistics Conference (COLING)

Founding member, South Asian Association for Language Prcoessing (SAALP) (involving SAARC countries), 2005

Conference/Workshop/Symposia organization

• Organizing Chair 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), IIT Bombay, India, December, 2012 (to be held)
• Organizing Chair 5th International Conference on Global Wordnet, IIT Bombay, India, Jan 31-Feb 4, 2010
• Summer workshop on Ontology,NLP, IE and IR, IIT Bombay, India, July, 2008
• Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages, IIT Bombay, India, April, 2006
• International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Languages, Goa, India, November 2002
• Universal Networking Language Summer School, Mumbai, India, April, 2003
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Mumbai, India, January, 1998

Media coverage of research

• Leading Marathi Channel of Dooradarshan "Sahyadri" covered the Indian Language Technology Activities at IIT Bombay in March 2004.
• Leading Indian dailies, weekies and monthlies ( Report in Times of India and Article in PC Quest in 2002 and
Mention in Express Computer in 2003)
• Le Montage in 2000

Courses conducted for leading industries of India and abroad

• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, March-April, 2000.
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, October, 1998.
• Operating Systems Principles and UNIX, February, 1997.
• Artificial Intelligence Programming, January, 1996.
• UNIX Internals, April, 1996.

Institute Services

• Department Post Graduate Committee Member 2008 till date
• Scholarship committee chair, 2007-2008
• IIT Bombay Hindi Web page construction committee: Convener, 2011

National Committees

• Member, National Board of Accreditation, India, 2011
• Chair, Project Review adn Steering Committee, North East Language Technology Projects, 2008 till date