Dr. Shiladitya Bhattacharya, a computational linguist with a PhD from JNU, specializes in machine translation, and is an NLP, AI-ML research enthusiast. A 2009 JRF scholar, he is currently working as an Assistant Visiting Faculty at AIESR, Amity University, Noida. Based in Delhi, Dr. Bhattacharya brings expertise in industry and academia and enjoys reading, music, theater, and fiction writing.
Dr. Shiladitya Bhattacharya holds a PhD in computational linguistics, completed in 2023 at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Girish Nath Jha, focused on the development of an interlingua-based model for English-Bangla machine translation, utilizing principles from Paninian framework. He brings extensive teaching and research experience, having held academic roles across multiple institutions. He currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Amity University, where he instructs courses in linguistics and actively contributes to departmental planning for research and resource creation. His past roles include Assistant Professor at GLA University and teaching assignments for two semesters at JNU. He also contributed as a senior computational linguist in a Google project on NLP solutions for the identifications of Hindi language variants in the internet. Dr. Bhattacharya also has industry experience as a computational linguist with Process9, Panlingua and DataOrb.ai, where he led initiatives in model training, data annotation, and the development of linguistic resources, such as bilingual dictionaries and tagsets as well as rule based transliteration systems.
Dr. Bhattacharya’s research interests include advanced topics like AI-ML, interlingua-based machine translation, computational lexicography, neural network models in NLP, and core linguistic areas like Syntax-Semantics interface, biolinguistics, Event semantics, language change-conflict-preservation-maintenance with a particular focus on Bangla language digital resource creation. His work also explores ethical considerations in machine translation and ontology development for Indian language computing. Apart from these, he is deeply interested in Indian grammatical and philosophical traditions.
Publication(s):
1. Bhattacharya, S., Singh, S., Kumar, R., Bansal, A., Bhagat, A., Dawer, Y., Lahiri, B., & Ojha, A. K. (2020). Developing a multilingual annotated corpus of misogyny and aggression. In Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2, 2020). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.07428
2. Bhattacharya, S. (2022). The language-dialect conflict in the Indian scenario and the question of the rights of the Dalit and the marginalized. In Dalit Sahitya Charcha (pp. 22-34). Gangchil. ISBN: 9788181439987
3. Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharjee, B., & Sarkar, S. (2024). A few observations on language gap between official communication and regional variety: A case study on selective occupational terminologies in West Bengal. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Voices of India and Beyond: Mobility, Sustainability and Technology. (To be published)
Amity Institute of English Studies And Research (AIESR)