Linguistic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

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The Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata was established by Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis, the Founder-Director of Indian Statistical Institute.

The main research activity of the Unit was related to analysis of frequency of occurrence of words in vocabularies of prominent Bengali authors, namely, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya, and others.

Its objectives were three-fold:
(a) Working towards a basic Bengali primer based on colloquial Bengali;
(b) Preparing graded word list for use in textbooks for children in three different age groups, and
(c) Studying the vocabularies of representative authors in the stylistic (i.e., the objective analysis of individual style of authors) point of view.


Present Research Activities

1. Substantivist Lexicological Study of Bangla
2. Interlexical Study of Asamiya in a Substantivist Framework
3. Sociolinguistics
4. Corpus Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT) System
5. Domain-Specific Parallel Corpora of Hindi and Bengali
6. POS Tagging of Bengali Words in the Bengali Corpus
7. Digital WordNet for Bengali
8. SHELL System for Teaching English to Bengali Learners
9. Field Linguistic Survey at Giridih, Jharkhand
10. Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form


Faculty Members

Dr. Probal Dasgupta (Professor and Head)
[Areas of Specialization: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse, Pragmatics, Field Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Philosophy of Language]

Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash (Assistant Professor)
[Areas of Specialization : Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, WordNet, Computational Lexicography, Field Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Educational Technology, Bengali Linguistics]

Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay (Assistant Professor)


Contact Detail:
Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
Baranagar, Kolkata – 700108,
West Bengal, India
Phone (Off): +91- 033 - 2575 3281