Team Member
2011-2013 in ‘Lohorung and Nepali Spoken Language’ project funded by Swedish Research Council at the Department of Linguistics, Gothenborg University, Sweden and Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Lalitpur, Nepal under leadership of Professor Jens Allwood and Professor Madhav Prasad Pokharel.
Responsibilities: Planning; leading the linguistic team on data (audio-video) collection, Transcription, analysis for spoken corpus of both the Lohorung and Nepali languages, and multilingual multimodal dictionary of Lohorung language; coordinating with the language community, writing research papers. http://desceco.org.np
Team Leader
2011-2012 नेपालका भाषाको प्रकारपरक अध्ययन (A typological study of languages of Nepal) funded research by University Grant Commission, Nepal as Faculty Research Grant.
Researcher
2011 ‘Cultural and Linguistic Documentation of Raji’ funded research by UNESCO carried at Santwona Memorial Foundation, Kathmandu under leadership of Professor Chura Mani Bandhu.
Responsibilities: Proposal writing, field work, data collection, transcription, analysis and report writing.
Research Assistant
2008 Proposal Drafting Committee, Linguistic Survey of Nepal, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, funded research by Planning Commission, Government of Nepal under leadership of Professor Yogendra P. Yadava.
Responsibilities: Collecting required data for proposal writing and drafting proposal.
Linguist
March 1, 2005 to December 15 2007 Nepali Language Resources and Localization for Education and Communication (NeLRaLEC, Bhasha Sanchar) Project at Patandhoka, worked as a researcher under leadership of Professor Pat Hall and Professor Yogendra Prasad Yadava, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University
Responsibilities: 1. For Stakeholder Survey: discussing questionnaire and field visit for resources and the needs on Language technology; 2. For Nepali National Corpus (written): text collection, Mark up tagging, POS tag set designing and POS tagging; (Spoken): planning recordings, collecting texts, preparing transcription manual, transcription, managing files, and writing report; 3. For Nepali Text-to-speech: preparing the phone set, preparing diaphone set, gathered words and sentences containing all the available diphones in Nepali, collecting and syllabification of the high frequent words, collecting abnormal text and normalizing it; 4. For Contemporary Nepali Dictionary: preparing POS for dictionary, entry writing, editing. Output used to be available at these two sites, however, these websites seems to be inactive:http://www.bhashasanchar.org; http://www.nepalisabdakos.com
Research Asssistant
2004. ‘Lohorung-Nepali-English: A Basic Dictionary’ (under the leadership of Professor Y. P. Yadava and Professor N. K. Rai), A Research Report Presented to the National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities, Kathmandu.
2004. ‘Mewahang-Nepali-English: A Basic Dictionary’ (under the leadership of Professor Y. P. Yadava and Professor M. P. Pokharel), A Research Report Presented to the National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities, Kathmandu.
Field research as a student
1998. Fieldwork on Bote and Darai languages for 15 days in Tanahu and Nawalparasi districts in Nepal as MA Linguistics student (under the leadership of Professor C. M. Bandhu).