Smruthi Mukund

E-mail: abo9p2@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 508-***-****

Website: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~smukund/

Research Interests

Areas: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Sentiment Analysis,

Emotion Detection, Recommendation Systems, Text Segmentation, Sequence Labeling,

Machine Learning

DISSERTATION

Title: NLP framework for non-topical text analysis in resource poor languages

Solved the problem of emotion detection in a resource poor language like Urdu. State of the

art Natural Language Processing tools required to perform this task in newswire data were

implemented using statistical machine learning techniques based on resource sharing,

bootstrap learning and transfer learning. There is little or no dependency on annotated

resources. As an application of this work, also analyzed the output of the Urdu emotion

detection system and identified interesting linguistic cues that aid understanding of the

linguistic relativity hypothesis.

Education

PhD, Computer Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Feb. 2012

MS, Computer Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Feb. 2008

BS, EE, Visveswaraiah Technological University, Bangalore, India, Jun. 2003

Key Accomplishments

Instrumental in procuring research funding from Apollo Group (University of

Phoenix School of Distance Learning)

Led a team of four to be the Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition

2011

Research Experience (at SUNY Buffalo)

Project 1 Detecting student roles in eLearning discussion forums (Fall 2010 Spring

2011): Developed an active learning framework to detect student roles in e-Learning

discussion forums. Wrapper Induction technique combined with an information gain criterion

was used for feature selection to bootstrap the learning process.

Project 2 Generating a generic Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagger for Urdish data in Latin

script (Fall 2009): Developed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based POS tagger that

automatically tags English words with English POS tags and Urdu words with Urdu POS

tags. This tagger uses a voting scheme to suitably combine the confidence measures from two

different SVM taggers.

Project 3 Detecting promise statements in political campaign speeches (Fall 2009

Spring 2010): Developed a Vector Space Model (VSM) that detects promise statements

made by political leaders in their campaign speeches. Features that were explored include

linguistic hedges, VerbNet features and rhetoric features that help identify with high

accuracy, statements that include a promise, pledge or conviction in campaign speeches.

Project 4 - Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews (Fall 2008): Developed a VSM model that

automatically classifies a collection of movie reviews based on the opinions expressed as

being positive or negative.

Masters Project Multilingual Information Retrieval (Spring 2007): Developed a Part Of

Speech Tagger for Hindi using Bikel s Ergodic Hidden Markov Model (HMM) that explores

linguistic and morphological details of the language.

Publications

Journals

An Information Extraction System for Urdu A Resource Poor Language. Special

Issue on Information Retrieval for Indian Languages, 2010, Smruthi

Mukund, Rohini K. Srihari and Erik Peterson

Non-Topical Text Analysis in Urdu Newswire Data. Submitted to the Journal of

Computational Linguistics, Smruthi Mukund, Rohini K. Srihari

Conferences/Workshops

Segmenting eBay Item Descriptions into Coherent Segments. Workshop on

Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Data, 2011, Smruthi

Mukund, Nitin Indurkhya, Neel Sundaresan

Using Sequence Kernels to Identify Opinion Entities in Urdu. Proceedings of the

Fifteenth Conference of Natural Language Learning, 2011, Smruthi Mukund,

Debanjan Ghosh and Rohini K. Srihari

A Vector Space Model for Subjectivity Classification in Urdu aided by Co-Training.

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2010,

Smruthi Mukund and Rohini K. Srihari

Using Cross-Lingual Projections to Generate Semantic Role Labelled Annotated

Corpus for Urdu - A Resource Poor Language. Proceedings of the 23rd International

Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2010, Smruthi Mukund, Debanjan Ghosh

and Rohini K. Srihari

Context Aware Transliterations of Urdu Names. Proceedings of the Seventh

International Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2009, Smruthi Mukund,

Erik Peterson and Rohini K. Srihari

Discovering Voter Preferences in Blogs using Mixtures of Topic Models.

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data,

2009, Pradipto Das, Rohini K. Srihari and Smruthi Mukund

NE Tagging for Urdu based on Bootstrap POS Learning. Proceedings of the Third

International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the

Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIAWS3), 2009, Smruthi

Mukund and Rohini K. Srihari

Non-Writer Specific Handwriting Generation for the CAPTCHA Application.

Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing Society Western New York Image Processing

Workshop, 2007, Achint Oommen Thomas, Amalia Rusu, Smruthi Mukund,

and Venu Govindaraju

Press Coverage

Digitizing Urdu: Analysis of Documents, Social Networks in Pakistan's National

Language- by Audrey Watters, ReadWriteWeb.com, March 7, 2011, published by

The New York Times

Digitizing Urdu- by Ellen Goldbaum, University at Buffalo s News Center, March 3,

2011

News-oriented social network wins $10,000 tech competition- by Vincent Sherry,

April 27, 2011, published by Buffalo News, Business section

Entrepreneurship Competition Awards more than $10,000 to Info Tech Company-

by Jacqueline Ghosen, University at Buffalo s News Center, May 3, 2011

UB entrepreneurship competition announces winner- published in Buffalo Rising

and High Beam Research, May 12, 2011

New Trends in Data Mining and Analysis- by Rohini Srihari, United States Institute

of Peace (USIP), US State Department in Washington DC, Sept 16, 2011

Internships

Research Intern, eBay Research Labs, CA (May 2011 Aug 2011)

o Developed a novel clustering method to extract structured information from

eBay descriptions

o Involved in developing a modified POS tagger to handle noise in eBay

descriptions

Research Intern, Janya Inc, Amherst, NY (May 2010 Aug 2010)

o Developed a generic topic extractor for Urdu blog data that is based on an

incremental K-Means approach

o Developed an unsupervised language independent method for suffix removal

Research Intern, Janya Inc, Amherst, NY (May 2009 Aug 2009)

o Integrated Urdu NLP modules to SemantexTM a text extraction platform

o Developed transliteration system for Urdu Named Entities using phoneme

probabilities

Research Intern, EMC Corporation, Cambridge, MA (Jun 2007 Dec 2007)

o Involved in testing the Backup, Recovery and failover management of

PowerPath over different Arrays like CLARiiON, ALUA, Symmetrix, HP,

Invista devices connected to Solaris Hosts.

o Involved in development and maintenance of QE shared inventory tool called

ODB that is based on Perl/PHP/MySql (LAMPP)

Full Time Professional Experience

Senior Developer, Peertone Technologies, Bangalore, India (Jan 2008 Aug

2008)

o Involved in developing web service API using JAVA-Spring Framework

o Involved in optimizing query performance using PostGresSQL

Software Architect, Peertone Technologies, Bangalore, India (Jun 2008 Mar

2008)

o Developed the front end of OFFICESHARE client-side application using VC++

and MFC

o Integrated email client to OUTLOOK using MAPI

o Spearheaded entire client-side development and design activities

o Led a team of three and worked towards generating the web-client using

technologies like AJAX

o Managed the server side design and developed a client-server protocol using a

combination of HTTP, Multi-part form data and XML

Honors

Award and recognition for outstanding performance and lasting contribution given by

Mr. Jnan Dash, board member at Pandesa Corporation, 2005

Dr. Vijay Vittal award for academic excellence, BMS College of Engineering, India,

2003

Qualified for becoming the member of Mensa, a high IQ society with 98 percentile,

member, March 2002

All rounder s cup for academic excellence and participation in cultural activities,

Carmel Convent School, Jan 1997

Other Activities

Reviewer ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing,

International Conference on Data Mining

Member of Toastmasters International, LA, USA

3rd degree in Usui system of Reiki Natural Healing

References

Dr. Rohini K Srihari, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science and

Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

o Email: abo9p2@r.postjobfree.com (preferred)

o Phone: 716-***-****

o PhD dissertation Advisor and CEO of Janya Inc.

Dr. Neel Sundaresan, Senior Director and Head, eBay Research Labs, San Jose, CA

o Email: abo9p2@r.postjobfree.com (preferred)

o Manager at eBay Research Labs.

Dr. Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept of Computer Science

and Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

o Email: abo9p2@r.postjobfree.com (preferred)

o Phone: 716-***-****

o Advisor for Lectio Labs and course instructor

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