I have heard a lot about the Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of ISI Kolkata and searching for details. Will you provide basic details along with list of research work done in Linguistic Research Unit (LRU)?

The Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) was established by LRU logoProfessor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis, the Founder-Director of Indian Statistical Institute, in 1940’s or even earlier.

List of research work done in this department:

[1] Substantivist Lexicological Study of Bangla
Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta

[2] Interlexical Study of Asamiya in a Substantivist Framework
Principal Investigator:Probal Dasgupta

[3] Sociolinguistics
Principal Investigator:Probal Dasgupta

[4] Corpus Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT) System
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[5] Domain-Specific Parallel Corpora of Hindi and Bengali
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[6] POS Tagging of Bengali Words in the Bengali Corpus
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[7] Digital WordNet for Bengali
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[8] SHELL System for Teaching English to Bengali Learners
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[9] Field Linguistic Survey at Giridih, Jharkhand
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

[10] Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form
Principal Investigator:Niladri Sekhar Dash

Contact:

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