Priya Rani

Priya graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University with a Bachelor degree in Chinese Language, Literature and Culture study in 2015 and Master’s degree in Linguistics in 2018 She also holds an M. Phill in Linguistics from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University in 2019. During the course of her studies she also worked as a senior linguist at Samsung R&D, Banglore, India, and Panlingua Language Processing LLP, New Delhi, India for short term projects. As a Linguist, her research area and academic background lie at the Junction of Linguistics and Computer Science, focusing on Natural Language Processing.

Her Masters thesis: Agreement in Rajbansi, and tries to find out morphological parameters and syntactic structure of the agreement system within Principle and Parameters framework. In her M.phil thesis: A Pragmatic Study of Gender-Directed Offensive and Threatening Language on Social media with Application in its Automatic Detection. It focuses on the pragmatic study of the linguistic structure helpful in detecting offensive language with especial reference to gender in code-mixed languages. In March 2019, She received DAAD fellowship to join International Spring School in Advanced Language Engineering conducted by University of Konstaz, Germany and University of Moratowa, Sri Lanka.

Currently, she is working on Minority languages of India, Magahi and Bhojpuri in particular.

Supervisors: Dr. John McCrae & Dr. Theodorus Fransen