I am a second year graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science. I am advised by Luis von Ahn. I completed my undergraduate education from VIT, Vellore in 2007 and spent an year as a researcher at IIIT, Hyderabad where I primarily worked on natural language processing with Anil Kumar Singh.

Research Interests

Human Computation, collaborative filtering, and their intersection.
Modelling and understanding language in general.

Professional Activities

Organization and Program Committee for NLPLPL at IJCNLP 2008
Organization for NERSSEAL at IJCNLP 2008
Student volunteer for ACL 2007

Publications

Estimating the Cost of Adapting the Resources of One Language for Another
Anil Kumar Singh, Kiran Pala and Harshit Surana
LREC, Marrakech, Morocco. 2008

A More Discerning and Adaptable Multilingual Transliteration Mechanism for Indian Languages
Harshit Surana and Anil Kumar Singh
IJCNLP, Hyderabad, India. 2008

Aggregating Machine Learning and Rule Based Heuristics for Named Entity Recognition
Karthik Gali, Harshit Surana, Ashwini Vaidya, Praneeth Shishtla and Dipti Misra Sharma
IJCNLP NERSSEAL, Hyderabad, India. 2008

Disambiguating Tense, Aspect and Modality Markers for Correcting Machine Translation Errors
Anil Kumar Singh, Samar Husain, Harshit Surana, Jagadeesh Gorla, Chinnappa Guggilla and Dipti Misra Sharma
RANLP, Borovets, Bulgaria. 2007

More Accurate Fuzzy Text Search for Languages Using Abugida Scripts
Anil Kumar Singh, Harshit Surana and Karthik Gali
ACM SIGIR iNEWS, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2007

Can Corpus Based Measures be Used for Comparative Study of Languages?
Anil Kumar Singh and Harshit Surana
ACL SIGMORHPON, Prague, Czech Republic. 2007

et caetera

A particular variety of gossip. Distinguished awards for 'services' to humanity.
Daydreaming about the Northwest. And on auditory research.