Dr. Somdev Kar
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
India
Biography
Dr. Somdev Kar is an assistant professor of Linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He completed his MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad (India) in 2004. In 2005, he moved to the University of Tübingen in Germany to pursue doctoral research in Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Hubert Truckenbrodt and received his doctoral degree in 2009. His doctoral research is in the area of Optimality Theory (Phonology) and Distributed Morphology and with a focus on the syllable structure of Bangla. Dr. Kar also worked on the phonology of a group of Tibeto-Burman languages of Sikkim as part of his post-doctoral research at CIIL, Mysore, India.
Research Interest
Phonetics, Phonology (Optimality Theory), Morphology Speech Processing, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Publications
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Dwivedi, Pankaj and Kar, Somdev (2017). On Documenting Low Resourced Indian Languages: Insights from Kanauji Speech Corpus. Dialectologia, 19, 67-91
