CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Gurpreet Singh Lehal

 

 

Professor,

Computer Science Department,

Punjabi University, Patiala.

Director,

Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language Literature and Culture,

Punjabi University, Patiala.

Degrees:

Employment:

Courses Taught:

 

Member:

1.       IEEE

2.       ACM

 

Language Software and Technologies developed:

(http://uh.learnpunjabi.org/)

(Released by Sardar Parkash Singh Badal, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Punjab in 2008)

(http://s2g.advancedcentrepunjabi.org)

(Released by Mr. Thiru Dayanidhi Maran Hon'ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2007)

(Released by Mr. Thiru Dayanidhi Maran Hon'ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2007)

"www.learnpunjabi.org"

(Launched by Maharani Preneet Kaur, Hon'ble Member of Parliament in 2005)

(Released by Mr. Arjun Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister of Human Resource Development in 2004)

 

Research Funding, Consultancies and Grants

Year

Funding Agency

Project

My role

Budget

2010-2013

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India

Development of Robust Document Analysis and Recognition System for Bilingual Printed Gurmukhi Script and Urdu Script

Chief Coordinator

Rs. 105.0 Lakh

2010-2012

Department of Science and Technology, India

Punjabi Text to Speech Help for people with cognitive disabilities

Chief Coordinator

Rs. 18.62 Lakh

2009-2010

The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) Grants, Australia

Web based Transliteration and Translation System between Urdu and Hindi Languages

Chief Coordinator

US$ 29,896

2009-2014

University Grants Commission, India

Special Assistance Programme -DRS-II (Thrust Area : Digital Image Processing)

Co-Coordinator

Rs. 51.0 Lakh

2008-2009

Defence R&D Organization, India

Transliteration system from Urdu to Devnagri

Principal Investigator

Rs. 9.9 Lakh

2008-2010

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India

Development of a grammar checking system for Punjabi

 

Principal Investigator

Rs. 25.48 Lakh

2007

Defence R&D Organization, India

Transliteration system from Urdu/Kashmiri to Roman script and reverse

Principal Investigator

Rs. 1.25 Lakh

2006-2009

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India

Development of Robust Document Analysis and Recognition System for Printed Gurmukhi Script

Chief Coordinator

Rs. 36.0 Lakh

2006-2008

Pan Asia Grants, Singapore

Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration Solution for Networking

Chief Coordinator

US$ 30,000

2005

MP Local Area Development Fund, Maharani Perneet Kaur, MP Patiala

Multi-media based Website for Online Teaching of Punjabi

(www.learnpunjabi.org) & Establishment of Natural Language Processing Lab

Project Leader

Rs. 20.0 Lakh

2004-2009

University Grants Commission, India

Special Assistance Programme(Thrust Research Areas : Punjabi Speech Synthesis and Gurmukhi OCR)

Coordinator

Rs. 45.0 Lakh

2000-2003

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India

Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions- Punjabi

Chief Coordinator

Rs. 81.0 Lakh

 

Conferences/Workshops Organized

 

International Research Collaborations

·         Chief Coordinator of Indo-UK joint project “Web based Transliteration and Translation System between Urdu and Hindi Languages” with University of Manchester, UK   during 2009-2010. Project sponsored under ISIF grants, Australia.

·         Chief Coordinator of Indo-UK joint project “Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration Solution for Networking” with University of Manchester, UK   during 2006-2008. Project sponsored under Pan-Asia grants, Singapore.

National Research Collaborations

·         Working in Consortium mode with 15 premier institutes in India, with IIT Delhi as Consortium Leader. Other participating institutes include IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Gauhati, IIIT Hyderabad, ISI Calcutta, CDAC and IISC Bangalore for Development of Robust  Document Analysis and Recognition System for Bilingual Printed Gurmukhi Script and Urdu Script  during 2010-2013.

·         Chief coordinator of  project “Punjabi Text to Speech Help for people with cognitive disabilities” in collaboration with IIT Delhi and GNEC Ludhiana during 2010-2012.

·         Worked in Consortium mode with 11 national Institutions, with IIT Delhi as Consortium Leader, for Development of Indic Script Optical Character Recognition Systems during 2006-2009.

Publications:

 

Journals:

 

1.       P Singh and G. S. Lehal, “Syllables Selection for the Development of Speech Database for Punjabi TTS System”, IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 7, Issue 6, pp. 164-168 (November 2010).

2.       K K Batra and G S Lehal, “Rule Based Machine Translation of Noun Phrases from Punjabi to English”, IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 7, Issue 5, pp. 409-413 (September 2010).

3.       V Gupta, G.S.Lehal, “A Survey of Text Summarization Extractive Techniques”, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence , Volume 2, No. 3,  pp. 258-268 (2010).

4.       V Goyal, G.S.Lehal, “Web Based Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence , Volume 2, No. 2,  pp. 148-151 (2010).

5.       G S Lehal, “A Survey of the State of the Art in Punjabi Language Processing”, Language In India, Volume 9, No. 10,  pp. 9-23 (2009).

http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/44994107/A-Survey-of-the-State-of-the-Art-in-Punjabi-Language-Processing/fulltext

6.       V Goyal, G S Lehal, “Advances in Machine Translation Systems”, Language In India, Volume 9, No. 11, pp. 138-150(2009).

7.       V Goyal and G S Lehal, "Evaluation of Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System", International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume 4, No. 1, pp. 36-39 (2009).

8.       M K Jindal, G S Lehal and R K Sharma, “On Segmentation of Touching Characters and Overlapping Lines in Degraded Printed Gurmukhi Script”, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Volume 9, No. 3, pp. 321-353 (July 2009).

9.       V Gupta and G S Lehal, "A Survey of Text Mining Techniques and Applications", Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 60-76 (August 2009).

10.   K K Batra and G S Lehal, “On Translation of Verb Phrases from Punjabi to English”, Atti Della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi (Italy), Volume LXIV, No. 2, pp. 245-251 (2009)

11.   M S Gill, G S Lehal and S S Joshi, “Parts of Speech Tagging for Grammar Checking of Punjabi”, The Linguistics Journal, Volume 4, No. 1, pp. 6-22 (May 2009).

12.  V Goyal and G S Lehal, “A Machine Transliteration System for Machine Translation System : An Application on Hindi-Punjabi Language Pair”, Atti Della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi (Italy), Volume LXIV, No. 1, pp. 27-35 (2009)

13.   G S Josan and G S Lehal, “Size of N for Word Sense Disambiguation using N Gram Model for Punjabi Language”, International Journal of Translation, Vol. 20, No. 1-2, pp. 47-56 (2008).

14.   T S Saini and G S Lehal “Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration System: A Corpus based Approach”, Research in Computing Science (Mexico), Volume 33, pp. 151-162 (2008).

15.   V Gupta and G S Lehal, " Proposed Architecture for Punjabi Language Question Answering using Text Mining", Karpagam Journal of Computer Science, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 554-562 (Feb. 2008).

16.   V Goyal and G S Lehal “Comparative Study of Hindi and Punjabi Language Scripts”, Nepalese Linguistics, Volume 23, pp. 67-82 (2008).

17.  M S Gill, G S Lehal, and S S Joshi, “A full-form lexicon based morphological analysis and generation tool for Punjabi”, International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 38-47 (October 2007).

18.   M K Jindal, R K Sharma and G S Lehal, "Segmentation of Horizontally Overlapping Lines in Printed Indian Scripts", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), Volume 3, No. 4, pp. 277-286 (Dec 2007).

19.  G S Lehal, "A Gurmukhi Collation Algorithm", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 60-64 (Jan 2007).

20.  V Gupta and G S Lehal, "Text Mining approach for Punjabi language Synonyms detection", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 65-69 (Jan 2007).

21.  G S Lehal, "Design and Implementation of Punjabi Spell Checker", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 70-75 (Jan 2007).

22.  G S Joshan and G S Lehal, "Evaluation of Direct Machine Translation System from Punjabi to Hindi", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 76-83 (Jan 2007).

23.  G. S. Lehal and Chandan Singh, "A Complete Machine Printed Gurmukhi OCR System", Vivek,  pp. 10-17, Vol. 16, No. 3. (2006).

24.  M K Jindal, G S Lehal and R K Sharma, “Segmentation problems and solutions in printed degraded Gurmukhi text”, International Journal of Signal Processing, Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 258-267, (2005)

25.  M K Jindal, G S Lehal and R K Sharma, “A Study of touching characters in degraded Gurmukhi text”, Transactions On Engineering, Computing And Technology, Volume 4, pp. 121-124, (2005)

26.  G S Lehal and H S Bhatti, “Computer and Punjabi Language”, Punjabi Dunia, pp. 23-39, (Dec. 2004)

27.  G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A Post Processor for Gurmukhi OCR”, SADHANA  Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 27, Part 1, pp. 99-112, (2002)

28.  G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “Feature extraction and classification for OCR of Gurmukhi script”, Vivek, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 2-12 (1999).

 

International Conference Proceedings:

 

1.       Vishal Goyal and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”, Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 System Demonstrations, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 1–6. (2011).

2.       Manoj K. Sachan, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, and Vijender Kumar Jain, “A Novel Method to Segment Online Gurmukhi Script”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-8. (2011).

3.       Parminder Singh and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “A Rule Based Schwa Deletion Algorithm for Punjabi TTS System”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 98-103. (2011).

4.       Gurpreet Singh Lehal, and Tejinder Saini, “A Transliteration Based Word Segmentation System for Shahmukhi Script”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science,  Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 136-143. (2011).

5.       Jasbir Singh and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Optimizing Character Class Count for Devnagari Optical Character Recognition”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 144-149. (2011).

6.       Rajneesh Rani, Renu Dhir, and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Comparative Analysis of Gabor and Discriminating Feature Extraction Techniques for Script Identification”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 174-179. (2011).

7.       Vishal Goyal and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 236-241. (2011).

8.       Vishal Gupta and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Preprocessing Phase of Punjabi Language Text Summarization”, Information Systems for Indian Languages, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 250-253. (2011).

9.        G. S. Lehal, "Urdu to Devnagri Transliteration System", Accepted for Presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, London, UK. (2010).

10.    G. S. Lehal and T. S. Saini, "A Hindi to Urdu Transliteration System”, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 235-240, Kharagpur, India. (2010)

11.    V. Goyal, G. S. Lehal, "Automatic standardization of spelling variations of Hindi text", Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT),  Allahabad, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA,  pp 764-767. (2010).

12.    G. S. Lehal, “A Word Segmentation System for Handling Space Omission Problem in Urdu Script”,  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), pp. 43–50, the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Beijing. (2010).

13.    G. S. Lehal, “A Two Stage Word Segmentation System For Handling Space Insertion Problem In Urdu Script”, Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, Vol. 60, pp 321-324. (2009)

14.    G. S. Lehal, “A Gurmukhi to Shahmukhi Transliteration System”, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 167-173, Hyderabad, India. (2009)

15.    D. Sharma, G. S. Lehal, "Shape Encoded Post Processing of Gurmukhi OCR", Proceedings of 9th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition,  Barcelona, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA,  pp 788-792. (2009).

16.    D. Sharma, G. S. Lehal, "Form Field Frame Boundary Removal for Form Processing System in Gurmukhi Script", Proceedings of 9th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition,  Barcelona, Spain. (2009).

17.    G.S. Lehal, "Optical Character Recognition of Gurmukhi Script using Multiple Classifiers", Proceedings of International Workshop of Multilingual OCR,  Article No. 7, Barcelona, Spain. (2009).

18.    D. Sharma, G. S. Lehal, P. Kathuria "Digit Extraction and Recognition from Machine Printed Gurmukhi Documents", Proceedings of International Workshop of Multilingual OCR,  Article No. 12,  Barcelona, Spain. (2009).

19.    D. Sharma, G. S. Lehal, "A Fast Skew Detection and Correction Algorithm for Machine Printed Words in Gurmukhi Script", Proceedings of International Workshop of Multilingual OCR,  Article No. 15, Barcelona, Spain. (2009).

20.    M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "Segmentation of touching characters in upper zone in printed Gurmukhi script", Proceedings of the 2nd Bangalore Annual Compute Conference,  Bangalore, Publisher ACM, USA, Paper No. 9. (2009).

21.    M. S. Gill and G. S. Lehal, “A Grammar Checking System for Punjabi”, Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters and Demonstrations, Manchester, UK, pp. 149-152 (August 2008).

22.    G. S. Josan and G. S. Lehal, “A Punjabi to Hindi machine Translation System”, Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters and Demonstrations, Manchester, UK, pp. 157-160 (August 2008).

23.    T. S. Saini, G. S. Lehal and V. S. Kalra, “Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration System”, Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters and Demonstrations, Manchester, UK, pp. 177-180 (August 2008).

24.    V. Goyal and G. S. Lehal, "Hindi Morphological Analyzer and Generator", Proceedings First International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology,  Nagpur,  IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 1156-1159 (2008).

25.    M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "Structural Features for Recognizing Degraded Printed Gurmukhi Script", Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2008),  Las Vegas, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 668-673. (2008).

26.    M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "A Study of Different Kinds of Degradation in Printed Gurmukhi Script,", Proceedings International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07),  Kolkata, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 538-544. (2007).

27.    M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "Segmentation of Horizontally Overlapping Lines in Printed Gurmukhi Script,", Proceedings 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, Surathkal, IEEE Computer Society Press, NJ, USA, pp. 226-229. (2006).

28.    P. Singh and G S Lehal, "Text-to-Speech Synthesis system for Punjabi language", Proceedings International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, Merida, Spain, pp.388-391. (2006).

29.    D V Sharma and G S Lehal, “An Iterative Algorithm for Segmentation of Isolated Handwritten Words in Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, Vol 2, pp 1022-1025. (2006).

30.    G S Lehal and M Bhagat, “Error Pattern in Punjabi Typed Text”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Machine Translation, NLP and TSS, New Delhi, pp. 128-141, (2004) 

31.    G S Lehal , Chandan Singh and Renu Dhir, “Structural feature-based approach for script identification of Gurmukhi and Roman characters and words”, Document Recognition and Retrieval X, Proceedings SPIE, USA, Vol. 5010 (2003). (Accepted for publication)

32.    G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A complete OCR system for Gurmukhi script”, Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition, T. Caelli, A. Amin, R.P.W. Duin, M. Kamel and D. de Ridder (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2396, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 344-352, (2002)

33.    G S Lehal , Chandan Singh and Renu Dhir, “Automatic separation of Gurmukhi and Roman script words”, Proceedings Indo-European Conference on Multilingual Communication Technologies, Pune, R. K. Arora, M. Kulkarni and H. Darbari (Editors), Tata McGraw-Hill, pp. 32-38, (2002)

34.    G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “Text segmentation of machine printed Gurmukhi script”, Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII, Paul B. Kantor, Daniel P. Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou, Editors, Proceedings SPIE, USA, Vol. 4307, pp. 223-231, (2001).

35.    G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, "A technique for segmentation of Gurmukhi text”, Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, W. Skarbek (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2124, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 191-200 (2001)

36.    G S Lehal, Chandan Singh and Ritu Lehal , "A shape based post processor for Gurmukhi OCR”, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press,  USA, pp. 1105-1109, (2001)

37.    G. S. Lehal and Nivedan Bhatt, “A recognition system for Devnagri and English handwritten numerals”,  Advances in Multimodal Interfaces – ICMI 2001, T. Tan, Y. Shi and W. Gao (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1948, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 442-449. (2000).

38.    G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A Gurmukhi script recognition system”, Proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, Vol 2, pp 557-560. (2000).

39.    Ajay Goyal, G S Lehal and S S Deol, “Segmentation of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 9th International Graphonomics Society Conference, Singapore, pp. 293-297, (1999)

40.    G S Lehal and Renu Dhir, “A  Range Free Skew Detection Technique for Digitized  Gurmukhi Script Documents”, Proceedings 5th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Bangalore, IEEE Computer Society Press,  California, USA, pp. 147-152, (1999)

41.    G S Lehal and Sunil Madan, “A New Approach to Skew detection and Correction of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 2nd International Conf. on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, pp. 215-224 (1998)

 

International Book/ Book Chapter:

1.                  Chandan Singh, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Jyotsna Sengupta, Dharam Veer Sharma and Vishal Goyal (Eds.), “Information Systems for Indian Languages: International Conference, Proceedings ICISIL 2011”, Volume 139 of Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, Springer, Germany. (2011)

2.                  Vishal Goyal and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”,  Lambert Academic Publishing,   Germany. (2010)

3.                  Gurpreet Singh Josan and Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Machine Translation Among Closely Related Language : Indian Languages Perspective”,  Lambert Academic Publishing,   Germany. (2010)

4.                  Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Chapter Title: “A Complete Machine Printed Gurmukhi OCR System”, Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts, Series: Advances in Pattern Recognition, Springer, Germany. (2009)

 

Visits Abroad

 

  1. 2011: Conducted a One day Workshop on Punjabi Language and Technology at Columbia University, USA.
  2. 2011: Conducted a One day Workshop on Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi Software tools at University of Maryland, USA.
  3. 2011: Conducted a Three day Workshop on Punjabi Language Education Technology at Kwantleen Polytechnic University, Surrey, Canada
  4. 2010: Demonstrated the Urdu to Devnagri Transliteration System in IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, London, UK.
  5. 2010: Invited talk on Software Tools for Punjabi Language Processing and Learning in International Conference on “Sikhs in Europe. Migration, Identity and Translocal Practices”, Luund University, Sweden.
  6. 2009: Chaired a session and presented paper on A Two Stage Word Segmentation System For Handling Space Insertion Problem In Urdu Script in World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.
  7. 2009: Indo-UK joint project “Web based Transliteration and Translation System between Urdu and Hindi Languages” , University of Manchester, UK.
  8. 2008: Workshop on Punjabi teaching materials for internet use, The Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
  9. 2008:  Demonstrated the Grammar Checking System for Punjabi  in the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Manchester, UK .
  10. 2007: Workshop on Punjabi teaching materials for internet use, The Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
  11. 2007: Invited to Learning Forum by ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE, Singapore.
  12. 2006: Indo-UK joint project “Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration Solution for Networking”,  University of Manchester, UK.
  13. 2003: Invited talk on Computers and Punjabi in 2nd World Punjabi Conference, Prince George, Canada..
  14. 2001: Presented paper on A shape based post processor for Gurmukhi OCR in 6th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, USA.
  15. 1999: Presented paper on Segmentation of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script in 9th International Graphonomics Society Conference, Singapore.

Contact:

Phone : +91-175-3046171 (O)

              +91-175-2283502 (R)

              +91-9815473767 (M)

 

Fax : +91-175-3046313

Email : gslehal@gmail.com, gslehal@yahoo.com

 

Last Modified : 14th   June, 2011