Kalika Bali
RESEARCHER
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I am a researcher in the Multilingual Systems Group in Microsoft Research India. My research interests lie in Speech and Language Technology for Education, NLP and Speech technology for Indian Languages, and Linguistic Resources and Standards for NLP/Speech. I am currently involved in Psycholinguistic experiment designs for Congitive Models of Language Processing.
Publications
- Rohan Ramanath, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, and Rishiaj Saha Roy, Crowd Prefers the Middle Path: A New IAA Metric for Crowdsourcing Reveals Turker Biases in Query Segmentation, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2013
- Sebastien Cuendet, Indrani Medhi, Kalika Bali, and Edward Cutrell, VideoKheti: Making video content accessible to low-literate and novice users, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2013
- Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram, Sebastien Cuendet, and Indrani Medhi, A Hindi Speech Recognizer for an Agricultural Video Search Application, ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV), January 2013
- Umair Z Ahmed, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, and Sowmya V. B., Challenges in Designing Input Method Editors for Indian Languages: The Role of Word-Origin and Context, in Proceedings of IJCNLP Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods , Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2011
- Ravee Malla, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Web Search with Visual Clues: A User Study, in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), HCIR, October 2011
- Nitin Dua, Kanika Gupta, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Query Completion without Query Logs for Song Search , in Companion of World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2011, March 2011
- Tirthankar Dasgupta, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, and Anupam Basu, Mental Representation and Access of Polymorphic Words in Bangla: Evidence from Cross-modal Priming Experiments, in In Proceedings of ICON-2010, Kharagpur, India, December 2010
- Frederick Weber and Kalika Bali, Enhancing ESL Education in India with a Reading Tutor that Listens, in Proceedings of ACM-DEV 2010. Dec 2010., December 2010
- Diwakar Mishra and Kalika Bali, Hindi Dialects Phonological Transfer Rules for Verb Root Cala, in Proceedings of O-COCOSDA 2010, November 2010
- Sankalan Prasad and Kalika Bali, Prosody Cues For Classification of the Discourse Particle "hã" in Hindi, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Tokyo, September 2010, September 2010
- Sowmya V. B., Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Tirthankar Dasgupta, and Anupam Basu, Resource Creation for Training and Testing of Transliteration Systems for Indian Languages, in Proceedings of the Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2010, European Language Resources Association, 2010
- Prasenjit Dey, Rahul Ajmera, RNV Sitaram, and Kalika Bali, Voice Key Board: Multimodal Indic Text Input, in Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and The Sixth Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, USA, in November 2009, November 2009
- Frederick Weber and Kalika Bali, Real voice and TTS Accent Effects on Intelligibility and Comprehension for Indian Speakers of English as a Second Language, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton,September 2009., September 2009
- Kalika Bali, “F0 Cues for the Discourse Functions of “hã” in Hindi”, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, September 2009, September 2009
- Sandipan Dandapat, Priyanka Biswas, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Complex Linguistic Annotation – No Easy Way Out! A Case from Bengali and Hindi POS Labeling Tasks, in Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009
- Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Diptesh Chatterjee, Sankalan Prasad, and Arpit Maheswari, Correlates between Performance, Prosodic and Phrase Structures in Bangla and Hindi: Insights from a Psycholinguistic Experiment, in Proceedings of International Conference on NLP (ICON), 2009
- Frederick Weber, Kalika Bali, Roni Rosenfeld, and Kentaro Toyama, Unexplored Directions in Spoken Language Technology for Development, in Proceedings of The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology. 2008, December 2008
- Kalika Bali, Sankaran Baskaran, and A Kumaran, Dependency Treelet-based Phrasal SMT: Evaluation and Issues in English-Hindi Language Pair, in the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2008), Pune, India., December 2008
- Priyanka Biswas, Sandipan Dandapat, Kalika Bali, and Monojit Choudhury, A corpus-based morpho-syntactic analysis of ‘kare’ in Bangla: Theory and applications, in Proceedings of the International Conference On NLP (ICON), 2008
- Baskaran Sankaran, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Girish Nath Jha, S. Rajendran, K. Saravanan, L. Sobha, and K. V. Subbarao, A Common Parts-of-Speech Tagset Framework for Indian Languages, in Proceedings of LREC 2008, European Language Resources Association, 2008