RESEARCH INTEREST

Natural language processing (NLP), example-based/ semantics -based/ statistical machine translation (EBMT/SBMT/SMT/MT), relation extraction, knowledge-base construction and inference, spoken dialog system, information retrieval, question answering, Artificial intelligence (AI).

EDUCATION

• The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
   Ph.D. Student, Information and Communication Engineering (Spring 2011 - Present)
  Supervisor: Professor Nishino Tetsuro;
  Co-supervisor: Dr. Setsuo Yamada
  Area of Study: Machine Translation
•  M.S. , Information and Communication Engineering (2009 - 2011)
  
• BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. B.S., Computer Science (2004 - 2008)
  Thesis: Example based English to Bengali Machine Translation

TECHNICAL  SKILLS

C, C++, Java, C#, JSP, Javascript, PHP, Visual Basic.Net (Around 50000 lines of codes, that's all I did in my life :p)

NLP Tools: NLPTK, OpenNLP, Giza++, Moses, Universal Networking Language Tools

COMMERCIALLY
DEPLOYED
SYSTEMS

UNL Explorer, UNL Center, UNDL Foundation, Tokyo: http://www.undl.org/unlexp/

• Online based UNL Graph Editor
• Multilingual Information Retrieval
• UNL Ontology Generator from natural language corpus.

“Akkhor”, 2003-present, Bangladesh, www.akkhorbangla.com,

• Developed the first transliteration system for Bengali Unicode.
• Phonetic Bangla Keyboard,
• First Bangla Chatbot
• Bangla Text to Speech system (Basic version)
• Bangla old texts in ASCII to Unicode (UTF8) Converter

Languge 

Bengali (Native), English (Advance), Japanese (Intermediate)
I can greet in 40 languages. Language is my hobby and I am promoting International Mother Language Day to be celebrated worldwide

PUBLICATIONS

(Conference)

(POSTER)

(OTHER)

Book: Khan Md. Anwarus Salam “Example-Based Machine Translation: English-Bengali”, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-3844386394. July 20, 2011.

Journal: Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, “Translation of Unknown Words for English to Bangla Machine Translation Using Transliteration”, Special Issue on Selected Best Papers of ICCIT 2011 and ICAEE 2011, JOURNAL OF MULTIMEDIA, VOL. 7, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2012 (accepted- on press, peer-reviewed).

○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Hiroshi Uchida, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino. “Universal Words Relationship Question-Answering from UNL Ontology”, 14th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel / Distributed Computing (SNPD) July 1 - 3, 2013 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. (accepted- oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Hiroshi Uchida, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino. “Universal Words Relationship Question-Answering from UNL Ontology”, 2nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2013). June16-20, 2013,Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan (accepted- oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Hiroshi Uchida, Meiying Zhu, Md. Anwarus Salam Khan, “UNL Explorer”. 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING  2012), Mumbai, India.  page 453-458 (Demos presentation, peer-reviewed)
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, “Sublexical Translations for Low-Resource Language”, Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages, Mumbai, India. 2012. ISSN: 2226-2105. IEEE Catalog No. CFP1244S-CDR. ISBN: 978-4673-1152-6. May 2012a. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, “Bangla phonetic input method with foreign words handling”, Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM 2), Mumbai, India. 2012.
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, H. Uchida, T. Nishino. “Multilingual Universal Word Explanation Generation from UNL Ontology”, Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogaLex), Mumbai, India. 2012. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, “Breaking the Language Barrier using Universal Networking Language (UNL)”, 13th APNG Camp, Seoul, Korea. August 2012. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed, best presentation award).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Hiroshi Uchida, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino. “UNL Ontology Visualization for Web”, 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel / Distributed Computing (SNPD 2012) August 08 - 10, 2012,
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, “Developing the First Balanced Corpus for Bangla Language”, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV2012), Dhaka, Bangladesh. ISSN: 2226-2105. IEEE Catalog No. CFP1244S-CDR. ISBN: 978-4673-1152-6. May 2012a. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, "Using WordNet to Handle the Out-Of-Vocabulary Problem in English to Bangla Machine Translation", Global WordNet Conference, Matsue, Japan, (Editors Christiane Fellbaum et. al., Tribun EU, Brno, 2012, ISBN 978-80-263-0244-5). Page 35-39. January 2012b. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino, "Translating Unknown Words Using WordNet and IPA-Based- Transliteration", ICCIT, Dhaka, Bangladesh. . ISBN: 978-1-61284-907-2. Page 481-486. December 2011a (oral presentation, peer-reviewed, best paper award).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Hiroshi Uchida and Tetsuro Nishino. “How to Develop Universal Vocabularies Using Automatic Generation of the Meaning of Each Word”, 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLPKE'11), Tokushima, Japan. ISBN: 978-1-61284-729-0. Page 243 - 246 November 2011b. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Yamada Setsuo and Tetsuro Nishino, "English-Bengali Parallel Corpus: A Proposal ", TriSAI - 2010, Beijing, China, October 2010a. (oral presentation).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino. “Developing an Evolving E-Learning System Interface for Students to Collaborate by Sharing Learning Resources”, 12th APNG Camp, proceeding published in JSSST (Japan Society for Software Science and Technology), Hiroshima, Japan, July 2010b. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino and Mumit Khan, "Example Based English-Bengali Machine Translation Using WordNet", TriSAI, Tokyo, Japan, October 2009. (oral presentation).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Setsuo Yamada and Tetsuro Nishino. “Example-Based Machine Translation for Low-Resource Language Using Chunk-String Templates”, 13th Machine Translation Summit, Xiamen, China. September 2011c. (poster presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino. “Question and Answering System for Learning-Resource-Repository”, Young Researchers' Roundtable 2010 on Spoken Dialog Systems, Tokyo (poster presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino. "Portfolio Based Learning-Resource -Repository" WIDE camp, September 2010, Nagano, Japan (www.wide.ad.jp) (poster presentation).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam. “Position paper on Spoken Dialog Systems”, Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 2011 (Organizing Committee member), Oregon, USA. June 2011. (poster presentation, peer-reviewed).
○Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino. “EEQRA: Evolving Easy Quantifiable Reading Assistant”, 13th APNG Camp, APRICOT 2011, Hong Kong, February 2011. (oral presentation, peer-reviewed).

Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Yamada Setsuo and Tetsuro Nishino , "English-Bengali Parallel Corpus: A Proposal ", TriSAI - 2010, pp 242, Beijing, China, October 2010.

Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Tetsuro Nishino and Mumit Khan, "Example Based English-Bengali Machine Translation Using WordNet", Tokyo, Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT – 2009

Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, “Developing an Evolving E-Learning System Interface for Students to Collaborate  by Sharing Learning Resources”, 12th APNG Camp, JSSST, Hiroshima, Japan, July 2010.

“Question and Answering System for Learning-Resource-Repository”, YRRSDS-2010, Tokyo
“English-Bengali Parallel Corpus: A Proposal”, WIDE Camp, September 2010

• Email:
  kmanwar@gmail.com