Tafseer Ahmed Khan
Professor
University of Karachi
Pakistan
Biography
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed got his PhD from Universitaet Konstanz, Germany in 2009. He has teaching and research experience of more than 17 years in various institutes including University of Karachi, FAST NUCES Lahore, University of Konstanz and DHA Suffa University. He is working on computational linguistics, text mining and machine learning. His goal is the development of solutions for Pakistani languages. He was publication chair of 4th Conference of Language and Technology 2012, program chair of 5 th Conference of Language and Technology 2014 and publication chair of 3rd International Conference of Linguistic Association of Pakistan, 2017. Dr. Tafseer Ahmed has done his post doctoral work on Computational Grammar of Urdu from University of Konstanz. He has worked on Urdu Propbank for University of Colorado, Boulder. He was co-PI of the DAAD, Germany funded project “Urdu Text to Speech: Understanding Intonationâ€.
Research Interest
Computational Linguistics, Text Mining and Machine Learning