Amba Kulkarni

Research Interests:
Keynote Addresses/Introductory Speeches:
  1. "Relevance of Indian Grammatical Tradition to Computational Linguistics", at Faculty Development Programme, organised by Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Tiruchirapalli, 27th Nov, 2024
  2. "Challenges and Opportunities in Language Technology", International conference on Challenges in Language Technology, Annamalai University, 6-7 Feb 2020
  3. "Information Coding in Language: Some insights from Indian Grammatical Tradition", International conference on NLP, 20th Dec 2019, Hyderabad
  4. 'Panini: The foremost Information Scientist' on 14th May, 2017 at Furgusson College, Pune at '5th Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan and Expo'
  5. 'Panini and Information technology' on 21st August, 2015 at HPT College, Nasik, at 'A National Seminar on Language Skills and Language Technology'
  6. 'Sanskrit Computational Linguistics' on 7th March, 2014 at Devilal Chaudhury University, Hariyana, Sirsa, at 'A workshop on NLP'
  7. Anusaaraka: An Accessor cum Machine Translator, on 2nd November, 2009 at "First Workshop on Free Rule Based MT", at Alacante, Spain
  8. Relevance of Panini's Ashtadhyayi to the modern world on 13th February 2009, "Computer Science and its applications in Traditional Shastras" at Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati.
  9. Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics on 30th Oct 2007, at First International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Paris.
  10. Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation on 4th Jan 2007, at ICON-07, Hyderabad.
  11. Human Understandable Machine Learning in NLPAI Machine Learning Contest, part of National Workshop on AI, at NCST, Mumbai, July 4, 2006.
Recent Conference Presentations / Invited Talks:
  1. "Sanskrit Poetry Classification Based on Kavyagunas", Amruta Barbadikar and Amba Kulkarni, at 38th SALA, 28-30 Nov, 2024, Nagaland University, Kohima
  2. "Panini: The foremost Programmer", Vedavigyana Vyakhanamala, Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, 29th Oct 2020
  3. "Indian Grammatical theories from computational perspective", Vivekananda International Foundation, Delhi, 3-4 March, 2020
  4. "Teaching Sanskrit with innovative methods of Information Technology", Colloquium on Functional and Communicative Sanskrit, IIT BHubaneswar, 21st Dec 2019
  5. "A dialogue between Indian Grammatical Theories and Information Technology", presented at Veda Vigyan Sammelan, IIT BHU, 21-22 Sept 2019
  6. "Semantics of Morpho-syntactic case markers in Indian Languages: Sanskrit a case study", Madhusoodan Pai J, Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni, presented at the 47th AICDL international symposium, Gulbarga, June 20-22, 2019
  7. "Appropriate Dependency Tagset for Sanskrit Analysis and Generation" Presented at Sanskrit in China International Conference 2019: Sanskrit on Paths held at Chengudu April 27-28,2019
  8. Recursion and Combinatorial Mathematics in Chandashastra, Physics Club, Feb 27, 2019
  9. "Theories of Shabdabosha and mechanical parsing of Sanskrit texts", Nyaya theory of cognition: Issues and responses, University of Hyderabad, 9-10 Jan 2019
  10. "Sanskrit Sentence Generator", Madhusoodan Pai J and Amba Kulkarni, presented at the International Conference on Churning of Indology, Udupi, 4-6 Jan, 2019
  11. Invited by SynTalk (Mumbai, India) as a SynTalkr for #TTOTS (The Traits Of The Searchable on, December 01, 2018)
  12. Bridging the gap between Computational tools and Digital Sanskrit libraries: Where do we stand? Presented at a SARIT Workshop, IKGA, Vienna 22-24 May 2017
  13. Theories of Saabdabodha and Principles of Information Coding: A computational Perspective, presented at 'Science and Technology in Andic Tradition' an ICPR workshop at IISC Bangalore 4-5 Feb 2017 presentation and video
  14. ''Revival of Ancient Sanskrit Teaching methods using Computational Platforms'', presented at 'Bridging the gap between Sanskrit Computational Linguistics tools and management of Sanskrit Digital Libraries' workshop at ICON, Varanasi 18.1.2017
  15. ''Importance of Information Dynamics in Learning Human and Programming Languages'', presented at 'Language and Learning' at IIAs, Shimla 6.10.2016-8.10.2016
  16. ''Relevance of Mimamsa in Information Processing'', presented at a seminar organised by ICPR at Bangalore from 10.9.2016-11.9.2016
  17. Type Identifier for Navya Nyaya Expressions Arjuna S. R. and Amba Kulkarni,at the International Seminar on Philosophy at Jaipur University, during March 12-14 2016
  18. 'Sanskrit in the age of Information Technology' at National Seminar on Sanskrit-Development plan for next 10 years, at Udupi
  19. संगणकीय परिप्रेक्ष में 'च'कार युक्त वाक्यों का शाब्दबोधविचार Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni, at ASTRA, Deccan College, Pune, 9-11 Jan 2016
  20. Anusaaraka: Machine Translation and Language Accessor Akshar Bharati, Dipti Sharma, Amba Kulkarni and Soma Paul, at The International Conference on the Contribution of Advaita vedanta to Humanity, Kolwan, Nov 19-21, 2015
  21. How relevant is Panini Today? Amba Kulkarni, at Intellectual Traditions of Ancient India at Jain University, 27-29 August 2015
  22. "Dependency Parsing of Sanskrit texts" at seetaaraam Shastri Vyaakhyaanmaalaa, BHU Varanasi, 5th August 2015
  23. "Panini an Information Scientist" Special Lecture at Allahabad, Ganganath Jha Parisar, Rsks, 3rd August 2015
  24. Analysis and Graphical Representation of Navya-Nyaya-Expressions {न्यायचित्रदीपिका} Arjun S.R. and Amba Kulkarni, 16th WSC, 2015, Bangkok.(Presentation)
  25. समासप्रक्रियायां समासान्तानां स्थानम् Pavankumar, KV Ramakrishnamacharyulu and Amba Kulkarni, 16th WSC, 2015, Bangkok.(Presentation)
  26. E-Concordance of Paniniya Dhatupathas Amba Kulkarni and N Shailaja, at the workshop on Panini and Paninians of 16th and 17th centuries, Pondicherry, 14-16 Oct 2014
  27. Sanskrit Compound Generator Amba Kulkarni and Pavankumar Satuluri, at the workshop on Panini and Paninians of 16th and 17th centuries, Pondicherry, 14-16 Oct 2014
  28. Informatics in Panini's Grammar Amba Kulkarni, International Seminar on History and Philosophy of mathematics 2014, A tribute to Sir Ashutosh Mookherjee on his 150th Birth Anniversary, Bose Institute, Kolkata, 20-22 Feb 2014 (Presentation)
  29. Converting Constituency Structures to Dependency Structures for Sanskrit: Linguistic Issues Pavan Goyal and Amba Kulkarni, Special Session on `The recent developments in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics', at SALA-30, Hyderabad, 8th Feb 2014 Presentation
  30. Extra Linguistic Information needed for Automatic Generation of Sanskrit Compounds: A study Pawan Kumar S and Amba Kulkarni, Special Session on `The recent developments in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics', at SALA-30, Hyderabad, 8th Feb 2014 Presentation
  31. Treating utthita and utthapya akanksas independently for efficient parsing Amba Kulkarni and Pavan Kumar, Sanskrit Syntax Seminar, Paris, 13-15 June 2013 Presentation
  32. How `Free' is the Free Word Order in Sanskrit? Amba Kulkarni, Preeti Shukla and Devanad Shukl, Sanskrit Syntax Seminar, Paris, 13-15 June 2013 Presentation
  33. JRR Sanskrit University, Jaipur: 'paa.ninishaastre sanganitravijnaana' at Padmashrii Mandana Mishra Memorial Lecture series, on 9th March 2013
  34. Rajasthan University: 'Panini eka suucanaa-shaastrajna', on 9th March 2013
  35. Saṅgaṇakīyaṃsaṃskṛtam. Journée du sanskrit, Maison de l'Inde, Cité Universitaire, Paris (with Gérard Huet) on 30th June 2012.
  36. Phrase in English - a Pada in Paninian Grammar Akshar Bharati, Sukhada, Dipti Sharma and Amba Kulkarni, 15th WSC 2012, Delhi Jan 5-10
  37. "Analysis of Sanskrit Compounds", A talk at Conferences organised by Peter Scharf (Chair Blaise Pascal) on 21st June 2012, at Laboratoire d'histoire des the'ories linguistiques, University of Paris-Diderot. presentations
  38. Mathematical modeling of Akaa.nkshaa and Sannidhi for parsing Sanskrit Amba Kulkarni,Devanand Shukl, Sheetal Pokar, 15th WSC 2012, Delhi Jan 5-10 presentation
  39. "Language, Lingustics and Processing", invited talk at KIIT-Bhubaneshwar on 22nd October 2011
  40. The Knowledge Structure in the Sanskrit Koshas at The Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia at the Heidelberg University, Germany on 26th May .2011 presentation
  41. Computational tools to assist a Sanskrit Student at the Institute of South and Central Asia of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles University, Prague on 11th May 2011
  42. Importance of Accent in Paniniya Dhatupatha Devanand Shukl and Amba Kulkarni at SALA roundtable 29, CIIL, Mysore. Jan 2011. Sanskrit Version
  43. The Knowledge Structure in Sanskrit ko'sas Amba Kulkarni and Sivaja S. Nair, Presented at the Indo-Wordnet workshop on 8th Dec. 2010, at IIT Kharagpur. presentations
  44. A Constraint based Dependancy Parser for Sanskrit at the one day International Seminar 'Indian Linguistic Thought in Retrospect and Prospect' on 19th Feb 2010 at Calicut University, Kerala.
  45. Encapsulating quantifiers with the typed variables at TIFR Mumbai on 2nd Feb 2010.
  46. 'sa"nga.naka-mAdhyamena anvaya.h-kA"scana samasyA.h' at the Colloquim on Problems of Communication (Shabdabodha Theories) on 30th Jan 2010, at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala.
  47. A joint presentation with Peter Scharf: 'Developing computational resources to conduct linguistic research on Sanskrit and provide digital access to Sanskrit texts and manuscripts' at the International Workshop on Computer and Sanskrit Studies, on 27th Jan, 2010 at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. Presentations:Part-I, Part-II,Part-III, Part-IV.
  48. Vibhakti Level Divergences between Sanskrit and Hindi Preeti Shukla, Devanand Shukl and Amba Kulkarni, in the proceedings of AICL 2009; 31st All India Congress on Linguistics, Dec 15-17, 2009
  49. Jagellion University, Cracow, Panini's Ashtadhyayi: A Computational Linguist's Perspective, 17th Nov 2009
  50. Jagellion University, Cracow, "Sanskrit and Computers", 16th Nov 2009
  51. University of Dusseldorf, Germany: Panini's Ashtadhyayi: A Computational Linguist's perspective, on 7th Nov 2009
  52. University of Dusseldorf, Germany: Anusaaraka: A Language Accessor cum Machine Translator, on 6th Nov 2009
  53. 'Subject' in English is abhihita Amba Kulkarni, Presented at 14th Sanskrit World Conference, Kyoto, Japan. Sept 1-5, 2009
  54. Panini: An Information Scientist on 1 day Symposium on Dr Vineet Chaitanyaji's 65th Birthday, on 4th April, 2009 at IIIT-Hyderabad
  55. Subject in English is abhihita on 1 day Workshop on Machine Translation at Dept of Linguistics, Osmania University, on 26th Mar 2009
  56. Developing network of Sanskrit words across Part-Of-Speech categories: Sivaja S. Nair, Pritilaxmi Swain and Amba Kulkarni, Presented at "National Seminar on Computer Science and its Applications in Traditional Shastras" at Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati, 13-14 Feb, 2009
  57. Workshop on Hindi-Urdu Treebank, 12-13 Jan, 2009, IIIT Hyderabad
  58. Panini's Ashtadhyayi: A Computer Scientist's viewpoint
    Presented at 4th Asia Pacific Conference of Computational Philosophy, NIAS, IISC, Bangalore, 5th - 7th Dec 2008
  59. Information Coding in a language: Some insights from Paninian Grammar, Second International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, 15th - 17th May 2008, Brown University, USA
  60. English Grammar: A Paninian Perspective, presented at symposium on History of Classical Indian Sciences organized jointly by Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research and Centre for Philosophy(NIAS), February 25 and 26, 2008
  61. JNU, Delhi: 'Panini: Father of Informatics', on 19th Jan 2008
  62. "Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation" Keynote address at ICON-07 Presentation
  63. Proposed Vedic Sanskrit Coding Scheme: Some suggestions, presented at a National Seminar on oral tradition and written text of Indian Languages: Shubham Bhavatu, at CDAC Mumbai, 10- 11th March, 2007Presentation
  64. "Grammarians' interface for English Parsers", National seminar on 'Sanskrit for Innovations',Center for Advanced Studies in Sanskrit, University of Pune, Pune, July 24-27, 2006
  65. 'Building a Wide Coverage Morphological Analyser for Sanskrit: A Practical Approach', invited speech at 'First National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages', 31st March - 4th April 2006, IIT Mumbai
  66. Anusaaraka: A Better approach for MT Presentation slides of the talk delivered at IIT Mumbai, on 6th Feb 2006 Complete presentation slides for download
  67. WSD of To-Infinitive into Hindi : An Information Based Approach
    Presented at the Platinum Jubilee Conference of Linguistic Sociey of India, 6-8 Dec, 2005,at CALTS, University of Hyderabad, India Presentation
  68. Anusaaraka: A better approach to Machine Translation { A case study for English-Hindi/Telugu}
    Presented at Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu; A 3 day National conference, 8-10 October, 2003, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
  69. JNU, Delhi: 'Anusaaraka', August 2002.
  70. NLP saathii samskrit shaaswraamcaa upayoga(in Marathi)
    (presented at Brihan Maharashtra Vidya Parishad pracya,21-23 January, 2002 Ramtek Nagpur)
  71. ISCII Plugin for displaying Indian langauge web pages
    (presented at Caturang, 5-6 March 2001, IUCAA, PUNE)
Publications -- DBLP
Recent Publications in Journals, Conference Proceedings and Book chapters:
  1. Amruta Barbadikar and Amba Kulkarni "Automatic Sanskrit Poetry Classification Based on Kāvyaguna", 21st ICON, AUKBC, Chennai, 19-22 Dec, 2024.
  2. Krishnan, S., Kulkarni, A. & Huet, G. Normalized dataset for Sanskrit word segmentation and morphological parsing. Lang Resources & Evaluation (2024). PDF Accepted: 16th January 2024; Published 28th August 2024
  3. Structure of Sanskrit Texts and their Computational processing. Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das, Vol 84(3-4), Indian Linguistics ISSN 0378-0759, 2023,pp 73-93.
  4. Yamaka Identifier and Classifier: A computational Tool for the Analysis of Sanskrit Figure of Speech, Amruta Barbadikar and Amba Kulkarni
  5. START: Sanskrit Teaching; Annotation; and Research Tool – Bridging Tradition and Technology in Scholarly Exploration. Anil Kumar, Amba Kulkarni and Nakka Shailaja, 2024.In Proceedings of the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, pages 113–124, Auroville, Puducherry, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  6. Anuprāsa Identifier and Classifier: A computational tool to analyze Sanskrit figure of sound. Amruta Vilas Barbadikar and Amba Kulkarni, 2024. In Proceedings of the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, pages 102–112, Auroville, Puducherry, India. Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF
  7. Inter Sentential Discourse Relations. Saee Vaze and Amba Kulkarni, 2024. In Proceedings of the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, pages 67–83, Auroville, Puducherry, India. Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF
  8. Word Sense Alignment of Sanskrit Lexica. Dhaval K Patel and Amba Kulkarni, 2024. In Proceedings of the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, pages 1–13, Auroville, Puducherry, India. Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF
  9. Issues in the computational processing of Upamā alaṅkāra, Bhakti Jadhav, Amruta Barbadikar, Amba Kulkarni and Malhar Kulkarni, ICON 2023 < a href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.icon-1.18.pdf"> PDF
  10. DepNeCTI: Dependency-based Nested Compound Type Identification for Sanskrit, Jivnesh Sandhan, Yaswanth Narsupalli, Sreevatsa Muppirala, Sriram Krishnan, Pavankumar Satuluri, Amba Kulkarni, Pawan Goyal, EMNLP, 2023 pdf
  11. Yamaka Identifier and Classifier: A computational tool for the analysis of Sanskrit figure of sound, Amruta Barbadikar and Amba Kulkarni, Annals of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 2023
  12. Recursion and iteration in combinatorics of Chandaśśāstra. Amba Kulkarni. Indian J Hist. Sci. (2023). pdf
  13. Validation and Normalization of DCS corpus and Development of the Sanskrit Heritage Engine’s Segmenter, Sriram Krishnan, Amba Kulkarni and G'erard Huet in Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities, selected papers presented at the 18th World Sanskrit Conference, Canberra, Eds. Amba Kulkarni and Oliver Hellwig, ACL Anthology, USA. pdf
  14. Disambiguation of Instrumental, Dative and Ablative Case suffixes in Sanskrit, Malay Maity, Sanjeev Panchal, and Amba Kulkarni in Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities, selected papers presented at the 18th World Sanskrit Conference, Canberra, Eds. Amba Kulkarni and Oliver Hellwig, ACL Anthology, USA. pdf
  15. Parsing Subordinate Clauses in Telugu using Rule-based Dependency Parser, P Sangeetha, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Amba Kulkarni, in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Parsing and its Applications for Indian Languages, ICON, Silcar,2021. pdf
  16. Appropriate Dependency Tagset for Sanskrit Analysis and Generation Amba Kulkarni, Acta Orientalia, Vol 80, pp 401-425, 2019-20
  17. A rule based Dependency Parser for Telugu: An experiment with Simple Sentences, Sangeetha P., Parameswari K, and Amba kulkarni,Translation Today, Vol 15, Number 1, pp 123-144. PDF
  18. Sanskrit Parsing Following Indian Theories of Verbal Cognition, Amba kulkarni,ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol 20, Number 2, pp 1-38,April 2021.
  19. Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness, Sanal Vikram and Amba Kulkarni, ICON 2020, IIT Patna
  20. Dependency relations for Sanskrit Parsing and Treebank, Amba Kulkarni and Pavankumar Satuluri and Sanjeev Panchal and Malay Maity and Amruta Malwade, at 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, 27-28 Oct 2020, aclweb presentation
  21. Sanskrit Segmentation Revisited, Sriram Krishnan and Amba Kulkarni, ICON 2019, IIIT Hyderabadacl anthology
  22. Dependency Parser for Sanskrit Verses, Amba Kulkarni, Sanal Vikram and Sriram K at 6th ISCLS, IIT Kharagpuracl anthology
  23. Sanskrit Sentence Generator, Amba Kulkarni and Madhusoodan Pai J at 6th ISCLS, IIT Kharagpuracl anthology
  24. Caśabdayuktavākyaviśleṣaṇam, Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni in "New Frontiers in Sanskrit and India Knowledge", pp 332-354, Dec 2019, New Bharatiya Book Corporation, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8315-431-4
  25. Co-ordination in Sanskrit Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni, Indian Linguistics, 80(1-2) 2019, pp 59-76, ISSN: 0378-0759
  26. Paaninian Syntactico-Semantic Relation Labels presented at Depling 2019, Paris (26-30 Aug, 2019) aclweb
  27. Revival of Ancient Sanskrit Teaching Methods using Computational Platforms Amba Kulkarni, Preeti Shukla and Devanand Shukla in 'Epistemological Diversity: Indian Tradition; Festschrift volume presented to Prof. P C Muraleemadhavan', ed Dr. K Viswanathan, Vijaya Books, 2019, pp:219-240. ISBN: 9789388820011
  28. PaaNiniiyadhaatuv.rttiinaam tulanaatamakamadhyanam" N Shailaja and Amba Kulkarni,Dhiimahi, Research journal of Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan, India, 2019, Vol 10, pp 22--38.
  29. Type-Identifier for Navya-Nyaaya expressions Amba Kulkarni and Arjuna S. R., Journal of Foundational Research, Vol XXIII 1-2 (Jan-July 2015), a special volume on 'daarshanika miimaamsaa evam Aachaarya Vishvambhar Paahi', Ed. Rajendra Prasad Sharma and Anubhav Varshneya, Rajasthan University, Jaipur, 2017
  30. Yogyataa as an absence of non-congruity Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni, in Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities, selected papers presented at the 17th world Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, Eds. Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni, D. K. Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd., July 2018, pp 59-82. Also avaialble online
  31. A Sanskrit Dictionary of Law and Statecraft: Book Review in Summer Hill, Vol 22, no 1, p.102, June 2018, Indian Institue of Advanced Study, Shimla Download
  32. Later Nyāya Logic: Computational Aspects. In: Sarukkai S. (eds) Handbook of Logical Thought in India. Springer, New Delhi, Jan 2018
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  33. Order of operations in the formation of Sanskrit compounds with special reference to introduction of Samaasaanta element and deletion of case endings" Pavankumar Satulri, K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu and Amba Kulkarni,pp:107-130, Journal of the oriental institute, vol 66, 2016-17,Vadodara
  34. Analysis and graphical representation of Navya-Nyaya expressions - Nyayacitradipika Arjuna S. R. and Amba Kulkarni, in 'Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics' ed by Amba Kulkarni, Select papers presented at 16th WSC, Bangkok, Thailand, D K Publishers, 2016.
  35. Application of Modern Technology to South Asian Languages Amba Kulkarni, Book section in The Languages And Linguistics of South Asia: A comprehensive Guide, eds. Hans Henrich Hock and Elena Bashir, De Gruyter, May 2016
  36. Brevity in Panini's Ashtadhyayi Amba Kulkarni, Book chapter in The Interwoven World: Ideas and Encounters in History, eds. Burjor Avari and George Gheverghese Joseph, New Directions in the Humanities, a book imprint by Common Ground Publishing, 2016
  37. How `Free' is the Free Word Order in Sanskrit? Amba Kulkarni, Preeti Shukla and Devanad Shukl, and Pavankumar Satuluri, Sanskrit Syntax, Ed Peter Scharf, Sanskrit Library, USA, June 2015.
  38. Ashtdhyayi-sutranam Samaasa-nirdhaaranaartham upayogah Amba Kulkarni and Anil Kumar, in Pratipitsa, Vol 2, No 1, Jan-Jun 2014, pages:1--18, Ed: Rajaram Shukl, BHU, Varanasi
  39. Segmentations of Navya Nyaya Expressions Arjun S.R. and Amba Kulkarni, ICON 2014, Goa.aclweb
  40. Sanskrit Linguistics and Web Services Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni, 25th COLING, 2014, Dublin, Ireland.aclweb
  41. Converting Phrase Structures to Dependency Structures in Sanskrit Pawan Goyal and Amba Kulkarni, 25th COLING, 2014, Dublin, Ireland.aclweb
  42. Constituency Parsing of Complex Noun Sequences in Hindi Arpita Batra, Soma Paul and Amba Kulkarni, CICLING, 2014 Kathamandu, Nepal, Apr 6-12, 2014.
  43. Generation of Sanskrit Compounds Pawankumar Satuluri and Amba Kulkarni, ICON, 2013 CDAC-Noida Dec 19-20 presentation
  44. Discourse Level Tagger for Mahabhasya - a Sanskrit Commentary on Panini's Grammar Monali Das and Amba Kulkarni, ICON, 2013 CDAC-Noida Dec 19-20 presentation
  45. Geeta: Gold Standard Annotated Data, Analysis and its Application Preeti Shukla, Amba Kulkarni and Devanand Shukl, ICON 2013, CDAC-Noida, Dec 19-20. presentation
  46. A Deterministic Dependency Parser with Dynamic Programming for Sanskrit Amba Kulkarni, 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Prague, Aug 27-30, 2013 aclweb
  47. Parsing Sanskrit texts: Some relation specific issues Amba Kulkarni and K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu, 5th international SCLS 2013, Mumbai presentation
  48. Clues from Astadhyayi for compound identification Amba Kulkarni and Anil Kumar, 5th international SCLS 2013, Mumbai
  49. Comparative study of Paniniya Dhatuvrttis N. Shailaja and Amba Kulkarni, 5th international SCLS 2013, Mumbai
  50. Telugu Spell-Checker, G Uma Maheshwar Rao, Amba Kulkarni, ChristopherM and Parameshwari K, in Vaagartha Ed. Shivaram Padikkal and Tariq Khan. Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 2012
  51. Discourse Analysis of Sanskrit Texts Amba Kulkarni and Monali Das, Workshop on Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects, 24th COLING, 2012, Mumbai Available for download at aclweb
  52. Semantic Processing of Compounds in Indian Languages Amba Kulkarni, Soma Paul, Malhar Kulkarni, Anil Kumar, Nitesh Surtani, 24th COLING, 2012, Mumbai. Available for download at aclweb
  53. A distributed platform for Sanskrit Processing Pawan Goyal, Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni, Peter Scharf and Ralph Bunker, 24th COLING, 2012, Mumbai. Available for download at aclweb
  54. 'Subject' in English is abhihita Akshar Bharati and Amba Kulkarni, in Studies in Sanskrit Grammars (Proceedings of the Vyakarana Section of the 14th World Sanskrit Conference). Ed. George Cardona, Ashok Aklujkar, and Hideyo Ogawa. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. 2011
  55. Statistical Constituency parser for Sanskrit compounds Amba Kulkarni and Anil Kumar, ICON 2011, Chennai Dec 18-19
  56. Agreement in Hindi Conjunct Verbs Amba Kulkarni, ICON 2011, Chennai Dec 18-19
  57. Telugu Morphological Analyser Uma Maheshwar Rao, G., Amba P. Kulkarni, Christopher M., International Telugu Internet Conference Proceedings, Milpitas, California, USA, 28th - 30th September, 2011.
  58. Telugu Spell Checker Uma Maheshwar Rao, G., Amba P. Kulkarni, Christopher M. Parameshwari K., International Telugu Internet Conference Proceedings, Milpitas, California, USA, 28th - 30th September, 2011.
  59. Information Coding in a Language: Some Insights from Paninian Grammar Akshar Bharati and Amba Kulkarni in Dhiimahi, Journal of Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan, vol. I, Number 1, pp:77-91, Ed: Dilip Rana, Jan 2010
  60. Designing a Constraint Based Parser for Sanskrit Amba Kulkarni, Sheetal Pokar, and Devanand Shukl In Proceedings of the International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer, 2010. Sanskrit version
  61. Sanskrit Compound Processor Anil Kumar, Vipul Mittal and Amba Kulkarni In Proceedings of the International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer, 2010. Sanskrit version
  62. The Knowledge Structure in Amarako'sa Sivaja S. Nair and Amba Kulkarni In Proceedings of the International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer, 2010. Sanskrit version
  63. Vibhakti Divergence between Sanskrit and Hindi Preeti Shukla, Devanand Shukl and Amba Kulkarni In Proceedings of the International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, Springer, 2010. Sanskrit version
  64. ANUSAARAKA: AN APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION Sriram Chaudhuary, Dipti Misra Sharma and Amba Kulkarni in the Proceedings of the International Conference on "Language, Society and Culture in Asian Context" at MSU, Thailand 6-7 January, 2010
  65. Sanskrit Morphological Analyser: Some Issues Amba Kulkarni and Devanand Shukl, in the Festscrift volume of Bh. Krishnamoorty, Indian Linguistics, Vol 70, Nos 1-4, Dec 15, 2009
  66. Sanskrit Compound Paraphrase Generator Anil Kumar, V. SheebaSudheer and Amba Kulkarni, in the proceedings of ICON 2009; 7th international Conference on NLP, Dec 15-17, 2009
    67. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics symposium 1-2: Springer Verlag LNCS 5402 , pages 139-161 G Huet, A Kulkarni and P Scharf (eds), Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Symposium, March 2009.
  67. Urdu-Hindi-Urdu Machine Translation: Some problems: Amba Kulkarni, Rahmat Yousuf Zai, and Parvez Ahmad, To appear in the proceedings of Conference on Language and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, 22-24 Jan, 2009
  68. English from Hindi viewpoint: A Paaninian perspective
    Presented at the Platinum Jubilee Conference of Linguistic Sociey of India, 6-8 Dec, 2005,at CALTS, University of Hyderabad, India; appeared in Papers on Language Technology; Eds: Panchanan Mohanty and S. Arul Mozi, Dravidian University, Kuppam University,2008
  69. Use of Amarakosha and Hindi wordnet in building a Network of Sanskrit Words: Akshar Bharati, Amba Kulkarni and Shivaja Nair, in the proceedings of ICON 2008; 6th international Conference on NLP, Dec 20-22 2008.
  70. Computer Simulation of Ashtadhyayi: Some insights, Second International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, 15th - 17th May 2008, Brown University, USA
  71. Devanagari lipi Ora sanganaka (in Hindi) Bahuvacana, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishva vidyalaya, Wardha, vol 16, April-June 2007, pp:163-169
  72. Recursion and Combinatorial Mathematics in Chandashaastra Available in an open access library at http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703658v2.
  73. English Parsers: Some Information based observations presented at workshop on MRCS-07, at 20th IJCAI, Hyderabad, 7th January 2007 Presentation
  74. English grammar from Hindi speaker's point of view in the light of Paaninian grammar
    Theme paper at a 3 day Symposium on English Grammar from Paaninian Perspective, 7-9 November, 2005, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, India; appeared in English Grammar from Paninian Perspective, Ed: S Satyanarayan Murty, R J Ramasree, Srinivasa Varakhedi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham, Tirupati, 2007
  75. Design and Architecture of anusAraka: An Approach to Machine Translation
    Satyam Techical Review vol 3, Oct 2003
  76. AnnCorra : Building Tree-banks in Indian Languages
    3rd Workshop on Asian Langugae Resources and International Standardization, Coling 2002 aclweb
  77. Machine translation activities in India: A survey
    In proceedings of workshop on survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries, Thailand, May 13-14, 2002
  78. LERIL: Collaborative Effort for Creating Lexical Resources
    In Proc. of Workshop on Language Resources in Asian Languages, together with 6th NLP Pacific Rim Symposium, Tokyo, 30 Nov 2001.
  79. Anusaaraka: Overcoming the Language Barrier in India
    In Anuvaad, Sage Publishers, New Delhi, 2000.
  80. Language Access: An Information Based Approach
    Knowledge-Based Computer Systems, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, Dec. 2000.
  81. Generating Converters between Fonts Semi-Automatically
    Proceedings of SAARC Conference on Multi-lingual and Multi Media Information Technology, CDAC, Jan 1998
  82. Akshar Bharati, Amba P. Kulkarni and Vineet Chaitanya, "Challenges in Developing Word Analyzers for Indian Languages", IIT Kanpur, CNLP, 1996, TRCNLP-96-xx, July, (Presented at Int. Summer Institute in Morphology, 3 July 1996, CIEFL, Hyderabad.)
  83. G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Amba P. Kulkarni, "Materials for a Computational Grammar of Telugu", IIT Kanpur, CNLP, 1996, TRCNLP-96-xx, June, Presented at 2nd Int. Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics, 23-24 June 1996, Kuppam. Organizer: Int. School of Dravidian Linguistics.
  84. Akshar Bharati, Amba P. Kulkarni and Vineet Chaitanya, "New Challenges in Automatic Translation from an Indian Perspective", IIT Kanpur, CNLP, 1996, TRCNLP-96-xx, June, Presented at 2nd Int. Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics, 23-24 June 1996, Kuppam. Organizer: Int. School of Dravidian Linguistics.
  85. Bharati, Akshar, Amba P. Kulkarni and Vineet Chaitanya, "Navya-Nyaya for Scientists and Technologists: A First Step", Dept. of CSE, IIT Kanpur, 1995c, TRCS-95-239, January, (For Theoretical Sciences in the Indian Tradition.)
Ph.D. Thesis:
M.Tech. Thesis:
Books:
  1. Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities, selected papers presented at the 18th World Sanskrit Conference, Canberra, Eds. Amba Kulkarni and Oliver Hellwig, ACL Anthology, USA. pdf
  2. Sanskrit Parsing based on the theories of Shabdabodha, D. K. PrintWorld and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, August 2019
  3. Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities, selected papers presented at the 17th world Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, Eds. Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni, D. K. Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd., July 2018. Available online
  4. 'Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics' ed by Amba Kulkarni, Select papers presented at 16th WSC, Bangkok, Thailand Ed Amba Kulkarni, D K Publishers, 2016 Cover
  5. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics symposium 1-2: Springer Verlag LNCS 5402 G Huet, A Kulkarni and P Scharf (eds), Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Symposium, 2009. Cover Access Content
  6. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics symposium 3: Springer Verlag LNCS 5406 A Kulkarni, G Huet (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium, Jan 15 - 17, 2009, Hyderabad Access Contents
  7. Co-Editor(with G Uma Maheshwar Rao) : Machine Translation:Course Material for Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications in Indian Languages, Center for Distance Education, University of Hyderabad, June 2008
  8. Co-Editor(with G Uma Maheshwar Rao) : Natural Language Modelling:Course Material for Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications in Indian Languages, Center for Distance Education, University of Hyderabad, Nov 2006
  9. Co-Editor (With Akshar Bharati, Vineet Chaitanya and Rajeev Sangal)anuvada ke upakarana: sanganaka tathA bhaashaae (Tools of Translation: Computer and Languages), University of Hyderabad, Center for Distance Education, Hyderabad, Feb 1998.
Projects/Collaborations:
  1. Principal investigator, "Samsaadhanii Praveshikaa: Learning Sanskrit using Computational Tools", IoE, University of Hyderabad (2023-24)
  2. Principal Investigator, "An integrated Digital Platform for Language Learning, Teaching, and Computational Linguistics", IoE, University of Hyderabad, (2 years)
  3. Principal Investigator, "Complex Verb Form Generator for Sanskrit", Central Sanskrit University, New Delhi, 2022-23 (1 year)
  4. Principal investigator, "Samsaadhanii Praveshikaa: Learning Sanskrit using Computational Tools", IoE, University of Hyderabad (2022-23)
  5. Principal Investigator, "Sanskrit Word Order following the steps of Target Language", Funded by IKS Division, AICTE, Ministry of Education,Government of India, 2021-23 (18 months).
  6. Member, Consortium project "Development of Language Resources for English-Hindi MT system: Improving End User's comprehension", Funded by TDIL-DeitY, Government of India, 2013-15.
  7. Project Partner in a project co-ordinated by Wiebke Petersen, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany on 'A qualitative analysis of phonological descriptive techniques and a comparison of Panini's pratyaharas and phonological features' (2011-13)
  8. Joint Collaboration with Peter Scharf, Brown University, USA for the execution of the project "Enhancing Access to Primary Cultural Heritage Materials of India," (National Endowment for Humanities grant award number PW-50408-09)
  9. DAAD-UGC project based personnel exchange programme with Oliver Hellwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany on "Advanced research in the computational processing of Sanskrit with special focus on word Sense Disambiguation" (April 2011 - March 2013)
  10. Joint Collaboration with Gerard Huet INRIA, France on the issues of interoperability of Sanskrit computational tools (Jan 2010 - Dec 2012)
  11. Development of tagged corpora for Sanskrit, sponsored by CIIL, Mysore under the LDCIL, (Apr 2008 - Mar 2009)
  12. Consortium Leader for the project on Development of Sanskrit Computational Tools and Sanskrit-Hindi Machine Translation System, sponsored by Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India, Delhi, (Apr 2008 - Mar 2011)
  13. Co-ordinator for English-Hindi anusaaraka project, in collaboration with Chinmaya International Foundation and IIIT, Hyderabad (Sept 2007-Aug 2010)
  14. Joint Collaboration with Gerard Huet INRIA, France on the issues of interoperability of Sanskrit computational tools (Jan 2007 - Dec 2009)
  15. Language Co-ordinator for IL-IL MT project (Urdu-Hindi pair), Ministry of IT,Governmnet of India, Delhi (Sept 2006 - Aug 2008 - extension1: Feb 2009 - Extension2: Aug 2009)
Websites:
Talks
Softwares Developed:
Academic and Administrative Engagements:
Courses Taught:
Designed the syllabus and courses
for the following innovative programs
Symposium/Workshops Organised
  1. A 1-day workshop on 'Sanskrit Sanganakiiya samsaadhana' at the Sanskrit Sahityotsvava at Ujjaina on 23rd Feb 2013
  2. Chair, 2 day Colloquium to mark the 25 years of NLP research in India with Paninian Perspective, 2nd - 3rd Aug, 2012
  3. Co-Chair, Second Workshop on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, CIF shodha Sansthan, Velianad, Kerala, 22nd - 27th Dec. 2011
  4. Co-Chair, Workshop on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Pune University, Dec 2010.
  5. Chair, First Workshop on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Univ of Hyderabada, Dec 2009.
  6. Co-chair: Third International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, at Hyderabad, 15th Jan - 17th Jan 2009
  7. Lecture Series on 'Asiddhavat section in Ashtadhyayi', 12th Sept - 15th Sept 2008,Univ of Hyderabad
  8. Lecture Series on 'Structure of Ashtadhyaayi', 17th Dec - 22nd Dec 2007,Univ of Hyderabad
  9. Co-chair: First International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, at Paris, 29th Oct - 31st Oct, 2007
  10. National Workshop on 'Parsing English: A Paninian View', Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, 13th Nov 2006-18th Nov 2006 (NLPAI activity)
  11. National workshop on 'Sanskrit and Computers' at Sri Shankaracharya Univ of Sanskrit, Kaladi, from Feb 27- 2nd March, 2006
  12. Workshop on 'CL and NLP: Developing Gujarati Morphological Analyser', 2006 Feb, MSU, Baroda
  13. National Symposium on 'English Grammar in the light of Paaninian viewpoint' Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, Nov 7-9, 2005
  14. National workshop on 'introduction of CL and NLP', 2004 Jan, MSU, Baroda
  15. National Workshop on 'Word Sense Disambiguation' (2002) with support from University of Brighton, UK (Adam Kilgariff)
  16. NLP training for teachers (2002) with support from DOE, Gov of India, Delhi
Panel Discussions
Tutorials Offered
Resource person
  1. Instructional Course on Indian Sciences, K V Sharma Memorial, NOv-dec 2019
  2. Lectures at Teacher's Training Programme at OU, July 2013
  3. Lectures at Teacher's Training Programme at BHU, Varanasi, March 2013
  4. A bridge between Indian Logic and Western Logic: A series of 4 talks at the Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Navya Nyaya at Cinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sanstha, Velianad, Kerala, August 2012
  5. NLP Training program for university Teachers at Shri Shankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, 9th - 12th May, 2011
  6. Lectures at Workshop on Panini and Tolkapium, Madras University, Chennai, 23rd Dec 2010
  7. Lectures at Translator's Workshop: University of Hyderabad, Sept 2010
  8. Training program for LDCIL, CIIL, Mysore, 28th - 30th May, 2008
  9. Lecture at ESWARA, IIIT, Hyderabad, March 2010
  10. One week Advanced workshop on NLP, Dravidian University, Kuppam, 20-21 March, 2008
  11. North East Winter School on Linguistics, NEHU, Shillong, 2-4 Feb 2008
  12. 21 day Teachers Training Program for Sanskrit Teachers, Madras University,Chennai, 16th Feb 2008
  13. 21 day Teachers Training Program for Sanskrit Teachers, Sanskrit Akademy,Meerut, April 2007
  14. 2 day National workshop on 'Word Sense Disambiguation' organised by CALTS, 18,19th March, 2007
  15. 7 day National workshop in 'Navya Nyaya and AI Initiatives' organised by Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 25th October - 31st October, 2006
  16. 1 month training program for Sanskrit teachers (2001) at IIIT Hyderabad
  17. several 5 week training programs for college teachers on NLP (1991-1995) conducted by IIT Kanpur.
Reviewer: Conferences / Journals
Conferences
Honors and Membership
Students
  1. M.Tech.:
    1. Vinish Jain
      Sanskrit-English Anusaaraka: Morphological Analyzer and Dictionary Component (Feb 2004), IIIT, Hyderabad
  2. M.A in NLP:
      T. Ramamani (2005-06) Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati
  3. M.S. (by research) in Computer Science:
    1. Himanshu Garg
      'Overcoming the font and script Barriers among Indian Languages' (March 2006), IIIT, Hyderabad, India
    2. Vipul Mittal
      `Developing Sanskrit Segmentizer' (2009-)(discontinued)
  4. M.Phil.:
    1. Chinmaya Dharurkar, Undefined Terms in Panini (2007, UoHyd)(co-guide)
    2. Vijay Kumar Patil (2008, MGIHU, Wardha)(co-guide)
    3. N Shailaja, Parser for Sanskrit (2009, UoHyd)
    4. Preeti Patel, Vibhakti Divergences between Sanskrit and Hindi (2010, UoHyd)
    5. Monali Das, Kaaraka Analysis of Sankshepa Ramayanam (2011, UoHyd)
    6. K. Surendra, Computational Analysis of 15th and 16th sargas of SundarKanda (2011, UoHyd)(co-guide)
    7. V V R Avinash Kumar, Linguistic Analysis of Mitralaabha of Hitopadesha (2014, UoHyd)
  5. Ph.D.:
    1. V Sheeba Computational Analysis of BalakAnda (2005, kerala)(co-guide)
    2. Sivaja Nair: Amarako'{s}a - A Net of Sanskrit Words Thesis (2011, UoHyd)
    3. Anil Kumar Gupta: Sanskrit Compound Processor Thesis (2012, UoHyd)
    4. N Shailaja: Comparison of Paniniya Dhatuv.rttis Thesis (2014, UoHyd)
    5. Usha S: Kaaraka analysis of Sanskrit Dhatus (2015,RSVP, Tirupati) (co-guide)
    6. Preeti Shukla: E-Teaching Capsule for Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita Thesis (2019, UoHyd)
    7. Monali Das: Discourse Analysis of sanskrit texts: first attempt towards computational processing Thesis (2017, UoHyd)
    8. Pavankumar Satuluri : Sanskrit compound word generator Thesis (2016,UoHyd)
    9. Arjuna S. R. : Computational Analysis and Graphical Representation of Navya-Nyāya Expressions - Nyāyacitradīpikā Thesis (2017, UoHyd)
    10. Sanjeev Panchal: Modeling Ākāṇkṣā following Pāṇinian grammar for Sanskrit Sentential Parsing Thesis (2020)
    11. Madhusoodan : Sanskrit Sentence Generator: A prototype Thesis (2020)
    12. Anilkumar Sanmukh: Study of Aṣṭādhyāyi(ongoing)
    13. Malay Maity: Disambiguation (ongoing)
    14. Sanal Vikram: Analysis of Sanskrit Verses (ongoing)
    15. Amruta Malawade: Skt-Hnd MT (Ongoing)
    16. Sriram K : Analysis of Sanskrit Compounds (Ongoing)
    17. Amruta Barbadikar: Computational Analysis of Alaṇkāra (Ongoing)
    18. Saee Vaze: Discourse Analysis: Question Answering (Ongoing)
    19. Dhaval Patel: Computational Lexicon (Ongoing)
Post Doctoral Fellow
  • Shailaja N , Meaning analysis of P{\=a}\d{n}iniya Dh{\=a}tus (2015-18) (UGC; Dr S Radhakrishna Post Doctoral fellowship)
  • Anupama Ryali , Computational Analysis of Śiśupālavadha of Māgha (Pūrvārdha)(2013-18) (UGC; Women Fellowship Scheme)
    • Co-Authors
    1. Akshar Bharati
    2. Arpita Batra
    3. Amruta Barbadikar
    4. Anil kumar
    5. Arjuna S.R.
    6. Christopher M
    7. Devanad Shukl
    8. Dipti Misra Sharma
    9. Durgesh D Rao
    10. G Uma Maheshwar Rao
    11. Gérard Huet
    12. K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu
    13. Laxmidhar Behra
    14. Malhar Kulkarni
    15. Malay Maity
    16. Monali Das
    17. Nitesh Surtani
    18. Parameshwari K
    19. Parvez Ahmad
    20. Pavankumar Satuluri
    21. Pawan Goyal
    22. Peter Scharf
    23. Preeti Shukla
    24. Preeti Swain
    25. Rahmat Yousufzai
    26. Rajeev Sangal
    27. Ralph Bunker
    28. Sanal Vikram
    29. Sanjeev Panchal
    30. Sheetal Pokar
    31. Shailaja N
    32. Sivaja Nair
    33. Soma Paul
    34. Sriram Chaudhury
    35. Sriram K
    36. Vineet Chaitanya
    37. Vipul Mittal
    38. V Sheeba
    Personal

    Amba Pradeep Kulkarni (maiden name Amba PadmanabhaRao Anantpur; more popularly known as Amba Rao -- daughter of A. B. P. Rao -- than Amba Anantpur) was born on 5th March 1961 at Patna (Bihar), India, married to Pradeep Kulkarni and has twin sons Achyut and Kedar. She was brought up in Maharashtra, with her younger siblings Suresh, Meena and Jaya(va)nt. She had her earlier school education in Marathi at Saraswati High School, and later at Siddheswar High school. Though not topper, she always used to be among the first 5 students in the class. She always had good estimate about her performance in the examinations. At the 10th public examination she stood 4th in the Solapur city securing 83% marks(as per her estimate).

    In 1970s girls were taking education, and also thinking of carreer. Being in Maharashtra, which is forward in many aspects, was an added advantage. Amba was fortunate to have an educational atmosphere at home. Her mother though herself not educated much, valued education, knew importance of education and hence always encouraged her children (especially daughters) in all possible ways to persue higher education. Her grandmother was a model for Amba, who in 1930s stood 1st and secured a gold medal in the public examination.

    She got admission to both Medicine as well as Engineering, but decided to go for higher studies in Mathematics. She did her graduation (B.Sc. in mathematics securing 91% marks -- unprecedential performance in the history of Shivaji University. The second rank holder got only 82% marks. She continued with her higher studies at Shivaji University completing her Masters in mathematics in 1982, with Prof. L Radhakrishna and Prof. Kumbhojkar. 1978-1982 was the golden period of her studentship, during which time she topped in all her endavours - be in studies, music, essay competitions.

    In 1979, she got 2nd prize in an Essay competition, organised by TIFR to celebrate the Birth Anniversery of Einstein. She also delivered a talk on All India Radio.

    In 1990 she married to Pradeep Kulkarni, who had an untimely death in 2007. He and his parents valued education and supported Amba for her higher studies. He not only supported her but even encouraged her to take up a job of Research Scientist at IIT Kanpur, and to work under Prof. Vineet Chaitanya and Prof. Rajeev Sangal, even though it meant a separation for him from his family. It is only because of in-laws support she could pursue her higher studies M.Tech. (1992-1994) at no less than a premier institute of education in Computer Science in India -- at I.I.T. Kanpur. She got her Ph.D. in 2010 from University of Hyderabad. The degree is in the field of Applied Linguistics, under the guidance of her friend and colleague Prof. G Uma Maheshwar Rao. Recently in 2012 she got her M.A. in Sanskrit from the Karnataka State Open University at Mysore. She was awarded a Vishishta Sanskrit Sevavrati Sammaan by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi in August 2015. On th 10th of Nov the Vice President of India Sri Venkaiah Naidu cites from the book she edited with Prof Gérard Huet and Peter Scharf. at 13.13 here

    Recently she was interviewed on Vārtāvalī - a Sanskrit News Bulletin on Doordarshan . A few years ago she gave an interview to the most popular educational portal brainbuxa .

    Persons from whom she had informal educative lessons
    There are many many others, from whom she learnt small neverthless important lessons of her life, ranging from servants to the nurses in hospitals, to strangers whom she met only once in life.

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