Research output per year
Research output per year
University Lecturer, English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Docent, University of Turku
Research activity per year
I am a linguist, specializing in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and lexicography. My research primarily concentrates on topics in discourse and pragmatics, such as discourse relations (i.e., relations between propositions or speech acts) and discourse signals (e.g., discourse connective if for Condition relations). In my PhD dissertation, I investigated how discourse relations are indicated by a wide variety of signals (such as lexical, semantic, syntactic, and genre features, in addition to discourse connectives). The project also produced a corpus of discourse signals, called the RST Signalling Corpus. In the past, I worked in areas such as sentiment analysis, discourse parsing and lexicography (bilingual and multilingual dictionaries). Furthermore, I contributed to compiling both encyclopaedic and discipline-specific bilingual dictionaries. More recently, I have worked on developing NLP resources such as lexicons of discourse connectives in English and Bangla. Presently, I and my colleague Dr. Markus Egg are investigating the role of continuity or discontinuity (along dimensions like time, space, action, modality, or speech act) in the interpretation discourse relations.
Topics of interests
Docent, University of Turku
Award Date: 26 Feb 2025
PhD, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
2009 → 2014
Master, Linguistics, University of Calcutta
2004 → 2007
Bachelor, English, University of Calcutta
2000 → 2004
Postdoc, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1 Aug 2018 → 28 Feb 2023
Postdoc, University of Potsdam
1 Oct 2016 → 31 Dec 2018
Teaching/Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University
1 Sept 2009 → 31 Dec 2014
Researcher, The Asiatic Society
1 Jan 2009 → 31 Jul 2009
Researcher, University of Calcutta
1 Aug 2007 → 31 Dec 2008
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Published conference proceeding › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Published conference proceeding › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Das, D. (Creator) & Egg, M. (Creator), Linguistics Data Consortium, 15 Oct 2024
DOI: 10.35111/jfbf-gn90
Dataset
Das, D. (Creator), Scheffler, T. (Creator), Bourgonje, P. (Creator) & Stede, M. (Creator), University of Potsdam, 1 Jan 2018
Dataset
Das, D. (Creator), Taboada, M. (Creator) & McFetridge, P. (Creator), Linguistics Data Consortium, 15 Jun 2015
DOI: 10.35111/5sm9-m096, https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2015T10
Dataset
Das, D. (Creator), Ghosh, S. S. (Creator) & Chatterjee, L. (Creator), University of Potsdam, 1 Jan 2018
Dataset
Czerniak, I. (Speaker) & Das, D. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation