About
Muhammad Shoaib Tahir
Applied linguist working in corpus and computational linguistics, teaching at university level in Pakistan and building language resources for Punjabi.
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Corpus linguistics
Corpus design, concordancing, frequency, collocation, keyness and the statistics behind them.
Computational linguistics
Text processing, tagging, morphology, WordNet and practical NLP for linguists.
Study resources
MCQ practice papers, analysis tools and teaching material, free to use.
A short profile
I hold an M.Phil. in Applied Linguistics from Government College University, Faisalabad, where my thesis developed a Punjabi synset using an expansion approach from English WordNet.
I currently teach Computational Linguistics as a visiting lecturer at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, and have taught Corpus Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax and Computer Assisted Language Learning at Government College University Faisalabad, the University of Education, and the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Before that I worked as a research assistant on an HEC-NRPU project developing linguistic tools for Shahmukhi Punjabi — work that continues in the projects below.
At a glance
Projects and writing
Language resource projects
- Punjabi POS tagger
- Punjabi WordNet
- Morphological analyser for Punjabi
- Rule-based stemmer for Punjabi
Selected publications
- Morphological Description of Nouns in Shahmukhi Punjabi: A Corpus Based Study (2023)
- Developing Digital Resources of Shahmukhi Punjabi (2024)
- Mapping of English and Punjabi Verb Classes: A Corpus Based Study (2024)
Teaching and talks
Workshops and invited talks on corpus tools, statistics in corpus linguistics and Python for linguists, delivered at universities across Pakistan including NUST, NED, FAST, UMT, NUML and the Linguistic Association of Pakistan.