Teaching and Research

A corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a specific language territory.

Polysemy is the association of one word with two or more distinct meanings. A polyseme is a word or phrase with multiple meanings. Adjective: polysemous or polysemic.

Synset, is a group of data elements that are considered semantically equivalent for the purposes of information retrieval. A synset or synonym set is defined as a set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.

A bibliography is a list of books, articles, and other sources you use when researching a topic and writing a paper.

Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty in which students get others to complete their coursework for them by putting it out to tender.

A diorama is a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit. The word diorama can either refer to a 19th-century mobile theatre device or in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum. Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies such as military vehicle modeling, miniature figure modeling, or aircraft modeling.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is the apex body for curriculum related matters for school education in India.

The National Policy on Education (NPE) is a policy formulated by the Government of India to promote education amongst India's people. The policy covers elementary education to colleges in both rural and urban India. The first NPE was promulgated in 1968 by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

China has the largest higher education system in the world.

National Translation Mission (NTM) is a Government of India initiative to make knowledge texts accessible in all Indian languages listed in the VIII schedule of the Constitution, through translation. NTM was set up as per National Knowledge Commission's recommendation. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has designated Central Institute of Indian Languages as the nodal organization for the operationalization of NTM.