Ms. Farhat Abdullah

• M.Phil. (2012) Applied Linguistics      Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

• Masters (2000) Applied Linguistics      Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

• Graduation (1998) English Literature    University of the Punjab

• Inter–mediate Pre-medical               BISE, Lahore(1996)

• Matriculation Science                     BISE, Lahore(1994)

• June-July, 2016 Completed Collaborative Language Research Program CoLang 2016 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
• Feb-2013 to date Lecturer at  the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan http://www.ucp.edu.pk/
• Sept-2012 to Feb -2013 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Education Lahore, Pakistan http://ue.edu.pk/beta/
• September 2011- Feb2013 Research Assistant at the Centre for Language Engineering, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences. University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. http://www.cle.org.pk/
• August 2011-March  2012   Lecturer at Government Gulberg College for Women, Lahore.

Offered an award for conducting a workshop on “Developing Urdu WordNet” in Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12) UET Lahore which was attended by linguists from Germany (University of Konstanz,) and all over Pakistan

• Have been an editor of the Kinnaird Literary Society
• Member of Nazaria-I Pakistan Trust (www.nazariapak.info/)
• Member of The Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP) www.snlp.org.pk) and Linguistic Association of Pakistan (LAP)
• Independent  Member of International Federation of University Women (www.ifuw.org/)  (Global Women International now)
• Applied for the membership of Linguistic Society of America

Want to continue my research on semantic relations which is a specialized field of Linguistics.

• “Development of Urdu WordNet Using the Merge Approach”, is published in the peer review proceedings of Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12, UET, Lahore
• “The Use of E-Contents for Teaching Language Subjects” is published in the online proceedings of International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 (LLL 2013) 2-3 Dec, 2013, Grand Oriental Hotel, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• “Production, Delivery and Sharing of E-Contents: New Paradigm in Language Pedagogy” is submitted to the journal of  Linguistics and Language Teaching, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
• “A Comparative Study of Spoken English on Pakistani and Indian TV Channels” in the online proceedings of Second International Conference on Language, Literature & Community (LLLC2015). February 21-22, 2015. Bhubaneshwar,India.
• “Hyponymy Noun Hierarchies in Urdu WordNet” unpublished

• Travel Grant to Present a Paper, 2013 (source/sponsor: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan,  Amount: PKR 110,870/-
• Travel Grant to Present a Paper, 2016 (source/sponsor: Punjab Higher Education Commission of  Pakistan,  Amount: Around three lac Pakistani rupees/-

I have been a part of a research team at Center for language Engineering (UET) Lahore which developed “Urdu WordNet”, an electronic lexical database.

• Conducted a workshop on “Developing Urdu WordNet” in Conference on Language Technology 12  (CLT12)  UET Lahore which was attended by  linguists from Germany (University of Konstanz,) and  all over Pakistan

• A Paper, “Development of Urdu WordNet Using the Merge Approach”, is published in the proceedings of Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12) held at Center for Language Engineering ,UET Lahore, Pakistan http://www.cle.org.pk/research/papers.html
• Presented a research paper titled “The Use of E-Contents for Teaching Language Subjects” in the proceedings of International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 (LLL 2013) 2-3 Dec, 2013, Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://theicrd.org/Proceeding%20LLL%202013.pdf
• Presented a research article titled “Production, Delivery and Sharing of E-Contents: New Paradigm in Language Pedagogy” in 1st International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching, 25-26 November 2013, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. http://linguisticsconferenceiub.blogspot.com/p/tentative-detailed-programme-day-l_3030.html
• Presented a research paper titled “A Comparative Study of Spoken English on Pakistani and Indian TV Channels” in the proceedings of Second International Conference on Language, Literature & Community (LLLC2015). February 21-22,2015. Bhubaneshwar, http://www.languages3000.com/
• Presented a research paper titled “Hyponymy Noun Hierarchies in Urdu WordNet”  in 2^nd Kashmir International Conference on Linguistics, May 04-05, 2015. Muzaffarbad, Azad Kashmir. http://www.ajku.edu.pk/icl.php
• Presented a research paper titled “Use of Computational Analysis of the Borrowed Words for Translation Studies” in International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan, October 07–09, 2015. Kinnaird College, Lahore http://www.iclap.org/ICLAP2015/
• Presented a work titled “Construction of Hyponymy Relations in the Urdu WordNet”; furthermore, attended credited courses at CoLang2016 (alaska.edu/colang2016/), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA in (June20-July 01), 2016
• Conducted a workshop on “ Project Development” in the Faculty Development Program 2016 at University of Central Punjab