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Anindita Basu

Anindita Basu

Information architect


Background


About

About

All for words; words for all.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Technical writer, editor, information architect, Software industry

    Mar, 2006 - Present

    • I do migrations, content strategy, and doc tools. I also mentor new writers. My interests include design thinking, information architecture, APIs, and DITA.

  • Officer, Government sector

    Apr, 1996 - Mar, 20069 years 10 months

    • Departmental work at various divisions of the note printing presses of the country's federal bank.

  • Editor, Publishing industry

    Feb, 1995 - Mar, 19961 year 2 months

    • Digests of tax cases related to corporate laws.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Writing technically

    Jul, 2022 - Present

    Work-focussed blog for a niche audience.

  • Indica APIs

    May, 2017 - Present

    Data from ancient India, presented as JSON dictionaries.

  • InkSlate

    Dec, 2025 - Present

    A Python-based handwriting analysis tool that uses Google Gemini multimodal AI to generate graphology-style personality insights from handwriting images.

Skills

Skills

  • Languages

    Python

    DITA

    Markdown

    reStructured Text

    HTML

    DocBook

  • SSGs

    MkDocs

    Jekyll

    Sphinx

  • Authoring tools

    Oxygen XML Editor

    IXIA CCMS

    Madcap Flare

    Arbortext Editor

Publications

Publications

  • A Phonological Plausibility Framework for Evaluating Unknown or Ambiguous Symbol Strings , Zenodo

    Published on: Feb 01, 2026

    This note proposes a neutral, falsification-oriented framework for evaluating how plausibly a given string of symbols could correspond to spoken language systems at the level of language families. Rather than attempting decipherment or semantic interpretation, the framework assesses phonological compatibility: the degree to which a symbol string can be accommodated by known phonological constraints with minimal distortion. The method is intended as an auxiliary tool for hypothesis testing in historical linguistics, undeciphered script studies, and comparative phonology.

  • A Constraint-Based Probe for Exploring Phonological Sound-Space Without Decipherment , Zenodo

    Published on: Feb 05, 2026

    This note describes an auxiliary, exploratory extension to a previously proposed phonological plausibility framework for evaluating unknown or ambiguous symbol strings. The extension introduces a phonological probe that generates broad sound-category constraints for structurally plausible symbol strings, while explicitly preventing phoneme assignment, lexical identification, or semantic interpretation. The probe operates by conditioning sound-category generation on phonological profiles, enforcing conservative phonotactic filters, and applying entropy-based failure detection to prevent overfitting. The method is falsification-oriented: its primary function is to rule out unsafe or unjustified sound hypotheses rather than to propose readings. Failure cases are treated as informative outcomes. This work is intended as a methodological demonstration for researchers in historical linguistics, undeciphered script studies, and comparative phonology, and makes no claims about any specific script or language. It extends the phonological plausibility framework described in Basu, A. (2026). A Phonological Plausibility Framework for Evaluating Unknown or Ambiguous Symbol Strings.

  • Knowledge Graph Schema , Zenodo

    Published on: Jan 06, 2026

    A lightweight, format-agnostic contract for expressing semantic relationships between content units. It enables graph-native Retrieval Augmented Generation, traceability, validation, and reasoning in enterprise documentation.

  • Method for extracting the click sequence from the UI source code and reusing for documentation , IBM

    Published on: Jul 05, 2012

    A disclosure for a method that pulls the UI text from product code and puts it automatically in the help content, while making it contextually correct. The disclosed method consists of traversing the source code in the UI mockup designer software to determine the click sequence. The determined click sequence is then referenced in the help document. Thus, all instances in the help document where these UI controls are mentioned are instances of auto-generated text, where the text in the help document is pulled (auto-generated) from the click sequence that is determined methodically by traversing the source code. The determined click sequences are identified by unique IDs.

Interests

Interests

  • Ancient history

  • Etymology