Muhammad Ilyas Mahmood

Government College University, Faisalabad

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Muhammad Ilyas Mahmood is a linguist specializing in computational lexicography and the preservation of under-resourced languages, with a particular focus on Punjabi Shahmukhi. His research centers on developing lexical-semantic networks and WordNets for languages that lack extensive digital resources, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional linguistic analysis and modern natural language processing. Mahmood’s most cited work, “Analysis of Lecxico-Semantic Relations of Punjabi Shahmukhi Nouns: A Corpus Based Study” (2019), pioneers the systematic identification of semantic relations—such as synonymy, hyponymy, and meronymy—among Punjabi Shahmukhi nouns using a corpus-driven approach. This foundational study, which has garnered 5 citations, is a critical step toward constructing a comprehensive WordNet for Punjabi Shahmukhi, enabling applications in machine translation, information retrieval, and language education. By mapping the intricate semantic nets that organize noun meanings, Mahmood provides a replicable methodology for other low-resource languages. His work not only advances theoretical understanding of lexical semantics but also has practical implications for digital language preservation, making him a key contributor to the computational linguistics of South Asian languages.