[INDOLOGY] World Sanskrit Conference 2018, Special Call for Papers: Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities

[Adheesh Sathaye]

** Special CALL for FULL PAPERS
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Section 19, Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities
17th World Sanskrit Conference
Vancouver, Canada • July 9-13, 2018
Convenors: Gérard Huet & Amba Kulkarni

Dear Colleagues,

FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc. Accepted papers are to be published in advance of the WSC 2018 meetings in July 2018, or soon thereafter.

Scholars interested in participating in Section 19 (Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities) should submit an abstract as usual through the submission portal (https://wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca/ocs/wsc/2018/schedConf/cfp) , but must also attach a complete paper as a PDF at step 3 of the process (“Upload Supplementary Files”). These manuscript submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee, as given below. To prepare your manuscript for submission and to procure the relevant LaTeX style files, you may download the WSC2018-Section 19 Support Package and follow the additional instructions given on the WSC2018 Section 19 Website (https://wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca/section-19/).

The deadline for submitting papers for consideration is OCTOBER 1, 2017. For further information and guidance, please email the WSC2018 Secretariat HERE (mailto:wsc2018 at ubcsanskrit.ca) .

The areas of interest for this section include, but are not limited to:
* Computational linguistics:
Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
Computational phonology and morphology
Syntactic analysis
Prose order normalisation
Parsing
Structural semantics
Machine Translation
Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus
Machine Learning approaches to computational processing
Navya Nyāya technical language processing and semantic analysis
Information extraction

* Shāstric Sanskrit texts and computation
Computer modeling and simulation of Paninian and other traditional grammars
Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing

* Sanskrit digital libraries management:
Tools for acquisition & maintenance of Sanskrit digital corpus
Library crawlers or search tools in Sanskrit corpus
Incorporation of grammatical information in Sanskrit corpus
Automated tools for evaluation of Sanskrit poetry, e.g., meter recognition/verification, alaṃkāra identification, śleṣa analysis
Software tools for phylogenic studies, intertextuality management, establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications
OCR recognition of ancient Indian scripts
Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
Digital font creation, rendering of phonetic features, etc.

* Misc computer applications relevant to Sanskrit:
Software tools for teaching Sanskrit
Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
Social media applications for Sanskrit dissemination

Programme Committee:

Tanuja Ajotikar (Belgavi, Karnataka)
Stefan Baums (University of Munich)
Yigal Bronner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)
Olivier Hellwig (Düsseldorf University)
Gérard Huet (Inria Paris), co-chair
Amba Kulkarni (IIAS Simla), co-chair
Pawan Kumar (Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad)
Girish Nath Jha (JNU, Delhi)
Andrew Ollett (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad)
Srinivasa Varakhedi (KSU, Bengaluru)

More information about Section 19, Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities, as well as specific package to help you prepare your full papers, can be found on the WSC2018 Section 19 Website (https://wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca/section-19/).
And as always, be sure to consult the official conference website, wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca, for the most up-to-date information.

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