[INDOLOGY] 8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (ISCLS 2026): Call for Papers

[Pavankumar Satuluri]

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8th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (8th ISCLS)


IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India


9-11 March, 2026


https://iscls.github.io/


Convenors: Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee and Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur

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*Call for papers*

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FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various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.

*Important Dates:*

Submission Deadline: *Jan 15th, 2026*

Notification of Acceptance: *Feb 15th, 2026*

Camera Ready Version Due: *March 1st, 2026*


The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and should include the title,
abstract, and names and affiliations of all authors.  To prepare your
submission, please use the LaTeX source files listed on the website, and
follow the instructions provided there. The information related to the
submission portal will be updated soon on the website.


The proceedings would be published as a part of ACL Anthology under

https://aclanthology.org/venues/iscls/



*Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: with Extensions to Related Ancient*

*Indian Languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrit)*


  Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets

  Computational phonology and morphology

  Syntactic analysis

  Prose order normalisation

  Parsing

  Discourse analysis

  Structural semantics

  Machine translation

  Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus

  Processing of Sanskrit scientific, technical and philosophical texts

  Information extraction

  Named entity recognition

*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 and 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 phylogenetic studies, intertextuality management,
establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications

  OCR recognition of romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts

  Digital cataloguing of manuscripts

  Annotation and editing

  Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts)

  User interface design


*Miscellaneous Computer Applications Relevant to Sanskrit*


  Software tools for teaching Sanskrit

  Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis

  Tools and applications for Sanskrit dissemination

Creative generation (e.g., Sanskrit poetry)


Program Committee (confirmed)


Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad

Arjuna S R, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur

Hrishikesh Terdalkar, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad

Jivnesh Sandhan, Kyoto University

Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay

Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich

Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee

Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur

Sebastian Nehrdich, Tohoku University

Sriram K, IIIT Hyderabad

Tanuja P Ajotikar, The Sanskrit Library


Previous Editions:


INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007)

Brown University, Providence, USA (2008)

University of Hyderabad, India (2009)

JNU, Delhi, India (2010)

IIT Bombay, India (2013)

IIT Kharagpur, India (2019)

Auroville, Pondicherry (2024)
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Regards,
 Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur and Pavankumar Satuluri, IIT Roorkee
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