[INDOLOGY] CFP - 9th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (9th ISCLS), Deccan College - Pune, 20-22 January 2027

[Arjuna S R]

Dear all,
Namaste.

Apologies for the cross-postings!
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*9th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (9th
ISCLS)Deccan College, Pune, India*



*20-22 January, 2027https://iscls.github.io/ <https://iscls.github.io/>*
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*Call For Papers*
Full papers are invited for original, unpublished research on various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:* October 20, 2026*
Notification of Acceptance:* November 30, 2026*
Camera Ready Submissions: *December 15, 2026*

Please submit at the following website:
*https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISCLS2027
<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISCLS2027>*

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 formatting files listed on the website and
follow the instructions provided there.
Usage of Generative AI tools is limited only to paraphrasing and
formatting. It must be clearly acknowledged.

In addition to full papers, a separate demonstrations and poster track will
accept submissions.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
*Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: *with Extensions to Related Ancient
Indian Languages
* (Vedic, Pali, Prakrit, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc.)*

   -     Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
   -     Computational phonology and morphology
   -     Syntactic analysis
   -     Prose order normalisation
   -     Parsing
   -     Discourse analysis
   -     Structural semantics
   -     Machine translation
   -     Automatic analysis of the Sanskrit corpus
   -     Navya-Nyāya and other technical language processing
   -     Information extraction
   -     Named entity recognition
   -     Computer modelling and simulation of traditional grammars
   -     Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing
   -     Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
   -     Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sanskrit
   -     Language models for Sanskrit




*Digital Humanities and Corpus 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 phylogenic 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-     Tools and applications for Sanskrit
dissemination**Program Committee Chair*: Brendan Gillon, Arnab Bhattacharya
*Organising Chair*: Prasad Joshi
*Demonstrations and Publicity Chair*: Arjuna S R
*Web and Publications Chair*: Hrishikesh Terdalkar

*Steering Committee*:
Amba Kulkarni, IIT Hyderabad
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur
Brendan Gillon, McGill University
Gérard Huet, INRIA Paris
Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Peter Scharf, The Sanskrit Library

*Previous Editions*:
IIT Roorkee, India (2026)
Auroville, Puducherry, India (2024)
IIT Kharagpur, India (2019)
IIT Bombay, India (2013)
JNU, Delhi, India (2010)
University of Hyderabad, India (2009)
Brown University, Providence, USA (2008)
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007)

Please visit the website - https://iscls.github.io/ for more details.

We encourage you to share this information with scholars, researchers,
faculty members, research scholars, and students.
Thank you.

Best,
Arjuna
Demonstrations and Publicity Chair
ISCLS-2027

Dr Arjuna S R

*Assistant Registrar - Academics*

Manipal Academy of Higher Education <https://manipal.edu/> (MAHE)
(Institution of Eminence), Bengaluru Campus
&

*Assistant Professor - Senior Scale*

Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
<https://manipal.edu/mu/campuses/mahe-bengaluru/academics/institution-list/dlhs.html>
 (MILHS)
*Coordinator - Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH)*

*Co-Investigator* - Sanskrit Knowledge Accessor
<https://ska-mahe-blr.github.io> (a MeitY-funded research project)

*Principal Investigator* - *Mahattara *- MAHE-Tara Prakashana collaborative
project

Govindapura, Yelahanka, Bengaluru,

Karnataka, India - 560063
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Email: arjuna.sr at manipal.edu; srarjunaa at gmail.com

Office: 080-24497090; Extn: 7090
Mobile:  +91-8106783000
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