Apologies for  cross posting.

Second Call for participation  in the workshop
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Registration URL: http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/icon2016/registration/
Accommodation URL: http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/icon2016/accomodation.php

Workshop webpage: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/resgrp/cnerg/sclws/

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About the workshop

Several platforms of computational linguistics have been developed for Sanskrit. There are in-house efforts to use these computational linguistic tools for semi-automatic annotation of the Sanskrit corpus at various levels such as annotation of inflectional and derivational morphology, annotation of kāraka roles, and linking the stems with various digital lexica. These tasks are being carried out mostly semi-automatically involving a human supervision, or with a user interface for appropriate selection. Several Digital Sanskrit libraries are being developed. However, there is no present consensus on interoperability between the ones and the others, such as inter-translatable annotation of corpus. Moreover, for want of a common platform, there is very little communication among the researchers involved in the digital libraries and the computational linguists.

OBJECTIVE

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for the various researchers involved in such efforts, in view of increasing cooperation in this area. The workshop would welcome participants both from the computational linguistics side and from the philology side, as well as traditional pandits interested in computer usage. This forum would provide a platform to discuss on the interoperability between the two platforms, such as inter-translatable annotation of corpus, development of proper user interfaces etc. facilitating bridging the gap between the two efforts.


THE WORKSHOP INVITES SUBMISSION IN THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOP TOPICS.

Corpus Management
  -Sanskrit digital libraries formats
  -Versioning of digital libraries
  -Quality control of corpus acquisition, traceability of annotation
  -Incremental annotation and version control
  -Distribution and replication issues of digital libraries

Textual Representation
  -Format of metadata, line numbering
  -Lexical conventions concerning sandhi, avagraha, punctuation,
   quotations explicitation
  -Representation of ambiguities, śleṣa explicitation, notation for variants
  -Technical issues in computer encodings of Sanskrit

Annotations
  -Morphological tags for Sanskrit
  -Semantic roles tagging (kāraka/ākāṅkṣā)
  -Annotation training
  -Discourse tagging, anaphoric references explicitation
  -Meter recognition
  -Statistical methods for annotation automation.

Digital Lexicon
  -Alignment of digital lexicons
  -Root concordances / Dhātupātha formalisation


THE WORKSHOP ACCEPTS SUBMISSION OF THE FOLLOWING TYPES

Regular papers (6-8 pages)
System Demonstrations (2-3 pages)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

The papers should be written either in English or in Sanskrit. Papers written in any other language will be rejected without any review. The authors must submit their papers before the deadline (1st November, anywhere in the world) by sending an email to icon2016workshop@gmail.com.
For demonstration papers, the authors are advised to give a link to their system, if accessible online, or provide some snapshots as appendix. Authors can use any number of pages for this appendix.

Important Dates:

First Call for Papers: September 26th, 2016
Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2016
Acceptance Notification: November 15th, 2016
Workshop: December 18th, 2016
INVITED SPEAKERS

PROF. GOPABANDHU MISHRA
Head, Department of Sahitya,
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY,
Varanasi


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Amba Kulkarni, IIAS, Shimla
Gérard Huet, Inria, Paris
Srinivas Varakhedi, KSU, Bangalore
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Oliver Hellwig, Germany
Gérard Huet, Inria, Paris
Amba Kulkarni, IIAS, Shimla
Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Dhaval Patel, Gujarat
Peter Scharf, Sanskrit Library, USA
Rajaram Shukla, BHU, Varanasi
Lalit Kumar Tripathi, RSkS, Allahabad
Srinivas Varakhedi, KSU, Bangalore

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