6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (6th ISCLS)

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India -- 721302

October 23-25, 2019

Website: https://iscls.github.io/

Convenor: Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur

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Call for papers (Deadline Extended to May 25th, 2019)

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FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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: May 25th, 2019 (Extended)

Notification of Acceptance: July 20th, 2019

Camera Ready Version Due: August 10th, 2019

You are requested to submit your research paper using the EasyChair Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=6thiscls. The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and will be reviewed by the program committee members, as listed below. To prepare your submission, please use the latex source files listed on the website, and follow the instructions provided there.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Sanskrit Computational linguistics: with extensions to related ancient Indian languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrits)

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 romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts

Digital cataloguing of manuscripts

Digital font creation, rendering of phonetic features, etc.

Encoding procedures and workflows

Presentation and transformation of TEI data

Named entity recognition

Collaborative annotation and editing

Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts)

User interface design

* Misc computer applications relevant to Sanskrit:

Software tools for teaching Sanskrit

Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis

Social media applications for Sanskrit dissemination

Programme Committee

Stefan Baums (University of Munich)

Laxmidhar Behera (IIT Kanpur)

Brendan Gillon (McGill University)

Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)

Olivier Hellwig (University of Zurich)

Gérard Huet (Inria Paris)

Amba Kulkarni (University of Hyderabad)

Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)

Girish Nath Jha (JNU, Delhi)

Andrew Ollett (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad)

Ganesh Ramakrishnan (IIT Bombay)

Pavan Kumar Satuluri (Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad)

Peter Scharf (IIIT Hyderabad)

Srinivasa Varakhedi (KKSU, Ramtek)

K Varalakshmi (Osmania University, Hyderabad)

Web Chair: Amrith Krishna, IIT Kharagpur

Previous Editions:

INRIA Paris Rocquencourt (2007),  Brown University, USA (2008), University of Hyderabad, India (2009), JNU, Delhi, India (2010) and IIT Bombay (2013)