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Dear list,

Due to Pandemic 18th World Sanskrit Conference is postponed and now will be held in Jan 2022. In view of this, the revised deadlines for section 19 Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities are as below

*Important Dates are:*

# Submission of full papers closes on: 31st March 2021
# Acceptance notification for full papers: 30th May 2021
# Camera Ready copy: 30th Sept 2021
# Proceedings for Publication: 30th Nov 2021

FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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 2022 meetings in January 2022, or soon thereafter in ACL Anthology.

Scholars interested in participating in Section 19 (Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities) should submit their manuscripts by email to sanskrit@kaigi.com.au with a copy to ambapradeep@gmail.com and hellwig7@gmx.de  with "Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities NEW SUBMISSION" in the subject line.

It is possible that some of you who have already submitted your manuscript may have advanced your work further and would like to revise your submission. If you would like to do this please email your submission to: sanskrit@kaigi.com.au

These manuscript submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee of the section. To prepare your manuscript for submission and to procure the relevant LaTeX style files, you may download the WSC2022 Section 19 Support Package and follow the additional instructions given on the WSC2022 Section 19 Website.
    

The deadline for submitting papers for consideration is March 31, 2021.

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

      o 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 NyÄya technical language processing and semantic analysis
          + Information extraction

      o Shāstric Sanskrit texts and computation
          + Computer modelling and simulation of Paninian and other
            traditional grammars
          + Theories of ÅšÄbdabodha 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, ala\ṃkāra identification,
            alaṃkāra analysis
          + Software tools for phylogenic studies, intertextuality
            management, the establishment of critical editions, and other
            philological applications
          + Stylometry and authorship attribution
          + OCR recognition of ancient Indian scripts
          + Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
          + Digital font creation, rendering of phonetic features, etc.

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

    *Programme Committee:*

      o Chairs:
          + Amba Kulkarni (University of Hyderabad)
          + Oliver Hellwig (University of Zurich)

      o Members:
          + Ivan Andrijanić (University of Zagreb)
          + Stefan Baums (University of Munich)
          + Arnab Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur)
          + Brendan Gillon (McGill University)
          + Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)
          + Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)
          + Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad)
          + Wiebke Petersen (University of Düsseldorf)
          + Pavan Kumar Satuluri (Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad)
          + Sai Susarla (MIT, Pune)
          + Peter Scharf (IIIT Hyderabad)
          + Srinivasa Varakhedi (KKSU, Ramtek)

        More information about Section 19, Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities, as well as the specific package to help you prepare your full papers, can be found on the WSC2022 Section 19 Website.


        The instructions for typesetting and the latex style files are available here for download.