Dear all,
Namaste.
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9th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (9th ISCLS)
Deccan College, Pune, India
20-22 January, 2027
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Full papers are invited for original, unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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
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)
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