Friday, 10th Dec, 2010

Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU

Saturda, January 9, 2010

0830 - 0930: Breakfast & Registration

0930 - 1130:  Session 1: Inaugural session

 

·         Dr. Girish Nath Jha, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, Welcome address, Seminar theme

·         Prof. Bal Ram Singh, University of  Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, Scientifying  the Sanskrit  vs. Sanskritizing the Science(inaugural address)

·         Prof. Ramanath Sharma, University of  Hawaii, USA, Rule interaction, blocking and derivation in PŒöini (Keynote speech)

·         Prof V. K. Jain, Registrar, JNU, Presidential address and release of seminar proceedings

·         Chairperson, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, Vote of Thanks

 

Observer: Dr Maureen P. Hall, University of Massachusetts. Dartmouth, USA

1130-1200: Tea

1200 - 1300 :  Session 2: Plenary Talk 1:

Chair:  Prof Bal Ram Singh, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

 

Speaker: Prof Saroja Bhate, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI)

Topic: Anubandhas of PΚini and Exegetics of Sanskrit grammar (to be read by Dr Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay)

 

Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Manji Bhadra, research student, JNU

1300-1400 : Lunch

1400-1600 : Session 3: Lexical Resources

Chair: Wiebke Peterson, Heinrich-Heine University, Germany

 

·    Abhinandan S P and Shrisha Rao, I.I.I.T. Bangalore

o  Citation Matching in Sanskrit Corpora Using Local Alignment

·    Sivaja S. Nair and Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad

o  The Knowledge Structure in Amarako§a

·    Malhar Kulkarni, Irawati Kulkarni, Chaitali Dangarikar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, I.I.T. Bombay

o  Gloss in Sanskrit Wordnet  

Coordinator: Dr. Rajnish Kumar Mishra, JNU

Observer: Madhav Gopal, research student, JNU

 

1600-1615: Tea

 

1615–1715 : Session 4: Plenary Talk 2

Chair: Brendan Gillon, McGill University, Canada

 

Speaker: Prof Navjyoti Singh, I.I.I.T., Hyderabad

Topic: Ontology of  Sanskrit  verbs

 

Coordinator: Dr. Ram Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Subhash Chandra, research student, JNU

 

1830-1930: Cultural program (BhŒsa’s play karöabhŒram) at SSS Auditorium

1930 : Dinner: S&A Lawns

 

 

 

Saturday, 11th Dec, 2010

Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU

 

 

0830 -0930: Breakfast & Registration

0930-1100:  Session 5: Corpora annotation and speech

Chair: Prof Sonajharia Minz, Dean, School of Computer & Systems Sciences, JNU

 

·         Madhav Gopal, Diwakar Mishra, Priyanka Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University

o   Evaluating Tagsets for Sanskrit

·         Baiju Mahananda, Raju C M S, Ramalinga Reddy Patil, Narayana Jha, Shrinivasa Varakhedi, Kishore Prahallad

o   Building a Prototype Text to Speech for Sanskrit 

·         Oliver Hellwig, University of Berlin, Germany

o   Performance of a lexical and POS tagger for Sanskrit

 

Coordinator: Dr. R Chandrashekhar, JNU

Observer: Diwakar Mishra, research student, JNU

 

 

1100-1200: Session 6: Sub-sentential processing

Chair: Prof.  K. V. Subbarao. Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities, University of Hyderabad

·    Anil Kumar, Vipul Mittal, Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad

o  Sanskrit Compound Processor

·    Peter M. Scharf, Brown University, USA

o  Rule-blocking and Forward-looking Conditions in the Computational Modeling of PŒöinian Derivation

Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Sachin Kumar, research student, JNU

 

1200-1300: Session 7: Plenary Talk 3

Chair: Prof. Mithilesh Chaturvedi, HOD, Dept of Sanskrit, Delhi University

 

Speaker: Prof B. N. Patnaik, I.I.T. Kanpur (retd)

Topic: Traditional Indian and Modern Western Approaches to Figurative Meaning: A Comparative Perspective

 

Coordinator: Dr. Santosh Kumar Shukla, JNU

Observer: Dr. Neeraj Sharma, HoD, Sanskrit, Kanya Mahavidyala, Jalandhar

 

1330-1400 hrs: Lunch

 

1400-1530 hrs:  Session 8: sentential processing – syntax, semantics

 

Chair: Ayesha Kidwai, Center of Linguistics, School of Language Literature & Culture Studies, JNU

 

·    Amba Kulkarni, Sheetal Pokar, Devanand Shukl, University of Hyderabad

o  Designing a Constraint Based Parser for Sanskrit

·    Rajesh Tavva and Navjyoti Singh, I.I.I.T. Hyderabad

o  Generative Graph Grammar of Neo-Vai§e·ika Formal Ontology (NVFO)

·    Malhar Kulkarni, Anuja Ajotikar, Tanuja Ajotikar, Dipesh Katira, Chinmay Dharurkar and Chaitali Dangarikar

o  Headedness and Modification in NyŒya morphosyntactic analysis: Towards a bracket-parsing model

Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Ritesh Kumar, research student, JNU

1530–1545 hrs: Tea

1545-1645: Session 9: Plenary Talk 4

Chair: Prof Peter M Shcarf, Brown University, USA

 

Speaker: Prof V. N. Jha,  former Director, CASS, Pune

 

Coordinator: Dr. Ram Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Avanti Nioding, research student, JNU

 

1700-1830 hrs:  Invited Session 10: §ŒstrŒrtha: §abdavicŒra

Chair:  Dr. Malhar Kulkarni, I.I.T. Bombay

 

·    Dr Santosh Shukla, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU

·    Dr Hari Ram Mishra, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU

·    Prof R.K. Pandey, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Delhi

 

Coordinator: Dr. C.Upender Rao, JNU

Observer: Paritosh Das, research student, JNU

 

1830-1930: Poster Gallery

1930 : Dinner

 

Sunday, 12/12/2010

Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU

0830-0930:  Breakfast & Registration

Missed paper (from Lexical Resources 10/12)

0930-1000: Diwakar Mani, Jawaharlal Nehru University

o  RDBMS based Lexical Resource for Indian Heritage: the case of MahŒbhŒrata

1000-1130 hrs:  Session 11: Machine Translation & ambiguity resolution

Chair:  Dr Malhar Kulkarni,  I.I.T. Bombay

·         Brendan S. Gillon, McGill University, Canada

o   Linguistic investigations into ellipsis in classical Sanskrit

·         Sobha L, Pravin Pralayankar, AU-KBC, Anna University, Chennai

o   Anaphora Resolution Algorithm for Sanskrit

·         Preeti Shukla, Devanand Shukl, Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad

o   Vibhakti Divergence between Sanskrit and Hindi

 

Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Nripendra Pathak, research student, JNU

 

1130-1230 hrs: Session 12: Plenary talk 5

Speaker:  Prof. Peter M. Scharf, Dept of Classics, Brown University, USA

Chair:  Dr Anand Mishra, University, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Coordinator: Dr. Maureen P Hall, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Observer: Chitresh Soni, research student, MLSU, Udaipur

 

1230-1245: Business meeting

 

1230-1330: Session 13: Plenary talk 6

Chair: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

 

Speaker :  Dr Gora Mohanty, Mimirtech Techologies, Delhi

Topic: Tower of Babel: natural languages in FOSS

 

Coordinator: Dr. Ajay Mishra, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi

Observer: Archana Tiwary, research student, JNU

 

1330-1430: Lunch

 

1430-1600 :  Session 14: Simulations of Panini grammar

Chair:  Prof Amba Kulkarni, HoD, Dept of Sanskrit, University of Hyderabad

·         Wiebke Petersen and Silke Hamann, Heinrich-Heine University, Germany

o   On the generalizabilty of Panini's PratyŒhŒra techniques to other languages

·         Anand Mishra, University, Heidelberg, Germany

o   Modelling A· ŒdhyŒy´ - An Approach based on the Methodology of Ancillary Disciplines (VedŒºga)

·         Sridhar Subbanna, Varakhedi Srinivasa, RSVP, Tirupati & Sanskrit Academy, Hyderabad

o   Asiddhatva Principle in Computational Model of A· ŒdhyŒay´

 

Coordinator: Dr. Hari Ram Mishra, JNU

Observer: Kuldeep Shukla, research student, JNU

 

 

1600-1630: Tea

 

1630–1830 hrs: Session 15: Valedictory Session

Chair: Prof. Peter M Scharf, Dept of Classics, Brown University, USA

 

Speakers :

 

Prof Kapil Kapoor,  former Rector, JNU

Prof Radhavallabh Tripathi,  VC, RSS, Delhi

Prof V. N. Jha, former Director, CASS, Pune

 

Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU

Observer: Rajneesh Kumar Pandey, research student, JNU

 

1830-1845: Conclusion and vote of thanks: Dr Girish Nath Jha, Special Center  for Sanskrit Studies, JNU

 

1900 hrs: Dinner