SOIL-Tech
Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages - Technology
Convention Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi
15-17 February 2019
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Motivation and Aim
Indian language technology stands at a critical juncture today. On one hand, linguistic and cultural diversities give Indian languages freedom and independence; make them dynamic; on the other hand, the lack of technology and related resources, is making them less competitive in the digital age. The ability of the Sanskrit language i.e. its standard grammar; acceptability and closeness with the four main language families along with the computational complexity of 1761 languages, has attracted the language technology community.
The influence of Sanskrit has been significant not only on all Indian languages but also on Indian culture and mind. About 77% of the languages belong to the Indo Aryan family and almost all the scripts come from Brahmi. The Paninian system and vocabulary, linguistic and literary criteria – all have been influential on the entire linguistic map of India.
In view of the above role and facts; and the Indian government's undertakings in Indian languages; also keeping in view the absence of technology and related content, JNU and the Bhartiya Bhasha Manch have decided to jointly organize a 3 day conference to initiate a discussion on the present status of language technology for Indian languages and formulate guidelines for further research initiatives.
The broader objectives of the SOIL-Tech will be
- To create a White Paper for 22 scheduled Indian languages
- To investigate challenges related to creating and sharing various levels of language resources on Sanskrit and Other Indian languages
- To provide a space for dialogue between Indian language resource developers and users
- To form dedicated groups in creating critical technologies for Indian languages
Description of the Topic
In the past few years, as more resources have been developed and made available, an increased activity in the development of usable technology with reference to White Papers has been observed. Hence, SOIL-Tech conference will put special focus on “white papers” of Indian Language Technology on similar lines as done by the EU’s project META-NET.
In addition, we are inviting technical, policy and position paper submissions on the following topics related to Indian Language Technological resources:
- Corpora - text, speech, multimodal, methodologies, annotation and tools
- Digital Humanities
- E-learning
- Formal grammars
- Heritage computing
- Information Extraction and retrieval,
- Language resources for NLP
- Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries
- Machine Translation
- Ontologies
- Strategies for digitization of ancient manuscripts
- Digital Library
- Speech Technology
- Standards or specifications for language resources applications
- Web Semantics
Both submission and review processes handled electronically. The review process will be double-blind.
Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages - Technology
Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages - Technology (SOIL-Tech)
Date: Friday-Sunday, 15-17 February 2019
Venue: Convention Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Website:
Main website - http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1 Submit papers on - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018 Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages - Technology (SOIL-Tech ) is being organized at JNU, New Delhi on 15-17 Feb 2019. The broader objectives of the SOIL-Tech will be
- To create a White Paper for 22 scheduled Indian languages
- To investigate challenges related to creating and sharing various levels of language resources on Sanskrit and Other Indian languages
- To provide a space for dialogue between Indian language resource developers and users
- To form dedicated groups in creating critical technologies for Indian languages
DATES
August 12, 2018 Paper submissions due
October 12, 2018 Poster submissions due
October 10, 2018 Paper notification of acceptance
October 20, 2018 Poster notification of acceptance
October 25, 2018 Camera-ready papers due
February 15-17, 2019 Conference
SUBMISSIONS
Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.
Accepted papers will be given up to 10-20 pages (for white papers), 10 pages (for research papers) and 5 pages for short papers/posters in the conference proceedings and can be presented as either oral presentation or poster.
Papers should be formatted according to the SOIL-Tech style-sheet, which is available on the SOIL-Tech 2019 website. Paper should be completely anonymised and anything pointing to the author(s) of the paper should be completely removed. Please submit papers in PDF format through EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018). The Conference proceedings will be published by Garuda Prakashan.
We are seeking submissions under the following categories
Full papers (10 pages) Short papers (work in progress – 5 pages) In the past few years, as more resources have been developed and made available, an increased activity in the development of usable technology with reference to White Papers has been observed. Hence, SOIL-Tech conference will put special focus on “white papers” of Indian Language Technology on similar lines as done by the EU’s project META-NET. In addition, we are inviting technical, policy and position paper submissions on the following topics related to Indian Language Technological resources:
Corpora - text, speech, multimodal, methodologies, annotation and tools Digital Humanities E-learning Formal grammars Heritage computing Information Extraction and retrieval, Language resources for NLP Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries Machine Translation Ontologies Strategies for digitization of ancient manuscripts Digital Library Speech Technology Standards or specifications for language resources applications Web Semantics Both, submissions and review processes, will be handled electronically. The review process will be double-blind
For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index.jsp/
Conference Chairs
- Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Vrshabh Prasad Jain, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch and MGAHU, Wardha
Conference manager:
Atul Kr. Ojha, Sr. NLP Research Engineer, MTEP project@JNU shashwatup9k@gmail.com
Conference Chairs
Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Vrshabh Prasad Jain, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch and MGAHU, WardhaDetails of the Organizers
Girish Nath Jha
Professor in Computational Linguistics
& Dean, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies,
J.N.U., New Delhi - 110067
ph.91-11-26741308 (o) Email: girishjha@gmail.comGirish Nath Jha is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Dean School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He is also Professor and Concurrent faculty in the Center of Linguistics, School of Language Literature and Culture Studies in JNU. He was a visiting professor at the Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA from 2009-2012 and to Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia in 2013 and 2016 and to University of Wurzburg, Germany in 2014 and Nov 2016. He was a visiting professor in the University of Florence, Italy in June 2016. Prof Jha completed his doctoral degree in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics) from JNU and then did another masters degree in Linguistics (Natural Language Interface) from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA in 1999. Since then he worked as software engineer in USA before joining JNU in 2002. Prof Jha’s research interests include Indian languages corpora and standards, Sanskrit and Hindi linguistics, Computational Lexicography, Machine Translation, Natural Language Interfaces, e-learning, web based technologies, RDBMS techniques, software design and localization. He has worked as consultant for LDC (University of Pennsylvania), Microsoft Corp and Microsoft Research India among others. He consulted for Microsoft in 2012 for creating English-Urdu MT system for Bing Translator. He recently consulted with Swiftkey to develop mobile keyboards for some of India’s less resourced languages. Prof Jha is currently leading a consortium of 17 Indian universities to develop parallel annotated corpora for major Indian languages.
Organising Committee (to be updated)
- Atul Kothari, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch
- Anupam Shukla, ABV-IIIT, Gwalior
- Ishwar Dayal Kansal, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch
- Santosh Kumar Shukla, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Brajesh Pandey, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Rajnish Kumar Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Malkhan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Program Committee (to be updated)
- Adil Amin Kak, Kashmir University
- Arul Mozhi, University of Hyderabad
- Asif Iqbal, IIT Patna, Patna
- Anil Kumar Singh, IIT BHU, Benaras
- Anupam Basu, Director, NIIT, Durgapur
- Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK
- Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad
- Diwakr Mishra, EZDI, Ahmedabad
- Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Elizabeth Sherley, IITM-Kerala, Trivandrum
- Esha Banerjee, Google, USA
- Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Jyoti D. Pawar, Goa University
- Karunesh Arora, CDAC Noida
- Kalika Bali, MSRI, Bangalore
- Lars Hellan, NTNU, Norway
- Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
- Manji Bhadra, Bankura University, West Bengal
- Massimo Monaglia, University of Florence, Italy
- Monojit Choudhary, MSRI Bangalore
- Narayan Choudhary, CIIL, Mysore
- Niladri Shekhar Dash, ISI Kolkata
- Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad
- Pinkey Nainwani, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore
- Pushpak Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Patna
- Rahul Garg, IIT-Delhi, Delhi
- Ritesh Kumar, Agra University
- Santanu Chaudhury, Director, CEERI Pilani
- Sachin Kumar, CDAC-Pune
- S.S. Aggarwal, KIIT, Gurgaon, India
- Shivaji Bandhopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Sobha L, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University
- Subhash Chandra, Delhi University
- Swaran Lata, Head, TDIL, MCIT, Govt. of India
- Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University, Patiala
- Vrshabh Prasad Jain, Bharatiya Bhasha Manch and MGAHU, Wardha
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