A two day Colloquium to mark the 25 years of NLP research in India with
Pāṇinian Perspective
The NLP activities in India and Sanskrit studies took a new direction some 25 years back when the Sanskrit scholars and the Computer Scientists joined hands and started working together with a common goal of building a Machine Translation systems. During this process, many linguists joined the main stream of NLP research, the community grew, the research areas broadened both in quality and the quantity.
Prof. K.V.Ramakrishnamacharyulu, a founding member of this community joined this team with his treasure of Sanskrit grammar. With a vision to open new vistas and an open mindedness to adapt to the new challanges, he made important contributions to the establishment and growth of a new discipline and also created confidence among the NLP researchers for the application of the Indian grammatical tradition to the emerging technologies. He is one of the key members of the Akshar Bharati group and has contributed directly to the development of various computational tools for Indian languages. He was instrumental in providing guidelines for developing annotation schemes for Sanskrit and Hindi (which are being extended to other Indian Languages as well) following Paninian Grammar.
Interestingly, Prof. K.V.Ramakrishnamacharyulu attains 65 years at a time which coincides with the 25 years of NLP activities in India. On this occasion a 2 day colloquium is being organised jointly by Department of Sanskrit Studies and Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad on 2nd and 3rd August, 2012.
Full papers are invited on topics closely related to the NLP, Computational Linguistics and areas in which Prof. K.V.Ramakrishnamacharyulu has been working.
Last date for submission of abstracts: 31st May, 2012
Selection notification: 30th June, 2012
Colloquium Dates: 2nd and 3rd August 2012
There is also a plan to publish the proceedings in the form of a Felicitation volume for Prof. K.V.Ramakrishnamacharyulu
Areas on which papers are invited
Vyākaraṇa
Pāṇinian Grammar and Sanskrit Computational Linguistics
Pāinian Grammar and Modern Linguistics
Pāṇinian Grammar applied to Modern Indian Languages
Śābdabodha Systems
Program Committee:
Amba Kulkarni (Chair), Univ of Hyderabad
Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT-H
G UmaMaheshwarRao, Univ of Hyderabad
J S R A Prasad, Univ of Hyderabad
Panchanan Mohanty (Co-Chair), Univ of Hyderabad
S S Murty, RSVP, Tirupati
Shrinivas Varakhedi, KSU, Bangalore
Sheeba, CIFSS, Velianad, Keral
Subhraimanyam, Skt Academy, Hyderabad
Tirumala Kulakarni, PPVP, Bangalore
Veeranarayana Pandurangi, JRR Skt Uni, Jaipur
Advisory Committee:
Prof. Kutumba Shastri
Prof. Prahladachar
Prof. Rajeev Sangal
Prof. Vineet Chaitanya
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Dr. Pankaj Kumar Vyas
Asst. Professor in Vyakarana
Haryana Sanskrit Vidyapeetha,
Baghola, Distt. Palwal
Faridabad,
Haryana- 121102
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