Sanskrit and Digital Humanities at the 18th World Sanskrit Conference

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Oct 19, 2021, 1:35:37 PM10/19/21

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Special CALL for FULL PAPERS

Section 19, *Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities at the 18th World Sanskrit Conference*

From 9 to 13 January 2023

*Important Dates are:*

# Submission of full papers closes on: 31 March 2022

# Acceptance notification for full papers: 30 May 2022

# Camera Ready copy: 30 Sept 2022

# Proceedings for Publication: 30 Nov 2022

*Venue:* The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on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 2023 meetings in January 2023, or

soon thereafter.

Scholars interested in participating in Section 19

(Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities) should submit their manuscripts by email to sans...@kaigi.com.au with a copy to ambap...@gmail.com and hell...@gmx.de with "Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities NEW SUBMISSION" in the subject line.

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 WSC2023 Section 19 Support Package and follow the additional instructions given on the WSC2023 Section 19 Website.

The deadline for submitting papers for consideration is March 31, 2022.

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 Nyāya 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 śābdabodha 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, alaṃkāra 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 AndrijaniÄ‡ (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 DÃ¼sseldorf)

+ 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 a specific package to help you prepare your full papers, can be found on the WSC2023 Section 19 Website

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

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Convenors

Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni and Ian McCrabb

आ नो भद्रा: क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वत: ll

Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.

- Rig Veda, I-89-i.

Professor

Department of Sanskrit Studies

University of Hyderabad

Prof. C.R. Rao Road

Hyderabad-500 046