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*संस्कृत* *एवं* *अन्य* *भारतीय* *भाषाएं* *- **प्रौद्योगिकी* *Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages -Technology (SOIL-Tech)* Jointly organized by School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU And Bharatiya Bhasha Manch ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- *Date: *Thursday-Saturday, 11-13th October 2018 *Venue: *Convention Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi *Website:* - *Main website* – *http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index-en.jsp <http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index-en.jsp>* *(**For English version)* *http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index.jsp <http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index.jsp> * *(**For Hindi version)* - *Submit papers on** - **https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018>* 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 *DATES * *August* * 12, 2018 *Paper submissions due *(Extended date)* September 04 *, 2018 *Notification of results September 10, 2018 Camera-ready papers due *October 11-13, 2018 *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 2018 website. Please submit papers in PDF format through EasyChair website (*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soiltech2018>*). The Conference P roceedings will be published by *DK Printworld*. <http://www.dkprintworld.com/> 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/ <http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre4>soiltech1* *Conference Chairs* - Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Vrshabh Prasad Jain, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch and MGAHU, Wardha *Organising** Committee (to be updated)* - Atul Kothari, Bhartiya Bhasha Manch - Anupam Shukla, ABV IIIT, Gwalior - C U Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Ramnath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Sudhir K Arya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Santosh Kumar Shukla, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Brijesh Pandey, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Rajnish Kumar Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Satyamurty, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Gopal Lal Meena, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Hari Ram Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - T Mahendar, 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 - 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 DPawar, Goa University - 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 - Pinky Nainwani, Cognizent Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore - Pushpak Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Patna - Ritesh Kumar, Agra University - S.S. Agrawal, KIIT, Gurgaon, India - Sachin Kumar, CDAC-Pune - Santanu Chaudhury, DIRECTOR, CEERI PILANI - Shivaji Bandhopadhyay, Director, NIT, Silchar - Sobha L, Director, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University - Subhash Chandra, Delhi University - Swaran Lata, Head, TDIL, MCIT, Govtof India - Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University, Patiala * *Conference **Manager**:* Atul Kr. Ojha, Sr. NLP Research Engineer, MTEP project @JNU *shashwatu...@gmail.com <shashwatu...@gmail.com>* Thanks and regards, Atul Kr Ojha
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