9th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
ISCLS 2027
Location: 
Deccan College
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Wednesday, 20 January 2027 to Friday, 22 January 2027
Country: 
India
City: 
Pune
Contact: 
Arnab Bhattacharya
Hrishikesh Terdalkar
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Full papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: with Extensions to Related Ancient Indian Languages (Vedic, Pali, Prakrit)
Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
Computational phonology and morphology
Syntactic analysis
Prose order normalisation
Parsing
Discourse analysis
Structural semantics
Machine translation
Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus
Navya-Nyāya and other technical language processing
Information extraction
Named entity recognition
Computer modeling and simulation of traditional grammars
Theories of Śābdabodha and Sanskrit computational processing
Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sanskrit
Language models for Sanskrit

Digital Humanities and Corpus 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, śleṣa analysis
Software tools for phylogenic studies, intertextuality management, establishment of critical editions, and other philological applications
OCR recognition of romanized Sanskrit as well as ancient Indian scripts
Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
Annotation and editing
Alignment of text with images (including manuscripts)
User interface design

Miscellaneous Computer Applications Relevant to Sanskrit
Software tools for teaching Sanskrit
Tools and applications for Sanskrit dissemination