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9th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (9th ISCLS)

Deccan College, Pune, India

20-22 January, 2027

https://iscls.github.io/

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Call For Papers

Full papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: October 20, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2026

Camera Ready Submissions: December 15, 2026

Please submit at the following website:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISCLS2027

The submissions should not exceed 20 pages, and should include the title,
abstract, and names and affiliations of all authors. To prepare your
submission, please use the formatting files listed on the website, and follow
the instructions provided there.

Usage of Generative AI tools is limited only to paraphrasing and formatting.
It must be clearly acknowledged.

In addition to full papers, a separate demonstrations and poster track will
accept submissions. 

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

Program Committee Chair: Brendan Gillon, Arnab Bhattacharya
Organising Chair: Prasad Joshi
Demonstrations and Publicity Chair: Arjuna S R
Web and Publications Chair: Hrishikesh Terdalkar

Steering Committee:
Amba Kulkarni, IIT Hyderabad
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur
Brendan Gillon, McGill University
Gérard Huet, INRIA Paris
Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Peter Scharf, The Sanskrit Library

Previous Editions:
IIT Roorkee, India (2026)
Auroville, Puducherry, India (2024)
IIT Kharagpur, India (2019)
IIT Bombay, India (2013)
JNU, Delhi, India (2010)
University of Hyderabad, India (2009)
Brown University, Providence, USA (2008)
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007)