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7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (7th ISCLS)

Auroville, Puducherry, India

15-17 Feb, 2024

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Full papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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: Oct 03, 2023

Notification of Acceptance: Nov 28, 2023

Camera Ready Version Due: Jan 08, 2024

Please submit using the CMT3 Submission portal:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISCLS2024

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 LaTeX source files listed on the website, and follow
the instructions provided there.

The proceedings would be published as a part of ACL Anthology under
https://aclanthology.org/venues/iscls/

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

Shāstric Sanskrit Texts and Computation

    Computer modeling 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, 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
    Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
    Tools and applications for Sanskrit dissemination

Program Committee Chair: Arnab Bhattacharya
Organising Chair: Martin Gluckman 

Program Committee:

Amba Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad
Amrith Krishna, Uniphore
Arjuna S R, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur
Brendan Gillon, McGill University
Chaitali Dangarikar, IIT Kanpur
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay
Gérard Huet, INRIA Paris
Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Oliver Hellwig, University of Zürich
Patrick McAllister, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Pavan Kumar Satuluri, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth
Pawan Goyal, IIT Kharagpur
Peter Scharf, The Sanskrit Library
Sebastian Nehrdich, Heinrich Heine Universität
Shivani V, Karnataka Sanskrit University
Tanuja P Ajotikar, The Sanskrit Library

Previous Editions:

INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France (2007)
Brown University, Providence, USA (2008)
University of Hyderabad, India (2009)
JNU, Delhi, India (2010)
IIT Bombay, India (2013)
IIT Kharagpur, India (2019)