Third International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium

January 15^th - 17^th 2009

Department of Sanskrit Studies,

University of Hyderabad, India

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Proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer Verlag as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 5406 and you may access the contents online from here .

The Sanskrit Translations of the abstracts are published by Sanskrit Academy and are available here.

• Day 1: 15^th January, 2009

  • 8:30 am - 9:30 am Registration [Photos]

  • 9:30 am - 10:00 am Inauguration [Photos]

  • 10:00 am - 11:00 am Keynote Speech [Photos] [video]

    • Prof. S. D. Joshi Background of the Aṣṭādhyāyī

  • 11:00 am - 11:30 am Tea Break [Photos]

  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Modelling Pāṇini-I [Photos]

    Chair: M A Lakshmi Thathachar
    

    • Anand Mishra Modelling the Grammatical Circle of the Pāṇinian System of Sanskrit Grammar [video]

    • Sridhar S. and Varakhedi Srinivas Conflict Resolution Techniques in Aṣṭādhyāyī [slides][video]

  • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch Break [Photos]

  • 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Parsing [Photos]

    Chair: Rajeev Sangal
    

    • Brendan Gillon Parsing Classical Sanskrit Compounds

    • Oliver Hellwig Extracting dependency trees from Sanskrit texts + demo [Slides] [video]

  • 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Tea Break

  • 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Demo Session -I (Girish Nath Jha[video] and BVK Shastry[video] and Lakshmi Tatachar[video]) [Photos]

• Day 2: 16^th January, 2009

  • 9:30 am - 10:30 am Invited Speech

    • Prof. Jan E. M. Houben A construction grammar approach to Pāṇinian grammar and its computerization [video]

  • 10:30 am - 11:00 am Tea Break [Photos]

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm Modelling Pāṇini-II [Photos]

    Chair: Prof. Arvind Joshi
    

    • Wiebke Petersen On the Construction of śivasūtraḥ-Alphabets [Slides] [video]

    • Peter Scharf Levels in Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī [video]

  • 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Demonstration of Harakāre's Pāṇinian Machine [Photos] [video]

  • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch Break [Photos]

  • 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Vidvat-sabhā on 'vākyārthavicāra' [Photos] [video]
    
    Participants:

    • Prof. Prahladachar (Chair)

    • Prof. K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu

    • Prof. Arindam Chakravarti

    • Prof. Haridas Bhatt

    • Prof. Rajaram Shukla

    • Prof. K. E. Devanathan

    • Dr. Veeranarayan Pandurangi

    • Dr. Srinivasa Varakhedi

    • Dr. Tirumala Kulakarni

  • 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm High Tea

  • 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm Dance Performance 'Sanskrit Compositions' (Department of Dance) [Photos] [video]

  • Day 3: 17^th January, 2009

    • 9:30 - 10:30 Invited Speech [Photos]

      • Prof. K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu Annotating Sanskrit Texts based on śābdabodha systems [slides] [video]

    • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Tea Break

    • 10:45 am - 1:00 pm Machine Translation and Digital Lexical resources [Photos]

      Chair: Lalit Kumar Tripathi
      

      • Girish Nath Jha et al Sanskrit Analyzing System (SAS) [video] [slides]

      • Pawan Goyal and R. Mahesh K. Sinha Translation Divergence in English-Sanskrit-Hindi language pairs

      • Malhar Kulkarni and Chaitali Dangarikar Web Concordance of the Prakīrṇa-Prakāśa of Helārāja on the Jātisamuddeśa (3.1) of vākyapadīya [video]

  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 pm Demo Session -II (Gérard Huet) [video]

  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 pm Lunch Break

  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 pm Demo Session -III (Peter Scharf and Amba Kulkarni)[video] [video]

  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 pm Panel Discussion on Standardisation Issues
    Panelist:

    • Brendan Gillon

    • Gérard Huet

    • Girish Nath Jha

    • Amba Kulkarni

    • Swaran Lata

    • K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu

    • Peter Scharf

  • 4:30 pm - 5:00 PM Valedictory [photos] [video]