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Special CALL for FULL PAPERS
Section 21, Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities
19th World Sanskrit Conference
Revised Important Dates are:
Submission of full papers closes on: 09 Sept 2024
Acceptance notification for full papers: 20th Oct 2024
Camera Ready copy: 10th Nov 2024
Proceedings for Publication: 15th Dec 2024
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal
FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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. Accepted papers are to be published online under ACL anthology in advance of the WSC meetings in Dec 2024, or soon thereafter.
Scholars interested in participating in Section 21
(Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities) should submit their FULL papers by email ambapradeep@gmail.com and hellwig7@gmx.de with "Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities SUBMISSION" in the subject line.
These manuscript submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee of the section. To prepare your manuscript for submission and to procure the relevant LaTeX style files, you may download the WSC2024 Section 21 Support Package and follow the additional instructions given on the WSC2024 Section 21 Website (https://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/19WSC).
The deadline for submitting papers for consideration is Sept 09, 2024.
The areas of interest for this section include, but are not limited to:
- Computational linguistics:
- Digital lexicons, thesauri and wordnets
- Computational phonology and morphology
- Syntactic analysis
- Prose order normalisation
- Parsing
- Structural semantics
- Machine Translation
- Automatic analysis of Sanskrit corpus
- Machine Learning approaches to computational processing
- Navya Nyāya technical language processing and semantic analysis
- Information extraction
- 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
- Stylometry and authorship attribution
- OCR recognition of ancient Indian scripts
- Digital cataloguing of manuscripts
- Digital font creation, rendering of phonetic features, etc.
- Misc computer applications relevant to Sanskrit:
- Software tools for teaching Sanskrit
- Sanskrit speech recognition and synthesis
- Social media applications for Sanskrit dissemination
Programme Committee:
- Chairs:
- Amba Kulkarni (University of Hyderabad)
- Oliver Hellwig (University of Zurich)
- Members:
- Tanuja Ajotikar (Sanskrit Library, USA)
- Ivan Andrijanić (University of Zagreb)
- Stefan Baums (University of Munich)
- Arnab Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur)
- Brendan Gillon (McGill University)
- Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)
- Amrith Krishna (Learno.ai)
- Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)
- Philipp Mass (University of Leipzig, Germany)
- Patrick McAllister (IKGA, Austria)
- Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad)
- Jivnesh Sandhan (IIT, Dharwad)
- Pavan Kumar Satuluri (IIT, Roorkee)
- Peter Scharf (Sanskrit Library, USA)
- Sai Susarla (MIT, Pune)
The instructions for typesetting and the latex style files are available here for download.
The Proceedings of this section would be published by ACL and will be included in the ACL Anthology.
Convenors: Gérard Huet, and Amba Kulkarni