Corpora: Call for Participation

[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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INTERNATIONAL  WORKSHOP  ON  TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT  IN  INDIAN  LANGUAGES
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute,
Calcutta,
India

DATE
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March 26 - 30, 2001

Advisory Committee
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Prof. K.B. Sinha, Director, ISI, India, Chairman
Prof. M.G.K. Menon, India
Prof. C.R. Rao, USA
Prof. K.Yamamoto, Japan
Prof. N.Bhattacharya, India
Prof. H.Bunke, Switzerland
Prof. D. Dutta Majumder, India
Prof. J.K. Ghosh, India
Prof. R.M. Haralick, USA
Prof. J.P.Hanton, France
Prof. A. Joshi, USA
Prof. R. Kasturi, USA

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Prof. Bidyut Banran Chaudhuri, Chairman
Prof. Swapan Kumar Parui, Convenor
Prof. Nikhil Ranjan Pal
Prof. Ashok Kumar Datta
Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
Mr. Ujjwal Bhattacharya
Dr. Mandar Mitra
Mr. Anil Kumar Chand 	
Ms. Madhumita Pal
Dr. Lopamudra Chaudhuri
Dr. Umapada Pal
Dr. Sarbani Palit
Mr. Utpal Garain
Ms. Shamita Ghosh
Dr. Sanghamitra Saha

LIST OF SPEAKERS (Tentative)
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Prof. Barbara Fox, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Prof. Harold Somers, University of Manchester, (IST), UK
Dr. Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA
Dr. Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs Reasearch, USA
Prof. Gautam Sengupta, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation
Studies, Hyderabad, India
Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Indian Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad, India
Prof. B. Yegnanarayana, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Dr. Shantanu Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Dr. Soumen Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

OBJECTIVE
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For over a decade, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta has been active in research on
various areas related to Language Technology, including Document Analysis,
Speech Processing, and Natural Language Processing.

	Under an initiative of the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India, this
Unit has been selected as a Resource Centre for Technology Development of
Indian Languages, with special emphasis on Bangla.

	As a part of this project, we are organizing a workshop consisting
of a series of tutorials on Indian Language Information Technology,
followed by lectures by eminent scientists on this subject.

The goals of this workshop are:
(i) to make scholars aware of recent research, developments, and
applications of Indian language technologies
(ii) to encourage research on Indian language technology, and to explore
new applications of the existing technologies
(iii) to establish contacts with international experts working on various
aspects of language technology
(iv) to consider opportunities for collaborative research and development


TUTORIALS (AREAS OF SPEECH)
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* Machine Translation
* Articulatory Phonetics
* Anaphora Resolution
* Acoustic Phonetics	
* Corpora Processing
* Speech Recognition
* Quantitative Linguistics
* Morphological Processing
* Speech Synthesis	
* Document Analysis	
* Optical Character Recognition
* Information Retrieval

REGISTRATION
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Registration is necessary for all participants. Only 50 participants will
be registered on first-come-first-serve basis. Last date for receiving
completed registration form: 31st Jan., 2001.

Registration Fees for the Participants:
*Research Scholars & Teachers from Colleges/Univs. of India : Rs. 500
* People from other Institutions of India : Rs. 2,000
* Participants from abroad                 : US $50

(Registration fees may be waived for deserving participants)
Interested people are requested to mail to:
Chairman: <bbc at isical.ac.in> or
Convernor : cvpr at isical.ac.in> or
N.S.Dash <niladri at isical.ac.in>

ACCOMODATION
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Registered participants will be provided accommodation. Accommodation
charges will have to be borne by the participants other than the invited
speakers.

VENUE
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The workshop will be held at the Seminar Room of the CVPR Unit of Indian
Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.


CONTACT ADDRESS
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Convener, IWTDIL 2001				
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Unit 	
Indian Statistical Institute				
203, B. T. Road,
Calcutta  700 035, India.
Phone: (91) (33) 577-2088 Ext. 2852
Fax: (91) (33) 577-3035/6680
E-Mail: <cvpr at isical.ac.in>
URL: www..isical.ac.in/~cvpr/events/wshop01.html

This program is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology
(MIT), Government of India