27.4170, Calls: Sanskrit, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Linguistics/India

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Subject: 27.4170, Calls: Sanskrit, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Linguistics/India

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:04:36
From: Anil Kumar Singh [aksingh.cse at iitbhu.ac.in]
Subject: Sanskrit Computational Linguisitics Tools and Sanskrit Libraries

 
Full Title: Sanskrit Computational Linguisitics Tools and Sanskrit Libraries 
Short Title: SCLWS-2016 

Date: 18-Dec-2016 - 18-Dec-2016
Location: Varanasi, India 
Contact Person: Amba Kulkarni
Meeting Email: ambapradeep at gmail.com
Web Site: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/resgrp/cnerg/sclws/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Sanskrit (san)

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Several platforms of computational linguistics have been developed for
Sanskrit. There are in-house efforts to use these computational linguistic
tools for semi-automatic annotation of the Sanskrit corpus at various levels
such as annotation of inflectional and derivational morphology, annotation of
kāraka roles, and linking the stems with various digital lexica. These tasks
are being carried out mostly semi-automatically involving a human supervision,
or with a user interface for appropriate selection. Several Digital Sanskrit
libraries are being developed. However, there is no present consensus on
interoperability between the ones and the others, such as inter-translatable
annotation of corpus. Moreover, for want of a common platform, there is very
little communication among the researchers involved in the digital libraries
and the computational linguists.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for the various researchers
involved in such efforts, in view of increasing cooperation in this area. The
workshop would welcome participants both from the computational linguistics
side and from the philology side, as well as traditional pandits interested in
computer usage. This forum would provide a platform to discuss on the
interoperability between the two platforms, such as inter-translatable
annotation of corpus, development of proper user interfaces etc. facilitating
bridging the gap between the two efforts.


Call for Papersː

The workshop invites submissions in the following workshop topicsː

Corpus Managementː

- Sanskrit digital libraries formats
- Versioning of digital libraries
- Quality control of corpus acquisition, traceability of annotation
- Incremental annotation and version control
- Distribution and replication issues of digital libraries

Textual Representationː

- Format of metadata, line numbering
- Lexical conventions concerning sandhi, avagraha, punctuation, quotations
explicitation
- Representation of ambiguities, śleṣa explicitation, notation for variants
- Technical issues in computer encodings of Sanskrit

Annotationsː

- Morphological tags for Sanskrit
- Semantic roles tagging (kāraka/ākāṅkṣā)
- Annotation training
- Discourse tagging, anaphoric references explicitation
- Meter recognition
- Statistical methods for annotation automation.

Digital Lexiconː

- Alignment of digital lexicons
- Root concordances / Dhātupātha formalisation

The workshop accepts submissions of the following typesː

- Regular papers (6-8 pages)
- System Demonstrations (2-3 pages)

Submission Instructionsː

The papers should be written either in English or in Sanskrit. Papers written
in any other language will be rejected without any review. The authors must
submit their papers before the deadline (1 November, anywhere in the world) by
sending an email to icon2016workshop at gmail.com.

For demonstration papers, the authors are advised to give a link to their
system, if accessible online, or provide some snapshots as appendix. Authors
can use any number of pages for this appendix.

Important Dates:

First Call for Papers: 26 September 2016
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2016
Acceptance Notification: 15 November 2016
Workshop: 18 December 2016




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