Third International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium

January 15th - 17th 2009

University of Hyderabad, India



The Third International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics will take place at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India on 15th and 16th of January 2009, followed by a one day workshop on 17th January 2009 on issues related to tagging of Sanskrit linguistic resources at various levels.

This symposium follows upon the successful two international Sanskrit computational linguistics symposia hosted by INRIA, France and Brown University, USA in October 2007 and May 2008 respectively.

Full length papers are solicited in the following areas:

  • Modeling linguistic processes for Sanskrit
    • Representation of morpho-phonetics;
    • encoding of phonological features and prosody;
    • sandhi application and analysis;
    • morphological paradigms and parameters for classical Sanskrit (both derivational and inflectional).
  • Developing digitized lexical sources
    • Representation of a Sanskrit Generative Lexicon; Sanskrit Wordnet;
    • Sense disambiguation, treatment of ontological structure
  • Tagging and Parsing
    • Tagging and shallow syntax; dependency grammars for Sanskrit,
    • kaaraka representation and processing.
    • treebank formats for Sanskrit;
    • Sanskrit parsing.
  • Sanskrit Reader and Automatic Translation
    • Tools as an aid to access Sanskrit texts through other languages
  • Standardization
    • interoperability issues;
    • evaluation of linguistic tasks such as tagging, stemming, parsing.
    • Corpus tagging at various levels of granularity.
    • Indexing and anchoring of citations.
    • Prosody representation.
  • Collation and critical edition software
    • Multi-layer corpus architecture for philology applications (manuscript variants, critical editions, commentary structure)
    • statistical analysis, philogenetic computations
  • Modeling Paninian descriptions
    • Computerization of Paninian descriptions,
    • representation of suutras, vaarttikas, ga.napaa.thas, dhaatupaa.thas.
  • Text-image alignment, digital libraries and OCR-technology

Program Chairs:

Gérard Huet
Amba Kulkarni

Steering Committee:

Brendan Gillon
Gérard Huet
Amba Kulkarni
Malhar Kulkarni
Peter Scharf

Program Committee:

Stefan Baums
Pushpak Bhattacharya
Brendan S. Gillon
Francois Grimal
Jan Houben
Malcolm Hyman
Girish Nath Jha
K V R Krishnamacharyulu
Malhar Kulkarni
Lalit Kumar Tripathi
Peter M. Scharf
Srinivas Varakhedi

Local Organisation

J S R A Prasad
K Subramaniam

Important dates

August 31st 2008: Deadline for submission
September 30th 2008: Acceptance notice
October 30th 2008: Camera ready copy in LNCS style due
January 15th and 16th , 2009: Symposium
January 17th , 2009: Workshop

Manuscript Preparation:

Manuscripts are requested in pdf format (unusual fonts should be included) sent as attachments to emails to both the chairs Huet and Kulkarni with subject submissions to TSCLS. Springer has accepted the responsibility of publishing the proceedings and make it available at the time of the Symposium. The submissions will also be available as a free electronic archive. The papers should be less than 20 pages long, written in English, in the LNCS style correspond to 30 min. oral communications.

Shorter papers will also be considered for progress report sessions as well as demonstrations of software prototypes.

If there is a good response, a separate demo session would be arranged for the demonstration of various Sanskrit computational linguistics software tools.