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Special CALL for FULL PAPERS
Section 23, Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities at 19th World Sanskrit Conference
26th - 30th Jun, 2025
Revised Important Dates are:
Submission of full papers closes: 31st Jan 2025
Acceptance notification for full papers: 15th Mar 2025
Camera Ready copy: 30th Apr 2025
Proceedings for Publication: 25th Jun 2025
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FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid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 Jun 2025, or soon thereafter.
Scholars interested in participating in Section 23 (Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities) should submit their FULL papers by email to
ambapradeep [at] gmail.com and hellwig7 [at] 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 23 Support Package and follow the additional instructions given on the WSC2024 Section 23 Website (https://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/19WSC). The deadline for submitting papers for consideration is Jan 31, 2025.
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)
Stefan Baums (University of Munich)
Arnab Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur)
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)
Sai Susarla (MIT, Pune)
Peter Scharf (Sanskrit Library, USA)
The instructions for typesetting and the latex-style files are available here(https://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/19WSC/) 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