The Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of the Indian Statistical Institute is organising a 3-day Workshop during March 5-7, 2025 on “Translation and Annotation of Scientific, Knowledge, Technical Texts” under the aegis of Vidyaapati Project of Bhashini sponsored by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India. The inaugural programme was held on today i.e. 5th March (Wednesday) at 11.00 AM in the Seminar Room (8th Floor) of the Applied Statistics Unit, S.N. Bose Bhavan of the Institute with the gracious presence of Dr. Swaran Lata, Ex-Director, MeitY & Advisor of Bhashini, Govt. of India as Chief Guest and she delivered her Keynote Address to the participants. On this occasion, Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Director, ISI delivered her address concerning the activities of language technology of the Institute especially in Linguistic Research Unit as the Chair of the Inaugural Session. Prof. Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Deputy Director, ISI also addressed as Guest of Honour, Prof. Biswabrata Pradhan, Dean of Studies, ISI graced the programme as a Special Guest. Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash, Head, LRU delivered Welcome Address and Dr. Mendem Bapuji, LRU proposed the vote of thanks in the ceremony.
The workshop is organised as a part of the ‘Vidyaapati’ project which is a part of the ‘National Languages Translation Mission (NLTM): Bhashini’. Bhashini (Bhasha Interface for India) is a project of MeitY of Govt. of India, which aims to help Indians to translate content in various Indian languages, enable effective communication among different-language speakers across India, and thus reduce the language barriers in India. This 3-day workshop will mainly focus on the training and development of Translation and Annotation with strategies, techniques, tools, practices of bidirectional translation different methods of Machine Translation in contextualized and decontextualized linguistic frameworks through the ideas about open source tools & software available for use on Indian language corpora and databases, application of recently developed translation models of generating digital language corpora to be used in Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and in other domains of Technolinguistics, Digital Humanities, Digital Ethnography, Digital Governance, and Digital Democracy.
Eminent academicians and researchers like Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, PI, Vidyaapati and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., IIT Bombay; Prof. Indranil Dutta, School of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Dr. Sudip Naskar, Dept. of Computer Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Prof. Prasenjit Majumder, DAIT, Ahmedabad; Dr. R.R. Rajeev, ICFOSS, Trivandrum, Kerala; Prof. Girish Nath Jha, School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies, J.N.U, New Delhi; Prof. Sobha Lalitha Devi, AUKBC, Chennai; Dr. Asif Ekbal, IIT Jodhpur; Prof. Kaushik Roy, WBSU, Barasat; Dr. Debapriyo Majumdar, CVPR Unit, ISI, Kolkata will delivered and shared their ideas, experience to the participants.
The workshop is open to academicians and researchers working in Linguistics, Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Speech Technology, Cognitive Science, Forensic Linguistics and related disciplines. It is primarily designed for postgraduate students, research fellows, project fellows, young entrepreneurs, young faculties, and early career researchers. It is also open for government officials, corporate professionals and independent researchers working or interested in machine translation and related areas.
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Today Workshop on “Translation and Annotation of Scientific, Technical and Knowledge Texts” under the aegis of Vidyaapati Project of Bhashini sponsored by the MeitY, Govt. of India, and to be held at Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 5-7 March 2025 Background: The present workshop is organised as a part of the ‘Vidyaapati’ project which is a part of the ‘National Languages Translation Mission (NLTM): Bhashini’. Within this framework, the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, is organising a 3-day workshop titled ‘Translation and Annotation of Scientific, Technical and Knowledge Texts’ from 5-7 March 2025 to be held at ASU Seminar Room, ISI, Kolkata. Objectives: To train participants with strategies, techniques, tools and practices of bidirectional translation of scientific, technical and knowledge texts in Indian languages. To train participants with methods and processes of processing and annotation of written texts produced in Indian languages. To train participants with policies, methods, rules and processes of Named Entity Recognition and annotation in Indian language texts. To train participants with different methods of Machine Translation in contextualized and decontextualized linguistic frameworks. To give ideas about open source tools and software available for use on Indian language corpora and databases. To give ideas about the application of recently developed translation models and methods in real-world situations. To develop a pool of human resources to be engaged in research and applications in language engineering and language technology. To expand the domains of use of Technolinguistics in Digital Humanities, Digital Ethnography, Digital Governance and Digital Democracy. To train participants about the process of generating digital language corpora to be used in Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and related domains. Target Participants: The workshop is open to academicians and researchers working in Linguistics, Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Speech Technology, Cognitive Science and related disciplines. It is primarily designed for postgraduate students, research fellows, project fellows, young entrepreneurs, young faculties, and early career researchers. It is also open for government officials, corporate professionals and independent researchers working or interested in machine translation and related areas. Workshop Structure: The workshop will be structured into three days, with a balanced mix of lectures, hands-on activities, and group discussions. Resource Persons: Experienced MT experts, NLP scientists, Linguists and Technology experts. Dates: 5-7 March 2025 Time: 10:00 Am to 6:00 PM Venue: ASU Seminar Room, 8th Floor, S.N. Bose Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Organisers: Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
