[Oriya-group] First Call: Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages

[Dr. Rajat Kumar Mohanty]

Dear Researchers,

We are glad to announce that we will be holding the "First National
Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages" from 31st
March to 4th April, 2006 at IIT Bombay. The event is motivated by the
international trend of going deeper and deeper in shallow processing of
natural languages, and the fact that Indian languages show unique and
richly complex behavior in morphology, word-order, compounding, etc.

This is a unique event- first of its kind in the world, if we may say so.
A preliminary call for papers is attached. Alternatively, you may like to 
visit the MSPIL-06 Homepage: http://www.cfilt.ac.in/~mspil-06

Eminent researchers have shown great interest in the event. They will
deliver invited speeches, and are from both academia and industry (IITs,
IISc, TIFR, IIIT, DIT, JNU, DU, CIEFL, HCU, Google, Microsoft Research,
IBM Research, etc.). Students and researchers from 40 institutes across
the country including 5 universities from the neighboring countries will
present focused papers and demos. There will be a panel discussion to
chart out the course of action in Indian Language Processing in the coming
years. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the
Symposium, if the completed camera-ready copy is received positively
before 24 March 2006 in the specified format. A few selected papers
presented by authors at the symposium are likely to be edited in a
Research Volume.

The MSPIL-06 organizing committee will provide free local hospitality
including local accommodation to the outstation speakers during the main
symposium period (i.e., 2-4 April 06). All outstation student-speakers
will be supported for their travel (i.e., SL class Railway fare in the
shortest route). Efforts are being made to provide travel support (i.e.,
II-AC Railway Fare) to the non-local speakers who do not have any
institutional support.  It may be noted that through well-informed
planning sufficiently in advance, one could avail of airfares that are
sometimes less than II-AC railway fare. We cannot provide travel support
to the participants coming from abroad.

We look forward to see your active participation in the symposium. For
further  details, please visit: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~mspil-06

With regards and best wishes,
Dr. Rajat Mohanty
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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Dr. Rajat Kumar Mohanty
Project Linguist
Development Gateway Foundation ICT Research and Training Centre
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai- 400 076
India.

Tel: 91-22-2576-4906/4728/4729(O), 91-9323184886(M), 91-22-39526211(R)
Fax: 91-22-25720290
Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~rkm
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