Schedule | The Benchmarking Conference | LDC-IL

Conference Schedule

20-21 March 2025 | Mysore, Karnataka

Inaugural Session (10:00 - 11:15 AM)
  • Invocation: Chetan Baji
  • Lighting of lamp
  • Welcome Address: Dr. Narayan Choudhary
  • Theme Introduction: Prof. Umarani Pappuswami
  • Inaugural Address: Prof. N Deiva Sundaram
  • General Remarks: Prof. PRD Fernandes
  • Release of Datasets: Dr. Rejitha KS
  • Release of LDC-IL Applications: Dr. Narayan Choudhary
  • Presidential Address: Prof. Shailendra Mohan
  • Vote of Thanks: Amom Nandaraj Meetei
Tea Break
Plenary Session - 1 (11:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

Topic: Project Vaani: Capturing the Language for an Inclusive Digital India

Speaker: Dr. Prasant Kumar Ghosh, Department of Electrical Engineering, (IISc Bangalore)

Paper Presentations
  • Chairperson: Prof. P.R.D. Fernandes
  • 12:30 - 12:50: "Benchmarking MT Systems: A Public Tool for the Evaluation of MT Systems" - Teena Verma
  • 12:50 - 1:10: "Formative Evaluation of Generative AI in Kannada Sentiment Analysis" - Rashmi T.
Lunch Break
Paper Presentations (2:00 - 3:40 PM)
  • Chairperson: Dr. Elanttamil
  • 2:00 - 2:20: "A System for Automatic Translation of Punjabi Text into Indian Sign Language (ISL) Using Synthetic Animations" - Gurdeep Singh (Virtual Presentation)
  • 2:20 - 2:40: "Project BoLI: Towards a Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating NLP and Speech Systems in Indian Languages" - Ritesh Kumar etal (Dr. Benu Pareek will present)
  • 2:40 - 3:00: "Fast and Small Footprint Hybrid HMM-HiFiGAN Based System for Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages" - Sudhanshu Srivastava
  • 3:00 - 3:20: "Developing A Benchmarking Tool for Indian Sentiment Analysis models" - Arunava Kar
  • 3:20 - 3:40: "Multilingual Indic Real-Time Chat System" - Harpreet Singh Anand (Mr. Amulya Ratna Dash will present)
Tea Break
Paper Presentations (4:00 - 5:00 PM)
  • Chairperson: Prof. N. Deiva Sundaram
  • 4:00 - 4:20: "Implicature Benchmark for Hindi" - Kaveri Anuranjana
  • 4:20 - 4:40: "A Comparative Benchmarking Study of Online Machine Translation Systems for Konkani" - Alvyn Abranches (Joel Luis will present)
  • 4:40 - 5:00: "KonkABS: Evaluating Low-Resource Benchmark for Aspect-based Summarization in Konkani using Translated OASum Dataset with LLMs" - Alvyn Abranches
Cultural Program (5:00 - 6:30 PM)

Plenary Session - 2 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

Topic: Shodhmapak: A Plagiarism Detection Tool for Indian Languages

Speaker: Dr. Jitesh Pubreja, Department of Computer Science, (Punjabi University, Patiala)

Tea Break
Panel Discussion (11:15 AM - 1:15 PM)

Topic: Methods of Objective and Third-Party Benchmarking of Public Use AI Tools in Indian Languages

Panelists:

  • Mr. Amitabh Nag (Bhashini)
  • Ms. Pragya Misra (OpenAI)
  • Mr. Megh Umekar (Google)
  • Mr. Ashish Anand Kulkarni (Ola Krutrim)
  • Prof. Rohit Saluja (IIT Mumbai)
Lunch Break
Paper Presentations (2:00 - 3:20 PM)
  • Chairperson: Prof. Umarani Pappuswamy
  • 2:00 - 2:20: "Building and evaluating an OCR System for the Sharda Script" - Dr. Nimrita Koul
  • 2:20 - 2:40: "The Role of Technology in Enhancing Language Learning outcomes: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Technological Methods" - Dr. Sana Niazi (Virtual presentation)
  • 2:40 - 3:00: "Evaluation and Benchmarking of AI Applications in Indian Languages: A Critical Examination" - Sragdhara Bhatt (Seema)
  • 3:00 - 3:20: "TAM-ORC: Tamil Adaptive Morphological OCR with Deep Learning-based Benchmarking for Script-specific Challenges" - Dr. Kanimozhi Suguna (Virtual presentation)
Tea Break
Paper Presentations (3:40 - 4:40 PM)
  • Chairperson: Dr. Tariq Khan
  • 3:40 - 4:00: "Benchmarking of Machine Translation system in the light of Government Sector" - Ms. Pushpa M
  • 4:20 - 4:40: "Comparative Analysis of Query-by-Example Algorithms in Speech Retrieval" - Shlagha Chouhan1
Valedictory Session (4:40 PM onwards)