Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian languages ( LDC-IL), CIIL organized a Ten-day Orientation cum Training Programme on Natural Language Processing in collaboration with the School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Training ( KIIT University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 8th February to 17th February,2012.
The programme was organized with certain goals such as to spread the knowledge of NLP among Odia scholars and to create awareness of NLP to promote language technology development in Indian Languages
In the inaugural function was on the 8th February at 10 am in the Conference Hall at the School of Computer Science & Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. The Vice Chancellor of the University Prof. Ashok Kolasker presided over the inaugural session. In his speech he emphasized the importance of the development of computational approach for linguistics phenomena; he also encouraged the students to study linguistics much more. Prof. A.K. Bisoi the Dean of the KIIT University had given the key note speech it was followed by the welcome address by Dr. Anil Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, KIIT University, (also local coordinator). Finally Mr. Pramod Kumar Rout, Senior Research Assistant, LDC-IL had given the vote of thanks.
Nearly 60 participants (both scholars & lecturers) participated in the Orientation Programme. The participants were from universities like Utkal, Ravenshaw, Berhempur, Hi-tech Institute of Education, Sambalpur, KIIT & IIT Kharagpur, Some of the Students were from Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Manipur (all are KIIT student) who had taken keen interest to participate in all the days. The experts were from University of Hyderabad, IIT Bhubaneswar, KIIT University, Ravenshaw University, Utkal University, Berhampur University and some of the LDC-IL experts had also given lectures on NLP.
Classes started from 8th February at 11.45 am onwards. Every day 4 classes in two sessions were held and duration of each class was 1.15 hours. Lectures covered topics from Core linguistics, Corpus linguistics, language learning, Traditional grammar, Odia Lexicography & NLP module development and challenges.
The detailed schedule of the programme was as the table below.
Day 1 (8th Feb, 2012) |
|
Expert |
Time |
Topic |
|
10.00am |
Inaugural Session |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Prof. P. Mohanty |
11.45 |
Odia Morphology |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Prof. P. Mohanty |
2.00pm |
Odia Morphology |
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
Shahnawaz |
3.30 pm |
Morphological Analysis |
Day 2 (9th Feb, 2012) |
|
Prof. P. Mohanty |
10.15am |
Odia Syntax |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Prof. P. Mohanty |
11.45am |
Odia Syntax |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
2.00pm |
Parsing & Chunking |
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
Sahid |
3.30pm |
Basic Concept of AI &NLP/CL |
Day 3 (10th Feb, 2012) |
|
Prof. P. Mohanty |
10.15am |
Odia Semantics |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Prof. P. Mohanty |
11.45am |
Odia Semantics |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Sahid |
2.00pm |
Approaches to NLP
Computational Grammar/Deductive Approach
Data Driven/Statistical/Inductive Approach |
|
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
|
Sahid |
3.30pm |
Corpus (Text, Speech & Sign) - Concept, Balancing & Classification.
Corpus Annotation-Concept, types &Application |
Day 4 (11th Feb, 2012) |
|
Prof. P. Mohanty |
10.15am |
Odia Phonetics |
|
11.30 am |
Tea Break |
Prof. P. Mohanty |
11.45am |
Odia Phonetics |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Dr. Prafulla Tripathy |
2.00pm |
Identifying Odia POS |
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
Dr. Prafulla Tripathy |
3.30pm |
Learning a new Indian Language |
Day 5 (13th Feb, 2012) |
|
Dr. Santosh Tripathy |
10.15pm |
Traditional Grammar |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
11.45am |
ASR-Concept, Application & Challenges |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Dr. R. Balabantray |
2.00pm |
Odia Morphology: Computational Approach |
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
Dr. R. Balabantray |
3.30pm |
Odia Spell Checker: Concept & Applications, Development & Challenges |
Day 6 (14th Feb, 2012) |
|
Prof. Girish Ch. Mishra |
10.15am |
Machine Translation |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Prof. Girish Ch. Mishra |
11.45am |
TTS-Concept, application and Challenges |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
2.00pm |
TTS-Concept, Application, Development & Challenges |
|
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
|
Sriram Chaudhury |
3.30pm |
MT-Concept, Application and Development |
Day 7 (15th Feb, 2012) |
|
Dr. Anil Ku. Singh |
10.15am |
Tool Demonstration |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Dr. Anil Ku. Singh |
11.45am |
OCR-Concept, Application, Development & Challenges |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Sriram Chaudhury |
2.00pm |
Encoding –Concept, of Font & Encoding, ASCII, ISCII & Unicode |
|
3.15 |
Tea Break |
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
3.30pm |
Corpus analysis tools (Frequency, N-gram, KWIC-KWOC, Concordances, etc.) |
Day 8 (16th Feb, 2012) |
|
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
10.15am |
POS (annotation/tagging) |
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
Dr. Anil Kr. Singh |
11.45am |
Machine Learning (ML)- Basic Statics & Some Statistical Approaches ML (Decision Trees & Decision Lists, HMM, SVM &Neural Network) |
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
Dr. Natabar Satapathy |
2.00pm |
Odia Lexicon Tradition |
|
3.15pm |
Tea Break |
Dr. Natabar Satapathy |
3.30pm |
|
Day 9 (17th Feb, 2012) |
|
Dr. Sadananda Naik |
10.15am |
Odia Writing Tradition and Reforms |
|
|
11.30am |
Tea Break |
|
Pramod |
11.45am |
Odia Morphological Analyzer & Suffix Stripping Model |
|
Kshirod |
12.15pm |
Speech Segmentation & Annotation |
|
|
1.00pm |
Lunch Break |
|
Santosh |
2.00pm |
Odia Parts of Speech Annotation |
|
|
2.45pm |
Tea Break |
|
|
3.00pm |
Practice Session |
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