Workshop - Bengali Workshop School of Languages and Linguistics,Jadavpur University, Kolkata
15th-25th February, 2012

Linguistic Data Consortium For Indian Languages (LDC-IL), Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore in collaboration with Department of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University organized a ten days ‘Orientation cum Training Program on Natural Language Processing’ from 15th February-25th February,2012. The Inaugural function was held at Vivekananda Hall, Jadavpur Univeristy on 15th February 2011. Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University presided over the function and delivered the inaugural address. She has centered her speech on the importance of the usage of computers in this modern world.

Dr. L. Ramamoorthy, Head, LDC-IL gave a brief sketch on the activities of the LDC-IL, CIIL, Ministry of HRD, Mysore. He pointed out the critical situation of the languages of India which are yet to be brought to the next level. He insisted the importance of Machine Translation and the use of language Technology to preserve the endangered languages. He further stressed on the role of linguistics in the development of language technology.

Nearly 60 participants hailing from different universities like Jawaharlal Nehru University, Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, Kalinga Institute of Information and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Vidyasagar University and Guahati University are attending the orientation cum training program. And the experts from different institution like IIT, Kharagpur, IIIT, Hyderabad, Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, SNLTR, Kolkata, Asiatic Society, Kolkata and LDCIL delivered lectures and trained the aspirant. The workshop goal was to disseminate the knowledge of NLP among student community and equip students to work or pursue research in language technology. The main goal of this Orientation cum Training Program on NLP was to promote technology development in Indian Languages.

The Program covered the areas of core Linguistics, AI and NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Linguistic Analysis and NLP Modules and System Development and Challenges. The schedule of the program is as follows-