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Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL)

Ministry of Education, Government of India

Oriya NLP Workshop Report
(School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Training ( KIIT University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha),
8th to 17th February, 2012.

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 11.45am 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
11.30 am 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
11.30 am 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
3.15pm 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)
11.30 am 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
11.30 am 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