Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies

19/02/2023

We are very happy to announce that Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra in collaboration with K.M. Institute of Hindi and Linguistics and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore is celebrating the International Mother Language Day and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages by organising an event series "Language Technologies for Mother Tongues of India (LT4MT)" on February 21 - 23, 2023

For detailed schedule, visit the event website

Language Technologies for Mother Tongues of India

07/07/2022

We are now accepting applications for admission to M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics. For more information, please visit the following link https://www.ctrans.in/cl
Deadline for application - August 14, 2022

07/07/2022

KMI and CTRANS is accepting applications for its various UG and PG programs in Linguistics. Apply by 14 August, 2022 at the following link -
http://dbrau.ac.in/Admission/

28/05/2022

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra is inviting applications for regular faculty positions in Linguistics at all three levels. Please visit the following link for more details and application -
http://dbrau.org.in/Advertisment.aspx

Deadline for application: June 7, 2022.

01/05/2022

We are hiring 4 (Computational) Linguists in the SpeeD-TB project, sponsored by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India. Interested candidates are invited to apply for one or more of these full-time, contractual positions.
Deadline for application: May 16, 2022
Please visit the project page for more info and application:

Advertisement for Recruitment of Staff under the SpeeD-TB Project Advt No: SpeeD/01/22 Date: April 25, 2022

11/03/2022

We are now inviting applications for admission to PhD program in Linguistics. For more information about the available specialisations and filling up the online form, please visit the following link -
https://www.ctrans.in/admission/phd-admission-2022
Important Dates
Last date for online form submission: 21st March, 2022
Last date for submission of Hard copy : 26th of March, 2022
Entrance Test: 3rd April, 2022

PhD in Linguistics Admission - 2022

18/12/2021

We are presenting a demo of our new web-based application - Linguistic Field Data Management and Analysis System [LiFe] at ICON-2021 tomorrow Dec 19, 2021 at 10 am. If you are a linguist working on documenting and archiving endangered or lesser-known Indian languages and building dictionaries, sketch grammars or a computational linguist working on building resources and technologies for these languages, this application is for you. It allows you to - (a) store and manage your field data; (b) build lexicons; (c) publish your data as open linked data; (d) work collaboratively on documenting a language; (e) build technologies that could automate the tasks related to language documentation and do much more.

Join in the demo at the following link to know more -
https://meet.google.com/vwg-wqgm-ndb

Or you may request for an alpha test version of the app by joining in our Google Group - https://groups.google.com/g/lifeapp

Karthick Narayanan Ayesha Kidwai Anvita Abbi Kavita Rastogi Bornini Lahiri Sujoy Sarkar Tariq Khan Meiraba Takhellambam Pramod Kumar

03/10/2021

We, under our ComMA project, are organising a Shared Task on Multilingual Gender Biased and Communual Language Identification at ICON-2021. The languages for which we are providing the dataset include Meitei, Bangla and Hindi (all code-mixed with English and possibly other languages). Unlike most of the other tasks in the domain, which are generally presented as a monolingual binary / multi-class classification task, we have opened this challenge as a multilingual, structured classification task (mainly to understand intersectionality of various disadvantaged / protected identities in a multilingual setup). You could get more details on the task website or on the task's CodaLab page -
https://sites.google.com/view/comma-at-icon2021/home
https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/35482

The training data is already available and the deadline for submitting results on the test data is November 7, 2021.

The ComMA Project's Shared Task on Multilingual Gender Biased and Communal Language Identification @ ICON 2021: 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing National Institute of Technology - Silchar December 16-19, 2021

31/08/2021

We are now accepting applications for admission to M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics. For more information, please visit the following link https://www.ctrans.in/cl
Deadline for application - September 15, 2021

11/03/2021

The first part of SIGMORPHON’s sixth installment of its inflection generation shared task will focus on typologically diverse languages. In this shared task, participants will design a model that learns to generate morphological inflections from a lemma and a set of morphosyntactic features of the target form. Each language in the task has its own training, development, and test splits. Training and development splits contain triples, each consisting of a lemma, a target form, and a set of morphological features, provided in the UniMorph format. Test splits only provide lemmas and morphological tags: your model will need to predict the missing target form.

The model should be general enough to work for natural languages of any typological patterning. For example, Tagalog verbs exhibit circumfixation; thus, a model with a strong inductive bias towards suffixing will likely not work well for Tagalog.

Through the sustained effort of 80+ people, our group was able to add about 50 new languages to the UniMorph resources as well as curate and canonicalize existing resources. During the first phase of the task, we have released data for the 35 languages and others will follow in a month’s time or so.

You could register for the task here -
https://forms.gle/tu4tX648F9kA9eps7

For more info, please visit the task website -
https://github.com/sigmorphon/2021Task0 -1-generalization-across-typologically-diverse-languages

Contribute to sigmorphon/2021Task0 development by creating an account on GitHub.

06/03/2021

Third Workshop on Research in Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP
(SIGTYP2021)
(co-located with NAACL 2021; June, 10th 2021; Mexico City, Mexico)

The aim of the third edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and
a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research,
multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development
of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at
raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting
and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at
introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster
research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active
community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input
from leading researchers in linguistic typology.

Deadline for paper submission- March 15, 2021

For more details and submission instructions, please visit the workshop website-

SIGTYP