Friday, 10 t h Dec, 2010 Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU Saturda, January 9, 2010 0830 - 0930: Breakfast & Registration 0930 - 1130: Session 1: Inaugural session • Dr Girish Nath Jha , Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU , Welcome address, Seminar theme • Prof Bal Ram Singh , University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, Scientifying the Sanskrit vs. Sanskritizing the Science(inaugural address) • Prof Ramanath Sharma , University of Hawaii, USA, Rule interaction, blocking and derivation in Pāini (Keynote speech) • Prof V. K. Jain , Registrar, JNU, Presidential address and release of seminar proceedings • Chairperson , Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, Vote of Thanks Observer: Dr Maureen P. Hall , University of Massachusetts. Dartmouth, USA 1130-1200: Tea 1200 - 1300 : Session 2: Plenary Talk 1: Chair: Prof Bal Ram Singh , University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Speaker: Prof Saroja Bhate , Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) Topic: Anubandha s of P āini and Exegetics of Sanskrit grammar (to be read by Dr Malhar Kulkarni, IIT Bombay) Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha , JNU Observer: Manji Bhadra , research student, JNU 1300-1400 : Lunch 1400-1600 : Session 3: Lexical Resources Chair: Manoj Jain , Scientist “E”, TDIL, MCIT • Abhinandan S P and Shrisha Rao , I.I.I.T. Bangalore o Citation Matching in Sanskrit Corpora Using Local Alignment • Diwakar Mani , Jawaharlal Nehru University o RDBMS based Lexical Resource for Indian Heritage: the case of Mah ābh ārata • Sivaja S. Nair and Amba Kulkarni , University of Hyderabad o The Knowledge Structure in Amarako śa • Malhar Kulkarni, Irawati Kulkarni, Chaitali Dangarikar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya , I.I.T. Bombay o Gloss in Sanskrit Wordnet Coordinator: Dr. Rajnish Kumar Mishra , JNU Observer: Madhav Gopal , research student, JNU 1600-1615: Tea 1615–1715 : Session 4: Plenary Talk 2 Chair: Brendan Gillon , McGill University, Canada Speaker: Prof Navjyoti Singh , I.I.I.T., Hyderabad Topic : Ontology of Sanskrit verbs Coordinator: Dr. Ram Nath Jha , JNU Observer: Subhash Chandra , research student, JNU 1830-1930: Cultural program (Bh āsa’s play kar abh āram ) at SSS Auditorium 1930 : Dinner: S&A Lawns Saturday, 11 t h Dec, 2010 Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU 0830 -0930: Breakfast & Registration 0930-1100: Session 5: Corpora annotation and speech Chair: Prof Sonajharia Minz , Dean, School of Computer & Systems Sciences, JNU • Madhav Gopal, Diwakar Mishra, Priyanka Singh , Jawaharlal Nehru University o Evaluating Tagsets for Sanskrit • Baiju Mahananda, Raju C M S, Ramalinga Reddy Patil, Narayana Jha, Shrinivasa Varakhedi, Kishore Prahallad o Building a Prototype Text to Speech for Sanskrit • Oliver Hellwig, University of Berlin, Germany o Performance of a lexical and POS tagger for Sanskrit Coordinator: Dr. R Chandrashekhar , JNU Observer: Diwakar Mishra , research student, JNU 1100-1200: Session 6: Sub-sentential processing Chair: Prof K. V. Subbarao . Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities, University of Hyderabad • Anil Kumar, Vipul Mittal, Amba Kulkarni , University of Hyderabad o Sanskrit Compound Processor • Peter M Scharf , Brown University, USA o Rule-blocking and Forward-looking Conditions in the Computational Modeling of P āinian Derivation Coordinator: Dr. Hari Ram Mishra , JNU Observer: Sachin Kumar , research student, JNU 1200-1300: Session 7: Plenary Talk 4 Chair: Prof Mithilesh Chaturvedi , HOD, Dept of Sanskrit, Delhi University Speaker: Prof B. N. Patnaik, I.I.T. Kanpur (retd) Topic: Traditional Indian and Modern Western Approaches to Figurative Meaning: A Comparative Perspective Coordinator: Dr. Santosh Kumar Shukla , JNU Observer: Esha Banerjee , research student, JNU 1330-1400 hrs: Lunch 1400-1530 hrs: Session 8: sentential processing – syntax, semantics Chair: Ayesha Kidwai , Center of Linguistics, School of Language Literature & Culture Studies, JNU • Amba Kulkarni, Sheetal Pokar, Devanand Shukl , University of Hyderabad o Designing a Constraint Based Parser for Sanskrit • Rajesh Tavva and Navjyoti Singh , I.I.I.T. Hyderabad o Generative Graph Grammar of Neo-Vai śeika Formal Ontology (NVFO) • Malhar Kulkarni, Anuja Ajotikar, Tanuja Ajotikar, Dipesh Katira, Chinmay Dharurkar and Chaitali Dangarikar o Headedness and Modification in Ny āya morphosyntactic analysis: Towards a bracket-parsing model Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha , JNU Observer: Ritesh Kumar , research student, JNU 1530–1545 hrs: Tea 1545-1645: Session 9: Plenary Talk 4 Chair: Prof Sudha Rani Pandey , VC, Uttaranchal Sanskrit University, Haridwar Speaker: Prof V. N. Jha , former Director, CASS, Pune Coordinator: Dr. Ram Nath Jha, JNU Observer: Avanti Nioding , research student, JNU 1700-1830 hrs: Invited Session 10: Sanskrit śāstr ārtha : śabdavic āra Chair: Prof R.C Panda , Banaras Hindu University • Dr Shrinivas Varkhedi , Director, Sanskrit Academy, Hyderabad • Dr Santosh Shukla , Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU • Dr Hari Ram Mishra , Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU • Prof R.C. Pandey , Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Delhi • Dr Lalit Tripathi , Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Allahabad Coordinator: Dr. C.Upender Rao , JNU Observer: Paritosh Das , research student, JNU 1830-1930 hrs : Session 11: Plenary talk 5 Chair: Dr Gora Mohanty , Director, Mimirtech Technologies, Delhi Speaker : Dr V N Shukla , CDAC, Noida Coordinator: Dr. Ajay Mishra , Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi Observer: Archana Mishra , research student, JNU 1930 : Poster Gallery & Dinner Sunday, 12/12/2010 Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU 0830-0930 hrs: Breakfast & Registration 0930-1100 hrs : Session 12: Machine Translation & ambiguity resolution Chair: Dr Malhar Kulkarni, I.I.T. Bombay • Brendan S. Gillon , McGill University, Canada o Linguistic investigations into ellipsis in classical Sanskrit • Sobha L, Pravin Pralayankar , AU-KBC,Anna University, Chennai o Anaphora Resolution Algorithm for Sanskrit • Preeti Shukla, Devanand Shukl, Amba Kulkarni , University of Hyderabad o Vibhakti Divergence between Sanskrit and Hindi Coordinator: Dr. Naveen Kumar Jha , MLSU, Udaipur Observer: Nripendra Pathak , research student, JNU 1100-1200 hrs: Session 13: Plenary talk 6 Speaker: Prof. Peter M Scharf , Dept of Classics, Brown University, USA Chair: Abhijit Datta , IBM India Coordinator: Dr. Maureen P Hall , University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Observer: Baldev Ram Khandoliyan , research student, JNU 1200-1330 hrs: Session 14: Simulations of Panini grammar Chair: Prof Amba Kulkarni , HOD, Dept of Sanskrit, University of Hyderabad • Wiebke Petersen and Silke Hamann , Heinrich-Heine University, Germany o On the generalizabilty of Panini's Praty āhāra techniques to other languages • Anand Mishra , University, Heidelberg, Germany o Modelling A ādhy āyī - An Approach based on the Methodology of Ancillary Disciplines (Ved āga) • Sridhar Subbanna, Varakhedi Srinivasa , RSVP, Tirupati & Sanskrit Academy, Hyderabad o Asiddhatva Principle in Computational Model of A ādhy āay ī Coordinator: Dr. Hari Ram Mishra , JNU Observer: Kuldeep Shukla , research student, JNU 1330-1430: Lunch 1430–1630 hrs : Session 15: Valedictory Session Chair: Prof. Peter M Scharf , Dept of Classics, Brown University, USA Speakers : Prof Kapil Kapoor , former Rector, JNU Prof Radhavallabh Tripathi , VC, RSS, Delhi Prof Vacaspati Upadhyay , VC, SLBSRSP, Delhi Prof V. N. Jha , former Director, CASS, Pune Prof George Cardona , University of Pennsylvania, USA Coordinator: Dr. Girish Nath Jha , JNU Observer: Rajneesh Kumar Pandey , research student, JNU 1630-1700 hrs: Conclusion and vote of thanks: Dr Girish Nath Jha , Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU 1900 hrs: Dinner .