[Indic-computing-devel] Speech technology group: Indic -Computing

[Vijay P. S. A. <vi...@ek...>]

Hi,

This is for attention for the groups particularly interested to work on 
speech technology for Indian languages & development of corpus. Let me 
introduce to the group Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash of ISI Kolkatta, who is 
working on development of corpus (both written and spoken) generation in 
Indian languages, language processing, lexical resource generation and
lexicography.

As this was one of the identified gap at the workshop and we had only 
Kokila (& Ravikant) there to represent linguists. I had been in touch 
with Prof. Dash in post workshop communication and he offer to be part 
of the group and take up some responsibility in his domain areas, 
besides bringing in other colleagues from ISI to join in to contribute 
to Indic-Computing.

I have suggested Prof. Dash to take intiative in this area and help to 
develop this group. I would suggest members interested in corpus 
building to get in touch with Prof. dash. I am including the mails 
exchnaged with him as under.

best

vijay


Cc: Prof. Dash may I request you to kindly join Indic-Computing mailing 
lists, you can go to http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ to subscribe


Niladri Sekhar Dash wrote:

 >Dear Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya,
 >
 >Nice to hear you. I will be happy to join the group and think myself
 >fortunate that I can serve with others in the team for common couse of 
our
 >nation.
 >
 >Today, I had a discussion regarding your conference minutes with my HoD,
 >Prof. B.B. Chaudhuri who lamented that he did not prior information about
 >the conference. Otherwise, he might have joined it. Meanwhile, he had a
 >meeting with Pat Hall and Durgesh Rao at Berlin where he had some feed
 >backs about the conference.
 >
 >In fact, we have been doing researches in many areas of language
 >technology (e.g., OCR, spell-checker, morphological
 >processor, speech synthesis, Information retrieval, document
 >processing, font designing, MRDs, etc.) for Bangla and other languages.
 >All these people along with their works can probably join Indic Computing
 >to achieve better results. If your group likes then I can approach 
them to
 >think about it.
 >
 >With best wishes,
 >
 >Niladri
 >======
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya wrote:
 >
 >>Dear Dr. Dash,
 >>
 >>Thanks for your mail and support, we would be very happy if you join the
 >>Indic-Computing effort, the community which has come together is looking
 >>forward to guidance from senior people like you. Your support is much
 >>required and as the areas identified by you in which you would be able
 >>to contribute had been one of the major areas of concerns amongst the
 >>participants at the worksop, I think people would look forward to all
 >>possible help.
 >>
 >>Alow me to post your mail to the Indic computing mailing list, i hope
 >>people owho are working in localisation and developing lexical resources
 >>woould get back to you for your inputs on the work that they are doing.
 >>
 >><<2. Regarding Handbook writing, I can inform you that I have started
 >>writing a book on corpus generation in Indian languages. It is near
 >>completion. This can be a good resource for the people (old and new)
 >>related with this field.>>
 >>
 >>
 >>The Handbook that you are making could also be merged with the one we
 >>already are planning such that developers and people working in the area
 >>can have acccess to all the possible resources. This is an execellent
 >>direction aken by you, we on the other hand are trying to begin in this
 >>direction for the technical handbook.
 >>
 >><<3. If needed I can probably initiate efforts for generation of speech
 >>corpus for Indian languages which can be further transliterated,
 >>transcripted and annotated following a national standard - to be 
designed
 >>by the experts. This area is still unexplored and needs strong 
initiation.>>
 >>
 >>I think this would be perfect, I think we can involve all the people 
working in this area to organise themsleves, could I also suggest foor a 
small workshop of developers and experts in this area, as the one 
suggested by us for OTF.
 >>
 >><<4. Regarding coordination and interaction with lunguists 
communities, I
 >>can ask some of my teachers, colleagues and students to join in the team
 >>to work together.>>
 >>
 >>I think if you can coordiante this effort and if we can form a team, 
it would be wornderful, I would infact request you to join in the Indic 
computing list and offer your help. I shall also post (subject to your 
confirmation) your mail at the list.
 >>
 >><<Kindly, let me know your views on these issues. Thanks.
 >>
 >>With best wishes,>>
 >>
 >>I think we have a lot oof value to add in terms oof standardization 
and developing resources for enabling computing. Your help would be very 
useful. I look forwward to your confirmation so that II can introduce 
your maiil to the group and then start the process of group formation in 
this critical area.
 >>
 >>Regards
 >>
 >>vijay
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>Niladri Sekhar Dash wrote:
 >>
 >>>Dear Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya,
 >>>
 >>>Thanks for your mail. Let me inform you that I went through the
 >>>"Action points Indic Computing Workshop September 2002" and found some
 >>>ereas where I can participate. These are as follows:
 >>>
 >>>1. My area of work is corpus (both written and spoken) generation in
 >>>Indian languages, language processing, lexical resource generation and
 >>>lexicography. I find some to be useful for Indic Computing group.
 >>>
 >>>2. Regarding Handbook writing, I can inform you that I have started
 >>>writing a book on corpus generation in Indian languages. It is near
 >>>completion. This can be a good resource for the people (old and new)
 >>>related with this field.
 >>>
 >>>3. If needed I can probably initiate efforts for generation of speech
 >>>corpus for Indian languages which can be further transliterated,
 >>>transcripted and annotated following a national standard - to be 
designed
 >>>by the experts. This area is still unexplored and needs strong 
initiation.
 >>>
 >>>4. Regarding coordination and interaction with lunguists communities, I
 >>>can ask some of my teachers, colleagues and students to join in the 
team
 >>>to work together.
 >>>
 >>>Kindly, let me know your views on these issues. Thanks.
 >>>
 >>>With best wishes,
 >>>
 >>>Niladri,
 >>>==========
 >
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 > >>>% DR. NILADRI SEKHAR DASH                               %
 > >>>%       MA(CU,Ind),NLP(IITK,Ind),PhD(CU,Ind)            %
 > >>>% Linguist (Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology) %
 > >>>% Consultant (TDIL: MIT, Govt. of India)                %
 > >>>% Consultant (SCiLaHLT: ASI@IT&C, European Commission)  %
 > >>>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > >>>% Office Address:                                       %
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 > >>>% Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit          %
 > >>>% Indian Statistical Institute                          %
 > >>>% 203, Barrakpore Trunk Road                            %
 > >>>% Kolkata 700108, West Bengal, INDIA                    %
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 > >>>% Telegram: STATISTICA                                  %
 > >>>% Phone: (91)(33)578-1832/577-8085/577-2088             %
 > >>>% Extn.: 2850/2852/2858                                 %
 > >>>% Direct line: (91)(33)578-1832                         %
 > >>>% Residential Phone: (91)(33)477-3337                   %
 > >>>% FAX: (91)(33)5776680/5773035                          %
 > >>>% Email: N.S.Dash<ni...@is...>                 %
 > >>>% Email: N.S.Dash<nil...@ho...>            %
 > >>>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > >>>
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