[Indic-computing-users] ISI-Kolkata hosts workshop on Indian languages

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ECTeam Kolkata (March 3, 2003 * Express Computer)

THE SECOND International Workshop on Technology Development in Indian 
Languages (IWTDIL 2003) was held in Kolkata recently. The three-day 
international workshop was organized by the Computer Vision and Pattern 
Recognition (CVPR) unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).

Eminent scientists from several countries like France, Germany, Japan and 
Canada spoke at the international workshop. Delegates consisting of 
research scientists, faculty members and scholars of premier institutes 
and universities from India and abroad participated in the three-day 
workshop.

CVPR came into existence in 1994 from the erstwhile Centre for 
Knowledge-Based Computing Sciences, funded by the Department of 
Electronics (DoE0 and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

It was formed to promote advanced research and development in the areas of 
computer vision, document processing, image processing and technology 
development in Indian languages.

The major activities of the unit are Optical Character Recognition, 
Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Speech and Signal 
Processing as well as Bio Medical Image Processing.

Scientists urged industry captains to take initiatives of collaborating 
with the research institutes to make the technology available to the 
masses. They also called for the need to set up a dedicated body or single 
window to act as a interface between the industry and academia. (ENDS)

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