Computational Engineering and Networking department of Amrita Viswa
Vidhyapeedom organized a one week workshop on Computational Linguistics
and Machine Translation(CLMT) from English to Indian Languages. The head of the
dept. Dr. Soman inaugurated the program in the presence of Dr.
Ramamoorthy (CIIL, Mysore) and Prof. Ramanan (IIIT-H). By hand-overing
the tools developed by CEN research team to the chief guests, Dr. Soman
officially declared their entry to open source. During the workshop,
resourse persons from various institutes delivered their sessions. The
main theme of discussion was challenges and issues of machine
translation in India. Experiences of the people involved in the
development of tools, gave a good understanding of the task to the
participants. Including academicians, research scholars and students
from both linguistics and computational background, around 50 people participated. Manu Madhavan, Nibeesh, Robert Jesuraj and Sreejith C represented SIMPLE groups at CLMT.
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| Audience |
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| Dr. Ramamoorthy during Presidential Address |
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| Robert, Sreejith, Nibeesh and Manu @ Amrita Campus |
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| Sreejith(2nd from left), Dr. Bhaskaran, Dr. Rajendran, and Manu in front of CEN Labs |
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