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Weekly Academic Talk Series:

Topic: A Presentation on Postpositions in Reference to Bengali WordNet (Challenges in Putting Postpositions as Synsets in the Bengali WordNet).
Speaker: Ms Anansa Roy.
Date: 15 May 2024.
Place: LRU Lab, ISI, Kolkata.

Dr. Debasmita Mukherjee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick, Canada visited the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on 14 May 2024 for possible collaboration and joint research with us in the area of humanization of ChatBots within the broad domain of Deep learning driven human-technology for system safety and natural language communication. It is a matter of great joy to learn that our linguistic knowledge, NLP Expertise and scientific understandings appeared to be strong enough to contribute in a large scale to make the proposed research project a great success! Thank and regards to all. Namaskar!

LRU Weekly Talk Series:
Topic: Lexical and Semantic Constraints in Compiling Sabar Dictionary.
Speaker: Ms Asha Khatun
Date: 29 April 2024
Place: LRU Lab, ISI, Kolkata.

Farewell to our Section Officer Shri Jayanta Das. Date: 23 April 2024. Place: LRU lab, ISI, Kolkata.

Date: 19 April 2024 (Friday)
Topic: An overview on Bengali WordNet
Speaker: Sreejoni Kundu
Venue: Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Benefits: Some new insights and ideas.

Weekly departmental talk on research and new findings. Today's (10th April 2024: Wednesday) speaker was Debjani Roychowdhury and the topic was "Exploring the Platter of Bangladesh: A Linguistic and Sociocultural Analysis of Bengali Cuisine Texts". It was a quite interesting talk with some new ideas and information. We appreciate it. Cheers!

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: An Analysis of the Kheria Sabar Dataset Collected during the Fieldwork
Speaker: Puja Gorai
Date: 28.03.2024

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Corpus of Bengali Cuisine Texts and Multidimensional Linguistic Analysis of the Corpus
Speaker: Nabanita Das
Date: 15.03.2024

Coming soon....

We are happy to share some of the pictures of a very successful Linguistic Field Survey of LRU, ISI, Kolkata carried out in Kheria Sabar community in Purulia, West Bengal, India, 26-30 December 2023 for the purpose of documentation and digitization of Free Discourse Texts and Folk Texts of this endangered tribal community.

Location: Rajnoagarh, Kuda, Bengthupi, Mendli villages of Purulia, West Bengal.

Team Members: Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash, Meghna Majumder, Nirnoy Dutta, Subham Chakraborty, Puja Gorai, Shrestha Gudaba, Pallab Sur and Jayanta Das.
Special thanks to Shri Prasanta Raksh*t and Shri Jaladhar Sabar.

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Problems Faced During the Population of Synonyms and Usage Sentences in Bengali WordNet
Speaker: Puja Gorai
Date: 29.11.2023

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Kinship Terms in Kheria Sabar Speech Community
Speaker: Subham Chakraborty
Date: 02.11.2023

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Time Never Stands Still: Exploring the Nature and Role of Temporal Expressions in Bangla
Speaker: Tanisha Saha
Date: 06.10.2023

Call for Participation for 2-Day National Seminar on Scientific and Technical Terms in Social Sciences during 21 and 22 December 2023 under the aegis of the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terms (CSTT), Dept. of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India.

Registration Form Link: https://forms.gle/KmFshAAsPQcLVKVh9

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Survey of Digital Dictionary Making Tools & Techniques with Special Focus on Kheria Sabar Language
Speaker: Pallab Sur
Date: 15.09.2023

Happy Teachers Day, 2023 is celebrated with our most respected Sir Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash at the Lab of our Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Using Praat for Speech Analysis
Speaker: Meghna Majumder
Date: 17.08.2023

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Development of Tri-lingual Digital Dictionary: Bengali-Hindi-English
Speaker: Agnisha Majumder
Date: 05.08.2023

The Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata is very much happy to share the digital e-book 'Sabar Shabdamala' (শবর শব্দমালা), which is successfully published online today for global access. It is accessible from the following link:
https://online.pubhtml5.com/rpjmh/wyti/ =1

The 'Sabar Shabdamala' (শবর শব্দমালা) is a collection of Sabar words which are supported with images, and Bengali and English conceptual equivalents. The lexical database is collected through several linguistic field surveys from the Kheria Sabar speech community living in Purulia district, West Bengal, India. It is designed and compiled by the LRU research team in the form of a wordbook for the first genetation of Kheria Sabar learners and general users. Special thanks to the entire team of the Paschimbanga Kheria Sabar Kalyan Samity, Purulia and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Govt. of India. We earnestly invite all to access this resource. Thank you and regards.

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The Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata in collaboration with the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (PCLS), University of Reading, UK organized a 2-day International Training Workshop on “Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL-2023)” during 20-21 July 2023. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Arpita Bose of the University of Reading, UK as Principal Investigator and Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash of LRU, ISI, Kolkata as Co-Principal Investigator. The workshop was a part of the Leverhulme Small Research Grants awarded to them by the British Academy, UK in 2022. Eminent scientists from India and abroad, selected students of Linguistics, research scholars and faculty members from different universities and clinical research laboratories from all over the country joined this workshop and collectively worked towards the development of a comprehensive assessment protocol for bilingual aphasic patients in South Asian languages. Special emphasis was given to testing protocol, text battery development, data from normal control, basic cognitive screening, data collection patients, data management, archiving, annotation, processing and analysis, data sharing and communication platforms, implications for research, social outreach, and other relevant topics. This pioneering multi-centered, interdisciplinary and international project focused on five Indian languages, namely, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. Researchers and clinical scientists from UK, USA, Kolkata, Manipal, Chennai, Bangaluru, Indore, Delhi, and Trivandrum have taken part to make this workshop a grand success, which desires to play a crucial role in developing better assessment and rehabilitation mechanisms appropriate for bilingual aphasic people of South Asian countries.

News Report:
International Training Workshop funded by British Academy on “Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL)” during July 20-21, 2023 at ISI, Kolkata

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The British Academy International Training Workshop on "Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL)," jointly organised by the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, and the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK

International Training Workshop funded by British Academy on “Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL)” during July 20-21, 2023 at ISI, Kolkata International Training Workshop funded by British Academy on “Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL)” during July 20-21, 2023 organised by Linguistic Resea

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: WordNet as a resource tool for aphasia related psycholinguistic disorders
Speaker: Shrestha Gudaba
Date: 14.07.2023

Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute proudly announces that the British Academy International Training Workshop on "Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL)," jointly organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, and School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK, will be held on July 20th to July 21st, 2023, at LRU, ISI Kolkata.

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Different Approaches of Word Sense Disambiguation
Speaker: Nirnoy Dutta
Date: 04.07.2023

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: A short tutorial on Praat
Speaker: Puja Gorai, Subham Chakraborty
Date: 23.06.2023

LRU Weekly Talk Session
Topic: Headedness in Bengali Group Verbs
Speaker: Srija Deb, Meghna Majumder
Date: 16.06.2023

The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Education, Govt of India has organized a 5-Day meeting for the preparation of “Fundamental Glossary of Mathematics (English-Hindi-Bengali)” at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during 8-12 May 2023. The meeting was held under the guidance of Officer-in-Charge Mr. Vijay Raj Singh Shekhawat, Assistant Director, CSTT, New Delhi. The local Cordinaror of the meeting was Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash, Professor-in-Charge of the Social Sciences Division and Head of Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Prof. Girish Nath Jha, Chairman of the CSTT virtually addressed the members of the meeting on the first day. The expert committee constituted, Prof. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay (Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Prof. Smarajit Bose (Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Prof. Subenoy Chakraborty (Dept. of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Prof. Suvendu Kar (Dept. of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Prof. Seema Sarkar Mondal (Dept. of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur), Prof. Smarajit Kar (Dept. of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur ), Dr. Samir Karmakar (School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata), and Dr. Anusrita Mondal (Dept. of Sanskrit, Surendranath College, Kolkata). The successful development of the glossary will be quite useful for development of advanced mathematics textbooks, study materials and academic books in modern Bengali.

Conference Name: IEEE sponsored Third International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communications and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT 2023)

Venue: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus (SSTC), Bhilai, Chattisgarh, India

Date: 05-06 January 2023

Paper Title: "Developing an Online Platform for Multimodal Lexical Learning for the Bengali Learners"

Authors: Niladri Sekhar Dash, Srija Deb, Nirnoy Dutta, Meghna Majumder, Amrita Bhattacharyya, Subhadip Mondal and Alok Ranjan Pal

Conference Name: International Conference on Language, Literature, and Folklore (ICOLLAF) in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore

Venue: Department of Linguistics and Literature, School of Humanities and Liberal Arts in Cluster University of Jammu, India

Date: 28-30 January 2023

Paper Title: "Looking into the nature of Linguistic Problems observed in Machine Translation while translating from Hindi Bengali : Some Case-based Analysis and Solutions"

Authors: Suvam Sen, Abhishikta Sadhu, Agnisha Majumder and Rakiba Sultana