India2011- Digital Linguistics

"In October 2011, NTNU will arrange a week-long event India 2011, with India as the theme. The focus will be on broad cooperation in culture, research, higher education and business."

The present arrangement between the University of Hyderabad and the Institute of Languages and Communication Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages at NTNU has Indian languages as its focus. It is part of the NTNU's India week.

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India is a continent of many languages. Ethnologue refers to 452 listed languages of India. The nation is not only rich in languages. Grounded on work dating back to Pāṇini, Indian linguistics has had a significant influence on the development of linguistics up to today.

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Workshop on Digital Language Description, Knowledge Representation and Formal Linguistics

In a workshop on Digital Language Description, Knowledge Representation and Formal Linguistics, linguists from Hyderabad and Trondheim will work together on the representation and formalisation of some of salient aspects of selected languages from the Dravidian, the Indo-Aryan and the Austro-Asiatic language families of India.

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Using natural language processing tools and linguistic web-technology developed at University at Hyderabad and at NTNU, we will create small research corpora which we will annotate for salient linguistic properties with the goal of deriving Attribute Value Matrix Notations from these annotations.