Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) was setup by the Government of India in October 1961,for the purpose of evolving uniform terminology in Hindi and other modern Indian languages and for production of text books, supplementary reading material and reference literature in all disciplines so as to facilitate smooth, change over of medium of instruction in universities. It functions under the ministry of HRD (Department of Higher Education), Government of India. The main activities of CSTT include organization of terminology work shops/orientation programs and computerization of terminology and its access on the website. Production of university level books, digest, monographs and definitional dictionaries and journals are also important activities of the CSTT.
About the Seminar We are in the middle of technological revolution nucleated around information & communication technology (ICT). ICT is an enabling technology. It can ensure transparency of information. ICT enabled governance, learning, health - care & business will thus spur Socio-economic development at extraordinary pace. Advances in human language technology will offer nearly universal access to information & services to more and more people in their own languages. Today most of the content on the web is in English, which is spoken by only 8-10% of the world population. India is a multi-lingual, multi-script country. There are hundreds of dialects spoken in various parts of the country. Then there are languages, which have only oral tradition. Besides a large portion of the Indian population is illiterate. Therefore for wide spread proliferation of the benefits of ICT to the masses, there is a need for the development of necessary technologies (both H/w and S/w) for content creation & localization in Indian languages. To accomplish this objective already several initiatives have been taken at the academic, institutional, corporate, Government & individual levels. However for achieving the objective of digital unite & knowledge for all we need to develop information processing tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Indian languages and to create & access multi-lingual knowledge resources / content, major initiatives are also required towards localization, standardization & utilization of open source software. The forthcoming national seminar is to take stock of the situation and to provide a forum for exchange of the views on challenges and strategies associated with technological development for content creation & localization in Indian languages. Theme of Seminar 1.Digitization of Indian languages and content creation & localization 2.Standardization & machine translation 3.Resources for the content creation in Indian Languages 4.Man machine Interface System 5.Digital Unite: Emerging Areas I.Machine related developments II.Resources: Natural Languages processing III.Policy Issues & Road –map General Awareness & Development of Interactive knowledge centers in every village Date and Venue 1-2 December (Friday & Saturday) 2006. Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology How to reach RKGIT RKGIT is located on the National Highway No. 58, Delhi-Meerut Road, (Opp. Jain Tube Co. Ltd.) in Ghaziabad. It is about 5 km. From Ghaziabad Bus stand and 8 km. from Ghaziabad Railway Station. The Institute is well connected with reliable and frequent public transport services round the clock. For shared auto local bus, the location is popularly known as No.5 stop on Delhi-Meerut road. If one gets down at New Delhi/Nizamunddin Railway Station, one can make a choice of coming to Anand Vihar Interstate Bus terminus by auto/taxi and then, take a bus for ALT center, Ghaziabad and get down at NO.5 Stop. Alternatively one can hire a DLY taxi from the Railway stations, and reach The Institute, which are about 35 km from New Delhi and 27 km from Nizamunddin Railway station. One may also avail the services of local trains and reach Ghaziabad Railway Station. Climate December is the month of on set of winter. The day temperature is around 20-25 C but the mornings, evening & night are cooler. Publication of Papers Out of the paper presented in the seminar selected papers will be published in special issue of "Vigyan Garima Sindhu", the official science journal of CSTT and the authors will be paid for publication as per CSTT rule. Interested participants must send the copy of their paper, along with soft copy, latest by 15th Nov.2006.The last date of submission of manuscript of paper shall not be extended beyond the stipulated date. Papers received for publication will be reviewed by a panel of experts whose decision will be final. -- ""I m a gr8 believer in luck and I find the harder I try the more I have of it"" Abhinav Sahai R.KG.I.T Ghaziabad 3rd Yr CSE Moderator Ghaziabad LUG http://www.sahaitherocker.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/?saved=1 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
