Linguistic Research Unit

Past Seminar

Topic: Relation between Bird Names and Bengali Language : An Ecolinguistic Content

Speaker: Sreejoni Kundu

Date: 02.09.2024

Topic: An Overview of Lexical Gap

Speaker: Asha Khatun

Date: 02.08.2024

Topic: A General Study Of Bird Names In Bengali.

Speaker: Anansa Roy

Date: 11.07.2024

Topic: A Presentation on Postpositions in Reference to Bengali WordNet.

Speaker: Anansa Roy

Date: 15.05.2024

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.

Topic: Lexical and Semantic Constraints in Compiling Sabar Dictionary.

Speaker: Asha Khatun

Date: 29.04.2024

Topic: An Overview of Bengali WordNet.

Speaker: Sreejoni Kundu

Date: 19.04.2024

Topic: Exploring the Platter of Bangladesh: A Linguistic and Sociocultural Analysis of Bengali Cuisine Text.

Speaker: Debjani Roychowdhury

Date: 10.04.2024

Topic: An Analysis of the Kheria Sabar Datasets Collected During Fieldwork.

Speaker: Puja Gorai

Date: 28.03.2024

Topic: Corpus of Bengali Cuisine Texts and Multidimensional Linguistic Analysis of the Corpus

Speaker: Nabanita Das

Date: 15.03.2024

The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Education, Govt of India has organized a 2-Day National Seminar on "Scientific and Technical Terms in Social Sciences" at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during 21-22 December 2023.

Topic:Using Praat for Speech Analysis

Speaker: Meghna Majumder

Date: 17.08.2023

Topic:Development of Tri-lingual Digital Dictionary: Bengali-Hindi-English

Speaker: Agnisha Majumder

Date: 05.08.2023

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.

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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 at ISI, Kolkata | IBG News Editor Desk

Topic:WordNet as a resource tool for aphasia related psycholinguistic disorder

Speaker: Shrestha Gudaba

Date: 14.07.2023

Topic: Different Approaches of Word Sense Disambiguation

Speaker: Nirnoy Dutta

Date: 04.07.2023

Topic: A short tutorial on Praat

Speaker: Puja Gorai, Subham Chakraborty

Date: 23.06.2023

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.

Topic: A brief study of the meaning of colors in Indian culture and how they used in advertising media

Speaker: Subham Chakraborty

Date: 03.03.2023

Topic: Challenges Faced in Developing a Dictionary for Kheria Sabar: An Indigenous and Endangered Tribal Speech Community of Eastern India

Speaker: Meghna Majumder

Date: 10.02.2023

Topic: An Overview of WordNet as a Lexical Venture with Special Focus on Bengali WordNet

Speaker: Shrestha Gudaba

Date: 03.02.2023

Topic: Looking into the nature of Linguistic Problems observed in Machine Translation while translating from Hindi-Bengali: Some case-based analysis and solutions

Speaker: Agnisha Majumder

Date: 17.01.2023