Program

Thursday, 13 June 2013

9:00-9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks

1. Peter Scharf, Chaire internationale de recherche Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire d'histoire des théories linguistiques, l'Université paris 7, Denis Diderot

9:15-10:45 a.m. Keynote Address

1. Hans Henrich Hock, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois
   Some issues in Sanskrit syntax
   abstract, paper

10:45-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Syntactic relations

Georges-Jean Pinault, Directeur d'études, Sciences historiques et philologiques, l'École pratique des hautes études, Paris, session chair

1. Gérard Huet
   Sanskrit shallow parsing
   abstract, paper
2. Brendan S. Gillon
   Polyadicity and context sensitivity in classical Sanskrit
   abstract, paper
3. Peter M. Scharf
   Interrogatives and word-order in Sanskrit
   abstract, paper
4. Madhav Gopal and Girish Nath Jha
   Anaphor resolution in Sanskrit: issues and challenges
   abstract, paper

1:00-2:30 p.m. Lunch

restaurant et adresse

2:30-5:00 p.m. Poetic syntax

Brendan S. Gillon, Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, session chair

1. Sven Sellmer
   Epic versification and word order: looking for clues in the battle books of the Mahābhārata
   abstract, paper
2. Amba Kulkarni, Priti Shukla, and Devanand Shukla
   How free is ‘free’ word order in Sanskrit?
   abstract, paper
3. Anuja Ajotikar, Sampada Savardekar, Pawan Goyal, and Peter Scharf
   Preliminary results suggesting some distinctive features of poetic syntax
   abstract, abstract
4. Keshav S. Melnad, Pawan Goyal, and Peter Scharf
   Meter identification of Sanskrit verse
   abstract, paper
5. Suchitra Ray Acharyya
   Māgha’s techniques of poetic composition as demonstrated in his Śiśupālavadha
   abstract, paper

7:00 p.m. Dinner

restaurant et adresse

Friday, 14 June 2013

9:00-10:30 a.m. Special lecture

1. George Cardona, Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
   Derivation and interpretation in Pāṇini’s system
   abstract, paper

10:30-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pāṇinian syntax

Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, Directeur d'études, Sanskrit, l'École pratique des hautes études, session chair

1. Anuja Ajotikar, Tanuja Ajotikar, Pawan Goyal, and Peter M. Scharf
   Voice, preverb, and transitivity restrictions in Sanskrit verb use
   abstract, paper
2. Prasad P. Joshi
   On concord and government relations in Sanskrit
   abstract, paper
3. George Cardona
   Extension rules and the syntax of Aṣṭādhyāyī sūtras with vati
   abstract, paper
4. Sharon Ben-Dor
   Argument structure in the Mahābhāṣya
   abstract, paper

1:00-2:30 p.m. Lunch

restaurant et adresse

2:30-5:00 p.m. Dependency relations and the structure of verbal cognition

Jan Houben, Directeur d’études, Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite, l'École pratique des hautes études, session chair

1. Amba Kulkarni and Pavankumar S.
   Treating utthita and utthāpya ākāṅkṣās independently for efficient parsing
   abstract, paper
2. Dipesh Katira and Malhar Kulkarni
   Parse trees for erroneous sentences
   abstract, paper
3. Malhar Kulkarni, Anuja Ajotikar, Tanuja Ajotikar
   Complementary application of traditional systems of śābdabodha
   abstract, paper
4. Purnima Ghosh
   Cognition of a sentence and its mechanism admitted in the syncretic schools of Indian philosophy
   abstract, paper
5. Émilie Aussant
   To Classify Words: Western and Sanskrit Grammatical Approaches
   abstract, paper

7:00 p.m. Dinner

restaurant et adresse

Saturday, 15 June 2013

9:00-12:00 a.m. Computational linguistics for highly inflected free-word-order languages: goals and objectives for Sanskrit

Peter Scharf, session chair

1. Gérard Huet, Directeur de Recherche, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
   Challenges in Sanskrit computational linguistics
   abstract, paper
2. Amba Kulkarni, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad
   Computational and Linguistic Challenges in Sanskrit Parsing
   abstract, paper
3. Brendan S. Gillon
   Some grammatical challenges to parsing Classical Sanskrit
   abstract, paper
4. Discussion

12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch

restaurant et adresse

2:00-5:00 p.m. Image-text alignment for Sanskrit manuscripts

Amba Kulkarni, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, session chair

1. Peter Scharf
   Ideas for developing image-text alignment for Sanskrit manuscripts
   abstract, paper
2. Thomas Breuel
   An overview of text-image alignment methods
   abstract, paper
3. Oliver Hellwig
   The role of linguistic knowledge in Sanskrit OCR
   abstract, paper
4. Lalit Saxena and Ambuja Salgaonkar
   Image processing of degraded palm-leaf manuscripts
   abstract, paper
5. Discussion

7:00 p.m. Dinner

restaurant et adresse