January 5, 2024, IITG
Launch of the UnMute Toolkit. The UnMute Toolkit is an open-source collection of tools, methodologies, and pipelines tailored to speakers of un-written, minority languages. The event brought together interdisciplinary researchers, NGOs, industrial partners, and minority language speakers.
Visit websiteFeb 21, 2020, IITG
International Mother Language Day celebrated at IIT Guwahati organized by Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology. Dr. Kuladhar Saikia, President, Assam Sahitya Sabha, was the Chief Guest of the event. Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director IITG delivered the welcome address. Prof. Rohit Sinha spoke about the Technology Intervention in Mother Language promotion. Also, the researchers of IIT Guwahati made short presentations highlighting their research on 16 different Mother Languages.
Visit photo albumMar 01-03, 2018, IITG
Voice User Interfaces are here to stay! Personal assistants, Chatbots, Dialog based interactions in hands-free scenarios, IVRs and other applications are presenting users with novel interactions. It also brings excitement along with challenges for everyone dealing with the design and development of such interfaces.
Visit websiteJan 19-22, 2018, IITG
WiSSAP - Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing provides a forum for students, researchers and professionals to enhance their background and get exposed to intricate research areas in the field of speech and audio signal processing. The schools constitute of a theme topic and tutorials surrounding it. WiSSAP 2018, scheduled between 19th and 22nd January, 2018, at the Center for Linguistic Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, is the thirteenth in the series following the very successful earlier twelve winter schools.
Visit website19 August, 2017, IITG
Dr. S.P.Arun , Centre for Neuroscience, I.I.Sc. Bengaluru gave the 1st of a series on talks in Cognitive Science. He also had an intensive interaction with the students.
Visit photo album16-28 May, 2017, IITG
A "School on Automatic Speech Recognition" was conducted by CLST. The school was attended by about 20 Ph.D. scholars from North-East India, about 20 scholars from other parts of India as well as Bhutan, in addition to about a dozen scholars from IITG. The tutorial lectures in the mornings were followed by practical sessions in the afternoons. In addition, there were expert lectures and demonstrations of speech systems in the evenings. Every participant individually implemented Marathi language ASR system using spoken and written language resources made available to them. They implemented ASR systems for some languages in addition to preparing linguistic resources in their own languages: Adi, Ao, Assamese, Bangla, Dzongkha, Galo, Hindi, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Odia and Telugu.
Download Technical Program16-17 March 2017, IITG
The aim of the symposium is to inform and encourage students and young researchers about the field and its various research domains . Cognitive science is an essentially interdisciplinary area of research and depends heavily on collaborative efforts among experts from various disciplines. Leading researchers from the field will deliver talks on some key areas of empirical research. We aim not only to spread knowledge about the field but also to start a fruitful dialogue among the relevant departments and interested parties in various institutes in India , especially NE for future research and help them contribute to the steady growth of Cognitive Science in India. India’s North East, with its rich and diverse cultural landscape, is a fertile ground for new and adventurous research ideas. Areas like language and cognition, cognitive disorders, bilingualism, artificial intelligence, emotion and cognition, child cognition, autism, can be explored.
Visit website10-12 November, 2016, IITG
The Centre for Linguistics Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is delighted to announce that the 38th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI - 38) will be held at the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Download CFP8-10 June 2016, IITG
The 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium will be organized jointly by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for Linguistic Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati from June 8 to June 10, 2016. The Himalayan Languages Symposium is a multidisciplinary conference that covers a broad range of topics of the Himalayan languages. As mentioned in the official website of Himalayan Languages Symposium contributions are welcome on any language of the greater Himalayan region, e.g. Burushaski, Kusunda, Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Iranian, Austroasiatic, Kradai, Andamanese, Nahali, Dravidian or any other language of the area. Contributions are also invited from related disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and prehistory focusing on the greater Himalayan region.
Visit website7-8 January 2016, IITG
In this workshop we aim to focus on the languages spoken in Northeast India (Tibeto-Burman, Indic and Munda languages) and we seek to give a platform to researchers working on tone and intonation of the languages of Northeast India from descriptive, theoretical or experimental perspectives.
Visit website15-16 January 2016, IITG
Experts who has been taken part: Meera Natampally (Principal Architect), Dr K R Murali Mohan (DST), Dr Parag Chaudhuri (IIT Bombay), Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur), Mamata N. Rao (NID Bangaluru), Dr. Uma Mudenagudi (BVBCET), Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri (IIT Bombay), Dr. S. Indu (DTU), Prof. Bhabatosh Chanda (ISI Kolkata), Prof. P. K. Biswas (IITKgp), Prof. Santanu Chaudhury (IIT Delhi), Dr. R. Vasanth Kumar Mehta (SCSVMV University), Dr.N.Manoharan (AMET University), Prof. C.V. Jawahar (IIIT Hyderabad) Apart from these experts, faculty members of CLST (IIT Guwahati), Gauhati University and Cotton College University had taken part.
23-24 November 2015, IITG
Experts who has been taken part: Prof B Yegnanarayana (IIIT Hyderabad), Prof A. G. Ramakrishnan (IISc Bangalore), Prof C. Chandra Sekar (IIT Madras), Prof. Arun Kumar (IIT Delhi) and Dr. Kohli (DST) Apart from these experts, faculty members from CLST (IIT Guwahati), GUIST (gauhati University), NIT Meghalaya, School of Technology (NEHu), NIT Sikkim, SMIT Sikkim, NIT Nagaland, NIT Manipur and School of Technology (Assam University Silchar) had taken part.
26-27 October 2015, IITG
Experts who has taken part: Prof B Yegnanarayana (IIIT Hyderabad), Prof. Sumudravijaya (TIFR Mumbai), Dr. S.S. Kohli (DST) Apart from these experts, faculty members from CLST (IIT Guwahati), GUIST (gauhati University), NIT Meghalaya, School of Technology (NEHu), NIT Sikkim, SMIT Sikkim, NIT Nagaland and NIT Manipur had taken part.
21 September 2015, IITG
Experts who has taken part: Dr. S.S. Kohli (DST) Apart from these experts, faculty members from CLST (IIT Guwahati), GUIST (gauhati University), NIT Meghalaya, School of Technology (NEHu), NIT Sikkim, SMIT Sikkim, NIT Nagaland and NIT Manipur had taken part.