The Centre was founded in the year 2014. The structure of the centre is interdisciplinary, diverse projects involving various streams of
specialization will contribute towards building a knowledge base and developing technologies for the
NE languages in particular.
Some collaborators in centre are already in possession of sponsored
projects that are run in an interdisciplinary manner. For example, the DeITy sponsored project aimed
at archiving and preserving speech data has interdisciplinary research interests.
Current Students
Faculties
Publications
Jan. 30 2024
Cross-lingual Embeddings...
Sept. 29 2023
Synergy of Linguistic Science and Technology: NLP's Linguistic Endeavors...
August 17 2023
Balancing Act: The Ethical Dilemma in Capturing Elephants in Human-elephant Conflict Management...
1-4 July 2025, IITG
The workshop featured four overview talks on the state-of-the-art of ASR and TTS technologies available for use by researchers and industries....
12-14 June 2024, IITG
The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an annually convening, open scholarly forum for scholars of Himalayan languages. Contributions are welcome on any language of the greater Himalayan region, e.g. Burushaski, Kusunda, Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Iranian, Au...
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 pa...
Kuppuraj Bishop Study Visit Grant awarded
Chandni Khaund, who is working under the guidance of Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta and Prof. Shyamanta Moni Hazarika, has been granted the prestigious Kuppuraj-Bishop Study Visit by the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) of the UK on 11th Jan. 2024. She will be stationed at the School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, in the Speech and Language Sciences division. During her three-month stay, Chandni will be working with Dr Laurence White and Dr Faye Smith on children's reading acquisition and development across different orthographies.
UnrestricTED Winner
Seema Lokhandwala won the UnrestricTED competition on 12th Feb 2023. She is an engineer turned elephant biologist who aims to integrate latest technologies with data and concepts from elephant communication, behavior and ecology to understand the ecological and evolutionary process.