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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="042fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <B>THE FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING AND SHALLOW PARSING OF INDIAN LANGUAGES</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="intro.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction"><U><B>Introduction</B></U></A></FONT><B> | </B><A HREF="theme.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Theme Description"><U><B>Theme</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="fcp.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="First Call"><U><B>First Call</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="cis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Confirmed Invited Speakers"><U><B>Invited Speakers</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Focused Papers"><U><B>Focused Papers</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Technical Sessions"><U><B>Technical Sessions</B></U></A><B> | Panel Discussion | </B><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cultural Program"><U><B>Cultural Evening</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="cmt.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Committee"><U><B>Committee</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="imp_dt.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Important Dates"><U><B>Important Dates</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="sumb.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Submission Details"><U><B>Submission</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="r_publ.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Review and Publication"><U><B>Review and Publication</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="regn.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registration"><U><B>Registration</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="spt.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Support"><U><B>Support</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="tsg.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travel and Stay Guide"><U><B>Travel and Stay Guide</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Campus Info"><U><B>Campus Info</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="043d2b03.jpg"> <div> MSPIL-06</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0af58470.jpg" border=0 width="88" height="71" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.iitb.ac.in" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.iitb.ac.in"><U><IMG SRC="0ae564c0.gif" border=0 width="86" height="76" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ciil.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ciil.org"><U><IMG SRC="082673c0.png" border=0 width="103" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Panel Discussion</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Topic:      "</B>Charting the course of action for Indian Language Processing"</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B>Panelists:     </B>Sasi Kumar  (C-DAC, Mumbai)</div> <div>                          K. Narayan Murthy  (Univerisity of Hyderabad)</div> <div>                          Vaijayanthi Sarma  (IIT Bombay)</div> <div>                          Tanmoy Bhattacharya  (University of Delhi)</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B>Moderator:  </B>Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)</div> <div> <B>Observer:    </B>R. M. K. Sinha<B> </B>  (IIT Kanpur)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Suggested points of discussion:</B></div> <div>  </div> <div>     1. Better interaction between the two worlds: Linguistics and Computation</div> <div>           - How much of foundation on linguistic theory should the CS people understand?</div> <div>           - How much should the linguist understand computation?</div> <div>  </div> <div>     2. The crucial need of keeping the feet on ground, while holding the head in the sky</div> <div>           - Basic resources (Lexical)</div> <div>           - Basic tools (tagger, chunker etc.)</div> <div>           - standardization </div> <div>  </div> <div>     3. Involving the industry</div> <div>  </div> <div>     4. Involving the government</div> <div>  </div> <div>     5. Education and training</div> <div>  </div> <div>     6. Actions:</div> <div>           - Immediate</div> <div>           - Long term</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>