International Conference on Indic Languages 2024

The University of Silicon Andhra (Milpitas, California) is excited to announce the Call for Papers for the First International Conference on Indic Languages (ICIL 2024), a premier gathering for researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) for Indic languages. ICIL 2024 aims to bring together experts from diverse domains to explore the latest advancements, applications, and challenges in Indic languages.

Almost all the research and development work done in NLP and CL is primarily focused on English and a handful of other languages. However, India is home to over 1.4 billion people whose mother tongues span dozens of languages. These Indic languages have a long history, abundant literature, and unique linguistic traditions. However, they are low-resource languages from the perspective of NLP and CL. This annual conference aims to help advance research and development in Indic Languages through the development of corpora, parallel corpora, optical character recognition, tagged training datasets, and eventual development of systems for machine translation, automatic speech recognition, spoken language interfaces, document clustering, document classification, text summarization, question-answering, author attribution, sentiment analysis, text generation, and conversational agents.

Conference Theme

Empowering the Future of Billion People through Language Tools and Applications that Communicate and Understand Their Mother Tongue.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: September 18, 2024
Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 18, 2024
Conference Dates and Venue: November 18 – 20, 2024

University of Silicon Andhra, 1521 California Circle, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA.

Submission Process

Authors are requested to submit their papers through the [to come], following the provided guidelines. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process by experts in the field.

Submission Guidelines

We invite original and unpublished contributions that showcase innovative research, practical applications, and thought-provoking ideas related to all aspects of Indic languages. Submissions can include technical papers, case studies, and demo proposals, but they are not limited to these.

Publication Opportunities

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be archived in [to come]. Furthermore, outstanding papers may be considered for publication in a special issue of a leading journal.