National conference to discuss efficacy, improvement, and support of AI applications in Indian languages to be held on March 20
1 week, 4 days ago

National conference to discuss efficacy, improvement, and support of AI applications in Indian languages to be held on March 20

The Hindu  

The Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, a scheme of the Ministry of Education implemented at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysuru, is organising a national conference on March 20. The theme of the conference is ‘Evaluation and benchmarking of publicly available artificial intelligence applications that support Indian languages’. The two-day national conference aims to discuss topics related to the evaluation and efficacy of such applications in Indian languages, brainstorm issues and challenges in improving them, and provide support to all Indian languages. A press release stated that paper presenters will deliberate on the major challenges facing Indian languages and how Indian languages can do better on the AI front.

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CIIL conference highlights 15 newly developed datasets and AI applications for Indian languages
1 week, 2 days ago

CIIL conference highlights 15 newly developed datasets and AI applications for Indian languages

The Hindu  

The release of 15 newly developed datasets by LDC-IL was the key highlight of the conference on artificial intelligence at the CIIL here on Thursday. The datasets include - Mother Tongue Parallel Text Corpus of India, Gold Standard Rajasthani Raw Text Corpus, Gold Standard Chhattisgarhi Raw Text Corpus Vol. II, Gold Standard Kashmiri Raw Text Corpus Vol. II, Gold Standard …

National conference on AI tools supporting Indian languages begins at CIIL in Mysuru
1 week, 2 days ago

National conference on AI tools supporting Indian languages begins at CIIL in Mysuru

The Hindu  

The two-day national conference on the “Evaluation and benchmarking of publicly available artificial intelligence applications that support Indian languages” began at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysuru on Thursday. After a formal inaugural session, a series of plenary sessions and paper presentations were held where experts shared their thoughts on the topics related to the evaluation and efficacy …

AICTE to give ₹4 crore to colleges for conferences in regional languages
1 week, 3 days ago

AICTE to give ₹4 crore to colleges for conferences in regional languages

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education on Wednesday launched the second edition of its flagship scheme AICTE-VAANI, aimed at promoting Indian languages in technical education. Under the scheme, the technical education regulator will provide ₹4 crore for 200 conferences, seminars, and workshops in emerging technical fields in 22 regional languages this year. AICTE chairperson Prof TG Sitharam …

Indian AI model’s local language viability faces content availability barrier
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Indian AI model’s local language viability faces content availability barrier

The Hindu  

A key goal of Indian startups and the IndiaAI Mission has been to create a foundational large language model that is tuned to Indian languages. That has so far been a tall order, as the amount of Indian language content online — a key source of training data in English, which is what most foundational models like OpenAI and Google’s …

Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation
5 months ago

Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation

The Hindu  

Meta's LeCun highlights India's potential in shaping the future of AI. He emphasizes the country's talent pool, vibrant tech ecosystem, and open-source approach as key drivers of AI innovation. Meta's vision for AI focuses on empowering individuals and driving societal transformation through AI. The country's focus on frugal engineering and low-cost development of AI models will promote AI inclusion and …

Unlocking India's Digital Potential: Role Of AI, Generative AI In Vernacular Languages For Users
7 months, 1 week ago

Unlocking India's Digital Potential: Role Of AI, Generative AI In Vernacular Languages For Users

ABP News  

By Rahul Prasad Technology is changing how we talk and connect with each passing day. When it's combined with language models and deep learning, generative AI can understand the details of human language and create content that makes sense and fits the situation. Generative AI is not just a tool; it’s a bridge connecting people through language, making communication smoother, …

16 new datasets in Indian languages for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research
1 year, 2 months ago

16 new datasets in Indian languages for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research

The Hindu  

The Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages is a Scheme of the Ministry of Education and it works on development of digital corpora in Indian languages. As an important outcome, LDC-IL launched 16 new datasets in Indian languages to help bolster quality research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The first of its kind, these datasets will help develop new …

How are Indian languages faring in the age of AI and language models?
1 year, 9 months ago

How are Indian languages faring in the age of AI and language models?

The Hindu  

“Sanskrit suits the language of computers and those learning artificial intelligence learn it,” Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S. Somanath said at an event in Ujjain on May 25. “A large network is more powerful, can represent more complex functions, and needs more data to reach its maximum performance.” Data for ‘fine-tuning’ “The availability of text in each language is …

IIT Madras Launches Centre to Create Open Source AI, Advanced Tech for Indian Languages
2 years, 8 months ago

IIT Madras Launches Centre to Create Open Source AI, Advanced Tech for Indian Languages

News 18  

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras Madras on Thursday launched the ‘Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat’. Read | IIT Mandi Starts MTech in Electric Transportation AI4Bharat was set-up as an initiative of IIT Madras to build open-source language AI for Indian languages. AI4Bharat will further contribute to and accelerate the Indic language AI work as a public good and is fully …

Microsoft releases data set for speech training in Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati
6 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft releases data set for speech training in Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati

Firstpost  

Microsoft’s Indian Language Speech Corpus was tested at Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad. To help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used, Microsoft India on Thursday launched its Indian language “Speech Corpus”, offering speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati. “Microsoft Indian Language Speech Corpus is an extension of …

Microsoft in language computing
14 years, 9 months ago

Microsoft in language computing

The Hindu  

Microsoft India joins the World Classical Tamil Conference by sending its representatives to the seminar and participating exhibition. A release says the company’s spokespersons Kumaran and Michael Kaplan will present papers on the origin of Tamil Unicode and importance of language computing. The release says Microsoft India has been working on language computing in India since 1998 and has a …

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