IIT Ropar organized 2nd linguistics symposium BROCAS 2019; to highlight research in Language cognition
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar in collaboration with CIIL, Mysore, organized its 2nd linguistics symposium “Bridging Research on Cognition and Speech (BROCAS 2019)”with the intent of offering a platform to researchers and scholars from qualitatively different research backgrounds, including theoretical, experimental and modeling, to present their ongoing research in the fields related to Phonology and/or Language cognition.
The symposium was inaugurated and presided by Prof. Sarit K Das, Director, IIT Ropar. Forty participants, comprising of research scholars and faculty members from various IITs, Universities and research institutes have participated in the program. In the oral and poster categories, two participants received the best paper awards. Experts from different IITs and other reputed institutions and organizations delivered lectures in different sessions of the symposium. Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Patna and Prof. Tatiana Oranskaia, from University of Hamburg, Germany, gave plenary sessions. Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash from ISI Kolkata, Dr. Sweta Sinha from IIT Patna, and Dr. ShashikantaTarai from NIT Raipur were the keynote speakers.
Prof. Das said, “This is a unique platform to showcase, discuss their current research for young researchers working in Linguistics in general and Speech, NLP, language, and cognition in particular.” Two research scholars Krishan Chaurasiya (IIT Delhi) and Monalisa Bhattacharjee (IIT Patna) received the best paper awards (best oral and poster presentations), sponsored by the Indo-Taiwan Research Centre for AI & ML.
Dr. Somdev Kar, Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT Ropar said, “The primary objective of this symposium is to exchange knowledge among both young and experienced researchers, practicing linguists, and put all of this in perspective by discussing speech, language and cognition as a continuum.”
The scholar presentations bridged topics from theoretical aspects of Phonology to Behavioural studies on language comprehension, also roping in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language teaching at a high level.
