The Department of Information Technology and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University is organizing a two-day workshop on “Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of Northeast India: Focus on Naga Languages” on 18-19 March 2025.

The Inaugural Programme was graced by Prof. Nigamananda Das, Senior Professor and Head of Department of English, Nagaland University, a press release stated.

The resource persons for the workshop were Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash, ISI Kolkata, Dr. Amalesh Gope, Tezpur University, Prof. Sujata Dash, Department of Information Technology, Nagaland University and Dr. Laishram Bijenkumar Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of CNTLS, Nagaland University.

The workshop will consist of 8 sessions and the resource persons will deliver talks on Introduction to NLP & Challenges in Indigenous Languages, Computational Linguistics for Indigenous Languages, NLP Tools & Techniques for Low-Resource Languages, Overview of Naga Languages, NLP Research Trends & Funding Opportunities and Formation of the NLP Research Consortium.

In one of the sessions, the participants will be given demonstration for Proposal Writing.