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Ph.D. Program

CLST promotes interdisciplinary research focusing on language analysis and technology development. The centre is founded on the idea that a balanced blend of different disciplines enhance the quality of research. The centre is involved in digital preservation and archiving of linguistic resources and in training manpower to promote such efforts. PhD admission applications are now invited from individuals adapt in working towards their PhD degrees with an interdisciplinary focus. Interested students may apply for enrollment in PhD programme in the following research domains:

1. Spoken Language Technology Development

  • Audio Processing
  • Pathological Speech Processing
  • Speech Analysis
  • Speech to Text
  • Spoken Language Resources
  • Text to Speech

2. Text Processing and Analytics

  • Analytics
  • Language Processing
  • Language Translation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Script Processing
  • Script Writing System
  • Text Processing
  • Type Design and Typography

3. Brain, Cognition and Language

  • Language Acquisition and Visual Attention
  • Language and Cognition
  • Neuroimaging of Language Disorders

4. Image and Video Processing

  • Document Image Processing
  • Handwritten and Printed Character Recognition
  • Vision and Language
  • Vision and Speech

5. Natural User Interface

  • Natural User Interfaces
  • UX/UI Design
  • Virtual/Augmented/Mixed reality

6. Computational Phonology

  • Computational Phonology
  • Quantitative Phonetics

Courses offered by the center:

  1. LS 501: Mathematics and Statistics - Credit : 2-2-0-8
  2. LS 511: Introduction to Typography & User Centric Computing- Credit : 2-0-4-8
  3. LS 521: Phonetics and Speech Signal Processing - Credit : 2-0-4-8
  4. LS 522: Machine Learning for Language Studies - Credit : 2-0-4-8
  5. LS 523: Technical Paper Writing and Research Methodologies - Credit : 2-0-2-6
  6. LS 531: Data Structures and Programming - Credit : 2-0-4-8
  7. LS 532: Programming for Language Studies - Credit : 2-0-4-8
  8. LS 551: Introduction to Language Science - Credit : 2-2-0-8
  9. LS 621: Spoken Language Systems - Credit : 2-0-4-8

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