Shyam Ratan, PhD student in the Centre of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), School of Humanities (SoH) working with Prof. Selvaraj Arulmozi, attended a 7th International Conference on Data Science and Management and Data (CODS-COMAD 2024) held at IIIT Bangalore from 4 to 7 January, 2024. He also received the travel grant for attending this conference from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 11th ACM IKDD CODS and 29th COMAD.

Shyam Ratan with his co-authors presented a poster including demo of his application named “LiFE – Linguistic Field Data Management and Analysis System” on the research topic, “Demo of LiFE: A web app for collection, management and annotation of linguistic data”, In our proposed demo, we presented a new software – LiFE – Linguistic Field Data Management and Analysis System. It is an open-source, web-based tool for managing and analysing linguistic data that makes it possible to systematically store, share, annotate and use (for different linguistic purposes) data collected from the field, or crawled from various sources like YouTube, Blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Newspaper, Twitter, Newspapers, Wikipedia, etc. It follows a user-friendly full-fledged two-way pipeline for multimodal data to fill the void among field linguists and NLP practitioners: (i) field linguists’ pipeline to collect data from speakers in the field and analyze further to develop lexicons, educational resources, and potential language technologies; (ii) NLP practitioners’ pipeline to crawl data from the web sources using automatic or semi-automatic crawlers or manually, annotate further to develop various language technologies.