Media Release

Mangaluru, Jan 10: The department of Kannada and Kannada Sangha, School of Language and Culture Studies, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University) in association with Karavali Wikimedia (R) organised a workshop on ‘Siri Kannada and Silicon Brain’ on January 9 introducing new dimensions of artificial intelligence in Kannada research.

Dr U B Pavanaja, director of Vishwa Kannada Foundation, Bengaluru, and secretary of Karavali Wikimedia, was the resource person. Dr Vishwanatha Badikana, former professor of Kannada and president of Karavali Wikimedia, presided over the programme. Dean of language and culture studies Niketan and head of Kannada department Dr Mahalinga Bhat, professor and president of Kannada Sangha, Vinayadurga, professor of Kannada department Dr Dinesh Nayak were present on the dais.

Dr U B Pavanaja in his speech said, “Kannada research can be taken to a new direction using modern technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and language analysis techniques. By identifying the unique writing style of an author, a computer programme can accurately detect whether an anonymous article is by the same author or not. Similarly, it is also possible to detect whether an article has been copied from another article, and to compare the original article and the suspicious articles through the program and find similarities between them.”

He taught the researchers and students the basics of how to make a computer understand language and recognize word usage using artificial intelligence (AI) and language analysis techniques.

Assistant professor of Kannada Prashanthi B welcomed the gathering. Vachana, a student of BSc compered the programme.