mysore the central institute of indian languages is holding the first international conference on global word net in collaboration with global wordwet association the netherlands indian institute of technology mumbai and indian institute of information technolgy hyderabad the conference will be held from january 21 to 25 this meeting is intended to bring together computer scientists cognitive science scholars and linguists building or intending to build wordnets and exchange information of practical and theoretical nature according to a release wordnets are semantic networks representing electronically the vocabulary of a language wordnets have a wide range of practical applications beginning from natural language processing machineaided translation across languages secondlanguage teaching as well as for building medical databases the original princeton wordnet in usa and the euro wordnet in uk were built for english and the newly formed global wordnet association gwn desires to bring this concept to other languages across the globe eighty scholars from 19 countries including india are attending the conference around 50 papers which had gone through strict scrutiny of blind review and revised on the basis of the comments of the reviewers will be presented during the conference india was chosen to host this conference because of its linguistic diversity coupled with its advancement in computer and communication technology and it being an important partner of the western world in modem science ciil in mysore was the natural choice in india because of its preeminent position in linguistics and lexicography the release added workshop the ugcacademic staff college of the mysore university with financial assistance from the ugc would be organising a fiveday workshop from january 21 to 25 on the role of principals in college development and ensuring quality education the objective of this workshop is to understand the role of the principals in governance of colleges teacher empowerment assessment accredition restructuring of courses and introduction of semester system will also be discussed prof rame gowda vicechancellor of karnataka state open university will inaugurate the workshop prof sn hegde vicechancellor mysore university will preside the valedictory address will be delivered by prof rp kaushik former member of the university grants commission eminent educationists and administrators will participate in the workshop