Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies (CALTS)

The Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) was established as a Research Centre in 1988 and has been offering PhD in Applied Linguistics (since inception), M.A. in Applied Linguistics (since 1990), PhD in Translation Studies (since 1998) and I.M.A. in Language Sciences (since 2009).

 

The Centre specializes in Language Interface Studies with an emphasis on Core Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. In Applied Linguistics, the focus currently is on Language Teaching, Language Typology, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computational Lexicography, Corpus Studies, Language Endangerment Studies, Language Documentation, Speech-Language Pathology, Cognitive Hearing Sciences (Speech Perception). In the area of Translation Studies, the focus is on Oral Literature and Translation, Gender and Translation, English Translation of Indian Literature, Audio-Visual Translation and Post-Colonial Translation.

 

Apart from being one of the advanced centres of teaching and research in Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies in the country, CALTS has also created a substantial computational facility for research and training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Translation (MT). CALTS has faculty members who specialize in the areas mentioned above. The Centre has undertaken major research projects such as Indian Language to Indian Language Machine Translation (IL-ILMT), Shallow Parser Tools for Indian Languages (SPTIL), Odia WordNet and Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) Phase-II (Odia) funded by DeiTY, Govt. of India. CALTS has been evaluated and rated by the Research Council of the United Kingdom as a Centre of Excellence in 2010 among 32 important institutions in India.