About GIAN
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education is an initiative of the Govt. of India aimed at at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs, internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.
In order to garner the best international experience into our systems of education, GIAN seeks to enable interaction of students and faculty with the best academic and industry experts from all over the world and also share their experiences and expertise to motivate people to work on Indian problems.
It is expected that with inputs from experts across the world, Indian students and faculty will have a chance to optimise their own skills and enhance their research and teaching in good measure.
About IIT Kanpur
The globally acclaimed education at IIT Kanpur prepares the international students for exciting careers all over the world. The education develops a critical thinking led approach and imparts knowledge in science, engineering, management and humanities fields to solve problems that challenge humanity.
Researchers at IIT Kanpur do cutting edge research in their area. There is great synergy between the fundamental research and applied research done at IITK. Its alumni and faculty have won many international awards.
We pursue, encourage and facilitate strong, cordial and long term collaborative and exchange programmes. These involve participation in technology development, research and education. They mutually benefit the faculties and students of both, ours and our partner Universities.
About the Course
The statistical properties of both, the language and it's users, can be useful in understanding the key variables involved in comprehension and use of language. These measures are now deemed useful to professionals in various fields who use this data to identify patterns in how individuals and groups use and understand language.
Dr. Emmanuel Keuleers, with his vast experience in Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics and also Natural Language Processing, will provide participants with an opportunity to combine the fundamental concepts in these fields and gain insights useful for both research and technological applications.