HMDSAD: Hindi multi-domain sentiment aware dictionary

Sentiment Analysis is a fast growing sub area of Natural Language Processing which extracts user's opinion and classify it according to its polarity into positive, negative or neutral classes. This task of classification is required for many purposes like opinion mining, opinion summarization, contextual advertising and market analysis but it is domain dependent. The words used to convey sentiments in one domain is different from the words used to express sentiments in other domain and it is a costly task to annotate the corpora in every possible domain of interest before training the classifier for the classification. We are making an attempt to solve this problem by creating a sentiment aware dictionary using multiple domain data. The source domain data is labeled into positive and negative classes at the document level and the target domain data is unlabeled. The dictionary is created using both source and target domain data. The words used to express positive or negative sentiments in labeled data has relatedness weights assigned to it which signifies its co-occurrence frequency with the words expressing the similar sentiments in target domain. This work is carried out in Hindi, the official language of India. The web pages in Hindi language is booming very quickly after the introduction of UTF-8 encoding style. The dictionary can be used to classify the unlabeled data in the target domain by training a classifier

Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda

This dissertation aimed to understand formal and informal ayurvedic knowledge and practice through the framework of commodification, in the context of the recent emergence of global ayurvedic tourism in Kerala, India. The objective was to understand how commodification, both old and new, have affected knowledges and livelihoods of actors constituting the ayurvedic commodity chain, with a focus on `social lives\u27 of ayurvedic pharmaceuticals and select herb-ingredients. I argue that the trajectory of commodification in Kerala provides a stark contrast to the national mainstream with its focus on classical vis-à-vis proprietary medicines. This therapy-centric business model maintained the integrity of traditional ayurvedic practice by keeping the ayurvedic doctor within the loop. I suggest that the new wave of multi-faceted tourism-inspired commodification draws on this strength. This in turn has created a paradigmatic shift in the way ayurveda is commodified locally and globally, by switching focus from `pharmaceuticals\u27 to `services\u27, and `illness\u27 to `wellness\u27. I suggest that conceptualizing classical medicines as `open-source commodities\u27, brings attention to the significance of background knowledge processes. While distinct stakeholder characteristics and historic State patronage are significant factors, at the root of the commercial viability of open-source-ayurveda, I argue, is the continuity of a cultural practice, the robustness of it I attribute to its historical evolution in Kerala as a mass commodity in contrast to its elitist status elsewhere. However, industrialization threatens the traditional role of knowledge-intensive actors: doctors, consumers, raw drug shops and medicinal plant collectors. I argue that the industry\u27s role is contributory rather than causal; more significant in endangering ayurvedic metis are effects of modern institutionalization shaped by goals of homogenization and scientization. Discussing the nature of deskilling each node has undergone, I demonstrate the significance of `cultural stakes\u27 in the conservation of common property resources that are more often that not at loggerheads with `economic stakes\u27. The arguments in this dissertation are built over and contribute to three bodies of anthropological research: economic anthropology engaged in the study of commodities and commodification processes, ecological anthropology concerned with conservation of common property resources, and medical anthropology concerned with study of medical systems and pharmaceuticals

CMFRI Annual Report 2003-2004

The marine living resources are dynamic and renewable and hence regular assessment and monitoring on their resource size, exploitation rates and replenishment capacities is essentia

CMFRI Annual Report 2022 केंद्रीय समुद्री मात्स्यिकी अनुसंधान संस्थान वार्षिक प्रतिवेदन 2022

In 2022, the total marine fish landings along the coast of India’s mainland were approximately 3.49 million tonnes, indicating a 14.53% increase compared to 2021. The year saw a significant rise of 28.02% in fish landings compared to the pandemic-affected year of 2020. However, despite these improvements, the 2022 estimate was 2.0% lower than the pre-COVID year of 2019. Among the coastal states, Tamil Nadu secured the highest position with 7.22 lakh tonnes of fish landings, followed by Karnataka with 6.95 lakh tonnes and Kerala with 6.87 lakh tonnes. Gujarat, which had previously held the top rankings, dropped to fourth place with 5.03 lakh tonnes. These four states, namely Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, and Gujarat accounted for 20.69%, 19.90%, 19.68%, and 14.40% of the national total, respectively. Except for Odisha and Gujarat, all states witnessed an increase in fish landings compared to 2021

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Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India

study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetolog

Innovative Technologies and Services for Smart Cities

A smart city is a modern technology-driven urban area which uses sensing devices, information, and communication technology connected to the internet of things (IoTs) for the optimum and efficient utilization of infrastructures and services with the goal of improving the living conditions of citizens. Increasing populations, lower budgets, limited resources, and compatibility of the upgraded technologies are some of the few problems affecting the implementation of smart cities. Hence, there is continuous advancement regarding technologies for the implementation of smart cities. The aim of this Special Issue is to report on the design and development of integrated/smart sensors, a universal interfacing platform, along with the IoT framework, extending it to next-generation communication networks for monitoring parameters of interest with the goal of achieving smart cities. The proposed universal interfacing platform with the IoT framework will solve many challenging issues and significantly boost the growth of IoT-related applications, not just in the environmental monitoring domain but in the other key areas, such as smart home, assistive technology for the elderly care, smart city with smart waste management, smart E-metering, smart water supply, intelligent traffic control, smart grid, remote healthcare applications, etc., signifying benefits for all countries

Searching for Shakuntala: Sanskrit drama and theatrical modernity in Europe and India, 1789-Present

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the Sanskrit drama known as Shakuntala (Abhijñānaśakuntala) by Kalidasa has held a place of prominence as a classic of world literature. First translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1789, in the intervening centuries Shakuntala has been extolled and memorialized by the likes of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Theophile Gautier, and Rabindranath Tagore. Though often included in anthologies of world literature, however, the history of the play in performance during this same period of time has gone both undocumented and unstudied. In an endeavor to fill this significant void in scholarship, “Searching for Shakuntala” is the first comprehensive study of the performance history of Kalidasa’s Abhijñānaśakuntala in Europe and India. It argues that Shakuntala has been a critical interlocutor for the emergence of modern theater practice, having been regularly featured on both European and Indian stages throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, it asserts that to appreciate the contributions that the play has made to modern theater history requires thinking through and against the biases and expectations of cultural authenticity that have burdened the play in both performance and reception. Perceived as a portrait of a particular moment in ancient Indian history, Shakuntala has long been encumbered by the obligation to portray either the authentic Other for an eager and curious foreign audience or the authentic Self for a native Indian audience reclaiming a national heritage. Such expectations, this project contends, overlook the play’s long history in between the diametric poles of East and West, obscuring the far more complicated, and more interesting facets of its lives onstage. As a performance history, “Searching for Shakuntala” endeavors to reconstruct historical productions by assembling reviews, photographs, programs, set drawings, costume materials, video recordings (when available), and other theatrical ephemera. Rather than beginning from the point of view of the text, each chapter is framed around a central production and asks how the cultural, historical, artistic, and political forces of the period in question can be discerned in this particular manifestation of Kalidasa’s play. Chapter 1 begins with William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society’s original practice Shakuntala from fin-de-siècle London; Chapter 2 heads across the channel to Paris and the symbolist Théâtre de L’Œuvre of Lugné-Poe and his experimentation with Sanskrit drama; Chapter 3 considers the representation of Shakuntala by a group known as the Brahmana Sabha at India’s First National Drama Festival in 1954; and Chapter 4 begins with an adaptation called Chhaya Shakuntala, or Shades of Shakuntala, as a way into thinking through the play on contemporary Indian stages. Taken together, the productions discussed in this dissertation make clear that the history of Shakuntala in performance is more than just documentation of the occasional production of an obscure work of ancient dramatic literature. It is also a study in the hegemony of intercultural exchange, the interplay between theatrical performance and identity formation, and the interwoven formal theatrical experimentation that took place through the performance of an Indian text during a period of theater history traditionally dominated by the West

Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India

study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetolog