Research Work
IOSR organizes consultations, seminars, and conferences before finalising research priorities. The annual report identifies completed projects, ongoing projects, and new research directions that together shape the institute’s intellectual agenda.
Major focus areas
Odia as a Classical Language
IOSR’s first major project documented the antiquity, literary continuity, and script heritage of Odia, contributing to the 2014 recognition of Odia as a Classical Language.
Origin and Development of Indian Script
A flagship project exploring script evolution through comparative study of cave paintings, inscriptions, and related writing traditions.
Computational Linguistics
Research efforts include OCR, text-to-speech, parser development, POS tagging, named entity recognition, and corpus-building for Odia.
Completed and established work
- Classical Language research on Odia’s linguistic and literary antiquity.
- Sanskrit manuscript and inscription research, including epigraphic studies.
- Conference-driven paper publication and national knowledge exchange.
Ongoing and emerging work
- Origin and development of Indian script.
- Ancient trade and traditional festivals of Odisha.
- Women’s empowerment in Odisha.
- Computational linguistics and language technology for Odia.
Research timeline
2014 milestone
The research effort supporting classical language recognition became a defining institutional achievement and a major public contribution.
2016 onward
The collaboration with Utkal University opened structured work in natural language processing and computational tools for Odia.
Current phase
Research increasingly connects scholarship with textbooks, digital tools, public policy support, and accessible learning resources.