Fwd: Tamil Inaiyam 2000 - call for papers and discussions
Prasad Velusamy
prasad_velusamy at HOTMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 16 13:20:33 UTC 2000
From: "K. Kalyanasundaram" <kalyan at softhome.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:40:17 +0200
TAMIL INAIYAM 2000
International Conference on Tamil Information Processing and
Resources on the Internet
to be held in Singapore during 22-24 July 2000
Tamilnet conferences are annual forums for all those interested
in "Tamil Information Processing and Resources on the Internet".
The first one in this series, Tamilnet97 organized by National
Univ. of Singapore was held in Singapore during 17-18 May 1997.
The second one, Taminet99, organized by IT Task Force of the
Tamilnadu Govt, was held in Chennai during 7-8 Feb. 1999.
Tamil Inaiyam 2000, the Third International Conference on Tamil
Internet (which was to be held in Colombo on March 13th and 14th)
is now scheduled to be held in Singapore from 22 to 24 JULY 2000.
The website <www.tamilinaiyam2000.org> will serve as the official
website for the conference. Please visit this website regularly
to learn more details on the conference, online registration etc.
The conference is being organized by the Tamil Internet Steering
Committee (TISC) of Singapore (with Mr. R. Ravindran, Member of
Parliament, Singapore and Mr. Arun Mahizhnan, Dy. Director, Inst.
of Policy Studies, Singapore as Co-Chairs) in close collaboration
with the IT Task Force of Tamilnadu Govt (with Prof. M.
Anandakrishnan as the Head) and Official Languages Commission of
Sri Lanka (Dr.Sivathasan, Director). I have agreed to the request
of these folks to serve as a Co-Chair (with Dr. Desai Narasimhalu
ofSingapore) for the Technical Programme Sub-committee.
Following is a short line of various topics that will be taken
up for discussion and further action at this TI2000 conference.
Area I - Language & Education
-- A standard reference source for computer-related terms (a Glossary)
in Tamil for use in softwares and on Internet
-- Online Dictionaries /Lexicon/Thesauras ?
-- Computer-aided Teaching of Tamil in classrooms & online
( materials, tools, databases, delivery mode)
-- Tamil Virtual University & A network of online and virtual
campuses for Tamil across the globe
-- Digital Archives of Tamil Literary works, doctoral dissertations,
... (data storage formats, international catalog, copyright issues,
collaboration amongst existing and planned initiatives)
Area II: Technology
(Tamil usage at Personal level and on Internet)
-- Multimedia Tools: OCR, voice recognition, speech synthesis,
natural language processing,....
-- Tamil Search Engines
-- Interface tools/APIs for information flow across platforms
and across different encodings
-- Information processing and exchange on mobile computer platforms
-- Java based tools for online Spell checker, dictionary,...
(interactive usage of Tamil online/on Internet)
-- Softwares for automated translation of Tamil texts to other
languages and vice versa
Area III: Technical Standards and Agreements
-- Character and Glyph encoding standards (>50 -> 2 or 3 -> Unicode ?)
-- Unicode Tamil Segment - pros and cons for possible revision
-- A Standard for Transliterated (& transcription mode) of romanized
Tamil
-- Tamil Script refrom (ukara & Ukara varisai)
-- Transcription of foreign sounds in Tamil script (incl. alternates
to granthas)
-- Domain Name registration in Tamil
Area IV: Ecommerce
-- Information processing of larger Databases in Tamil (include
Interface tools/APIs for input querries and output in
different encodings (& languages?)
-- dedicated softwares for Tamil businesses (billing, finance
management, warehousing, dispatch, order tracking,..)
-- industry trends
Area V: Organization
-- National and regional Steering Groups devoted to Tamil Computing
-- Launch of An International Forum for Info. Technology in Tamil (INFITT)
-- Tamilnet conferences - suggestions on content, calender, venue, ....
A strong appeal is being made here to all those interested in the
above topics to participate at the forthcoming TI2000 conference.
It will be an excellent opportunity for direct input in the form
of paper or poster presentations, participations in the technical
discussions and learn (& have hands on Demos) on the growing
number of softwares for Tamil computing etc.
In view of the changed venue and the date, the DEADLINE FOR
SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS (paper presentations orally and/or
posters) IS BEING EXTENDED TO 15 May 2000.
Those interested may choose a "topic" and present their views on
the current status and offer suggestions for further course of
action relating to the chosen topic. You can send in your intentions
(with details) to participate in the Technical discussions to me
via email <kalyan at softhome.net> (in case of problems to
kalyan at dcsun1.epfl.ch) from now on with a copy to
<arun_mahizhnan at ips.org.sg> and <ananda at eth.net>. Details on
the list of speakers at various sessions and on poster presentations
will beannounced in the second half of May 2000.
Please distribute the above information widely and post to Tamil
academic mailing lists that you subscribe to.
K. Kalyanasundaram
<kalyan at softhome.net> or <kalyan at dcsun1.epfl.ch>
Lausanne, Switzerland
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