LIST OF PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PRESENTATION
AT THE TAMIL INTERNET 2002 CONFERENCE

Foster City, California, USA, Sept 24-26, 2002

Topic
Tamil Unicode
1. Unicode and Tamil: The State of the World
Mr. Michael S. Kaplan, Trigeminal Softwares, USA 		Click here to download
2. Issues in Indic Language Collation
Ms. Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA 		Click here to download
3. Sorting It All Out: An introduction to Collation
Ms. Cathy Wissink (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
Mr. Michael S. Kaplan (Trigeminal Softwares, USA) 		Click here to download
4. An investigation on Unicode Standards for Tamil
Prof. M. Ponnavaiko, Tamil Virtual Univ, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
5. Optimisation Techniques in Unicode Tamil Font Development
Mr. A. Elangovan, Cadgraf Computers, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
6.Glyph Choices and Techniques for Building Unicode Based Tamil Fonts
Muthu Nedumaran , Malaysia 		Click here to download


Topic
Tamil Implementation, Search Engines
1. Indic Writing Systems on the Java(TM) 2 Platform
Naoto Sato, Java Internationalization, Sun Microsystems, CA, USA 		Click here to download
2. Indic Language Support in Oracle Systems,
Shashank Shekhar, Senior Development Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore 		Click here to download
3. PONN: a Tamil Operating Environment
P. Prasanna Venkatesan, T. Chitralekha and P. Kuppuswami,
Dept of Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India 		Click here to download
4.Tamil Search Engine
Mr. Baskaran Sankaran, Anna Univ- KBC Research Center,
Madras Inst of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
5. Encoding Detection in Internet Search Engines
D. Sivaraj, TN, USA 		Click here to download
6. TSCII Interface to Online Tamil Lexicon at Cologne
Subramanian Anbumani, Virginia Polytech. Univ, Blacksburg, VA, USA 		Click here to download
7. The Morphological Generator and Parsing Engine for Tamil Verb Forms
R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download
8. A robust method for searching across mixed transliterated Tamil texts
K. Rajaraman, Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore &
V.S. Senthilkumar, Array networks, CA, USA 		Click here to download


Topic
Machine Translation of Tamil Materials
1. An Interactive Approach to Development of English-Tamil
Machine Translation System on the Web.
Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Department of South Asia Regional Studies &
Penn Language Center, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 		Click here to download
2. Russian to Tamil Machine Translation System at Tamil University
Dr. K.C. Chellamuthu (former Prof. at Tamil Univ, Tanjore),
Network Appliances, Sunnyvale, California, USA 		Click here to download
3. Machine Translation as related to Tamil
Mr. B. Kumara Shanmugam, Anna Univ-KBC Center for Internet Research,
Madras Inst. of Technology, Chrompet, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download
4. The Challenges in designing English to Tamil Machine Aided Translation Packages,
Mr. R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download
5. Preliminaries for Digitizing the Personal Pronoun in English into Tamil
(Distribution -Sensitive Machine Translation Aid (DSMTA) - A Demo Paper,
Dr. S. Kamatshi, Lecturer in Linguistics studies Unit, Dept of Tamil Language,
Madras University, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
6. The Morphophonemic Rule for Tamil Computing
Mr. R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download


Topic
Optical Character Recognition, Speech/voice Recognition, ....
1. OCR Software for Printed Tamil Text
Dr. V. Krishnamoorthy, Professor, Crescent Engg College, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
2. Bilingual (Tamil - Roman) Text Recognition on Windows
Aparna K G, Dhanya D and Dr. A G Ramakrishnan, Indian Inst of Science, Bangalore 		Click here to download
3. Parallel Processing in OCR - A Multithreaded approach
G L Jayavardhana Rama, A G Ramakrishnan and Devaraj Gupta,
Dept. of Electrical Engg, Indian Inst of Science, Bangalore, India 		Click here to download
4. Tamil IT: Interactive Speech Translation in Tamil
K.M. Ganesh and S. Subramanian,
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India 		Click here to download
5. A Two Stage Classification Approach to Tamil Handwriting Recognition
S. Hewavitharana, Department of Computer Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. &
H.C. Fernando, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka. 		Click here to download
6. ¸½½¢ô ÀÂýÀ¡ðÊü¸¡É ¾Á¢ú ´Ä¢ÂÉ¢Âø Å¢¾¢¸û
¬÷. ШÃÀ¡ñÊ. «øʧÁð …¡ùð§Å÷ ¦…øä„ý, ¾¢ñθø, ¾Á¢ú¿¡Î
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7. Thirukkural II - A Text-to-Speech Synthesis System
P. Prathibha, A. G. Ramakrishnan, R. Muralishankar,
Dept of Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 		Click here to download
8. Web-enabled Speech Synthesizer for Tamil,
P. Prathiba and A.G. Ramakrishnnan,
Dept. of Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 		Click here to download


Topic
Computer-aided Teaching of Tamil (Multimedia- or Online/Web-assisted)
1. Tamil Teaching via Distance Learning: Achievements and Prospects for the Future
Prof. Harold F. Schiffman, Penn Language Center, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA, USA 		Click here to download
2. The Singapore Tamil Classroom Challenge, Teaching Strategies and
Tamil Internet - Striking The Perfect Balance,
Mrs. Ravindran, Chua Chu Kang Primary School, Singapore 		Click here to download
3. E - Learning in Tamil - The Singapore Tamil Classroom Journey,
Miss Sandi Perumal ( Kranji Primary School, Singapore ) &
Mrs. Kalyani Rajendran ( Princess Elizabeth Primary School, Singapore ) 		Click here to download
4. þÇïº¢í¨¸Â÷ ¸ñ¼ ¸¨Ä «ÛÀÅÓõ ÁÉ¢¾§¿ÂÓõ
¿¡.ÍôÃÁ½¢Âõ, Ţ짼¡Ã¢Â¡ ÀûÇ¢, º¢í¨¸ 		Click here to download
5. ¸øÅ¢ ¦Áý¦À¡Õû¸¨Çô ÀÂýÀÎò¾¢ ¾Á¢ú¦Á¡Æ¢ ¸üÀ¢ò¾ø - µ÷ «ÛÀÅõ,
Mohamed Shariff H.A, Subject co-ordinator - Tamil Language,
Anglo-Chinese School(Independent), Singapore 		Click here to download
6. ¸½¢É¢ ÅÆ¢ ¾Á¢ú ¸üÀ¢ò¾ø: ¯îºÃ¢ôÒì ¸üÀ¢ò¾ø
Ó¨ÉÅ÷ ÍÀ. ¾¢ñ½ôÀý, º¢í¸ôâ÷ §¾º¢Â Àø¸¨Äì ¸Æ¸õ 		Click here to download
7. þÄì¸ôÀ¡ÊÔõ þÄò¾¢Ãý ¸øÅ¢Ôõ (Digital Learning in Digital Village)
Ms. Subashini Kanagasundaram, Hewlett-Packard, Boeblingen, Germany 		Click here to download
8. ¸½¢É¢/þ¨½Âõ ÅÆ¢ô §ÀîÍò ¾Á¢ú ¸üÀ¢ò¾ø
Ó¨ÉÅ÷ ¦º. ƒ£ý Ä¡ÈýŠ, ¯Ä¸ò ¾Á¢Æ¡Ã¡ö ¿¢ÚÅÉõ, ¦ºý¨É, þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
9. ¸½¢½¢ ÅƢ¡¸ þÄ츽 þÄ츢 ¦Á¡Æ¢ô À½¢¸û
¼¡ì¼÷. Å¡. Ó. §º. ÓòÐáÁÄ¢í¸ ¬ñ¼Å÷, ÀÂôÀý ¸øæâ, ¦ºý¨É &
¾¢Õ. ¸Å¢Âúý, ¿¢Ô¦ƒ÷…¢, ¿¢Ô¡÷ì, «¦Áâ측 		Click here to download
10. The usage of Tamil Softwares and Web-pages in the teaching
and learning of Tamil Language in Malaysian Tamil Schools.
M. Paramasivam, University Putra Malaysia, Selongor, Malaysia 		Click here to download
11. ÁøðÊÁ£Ê¡ + ¸øÅ¢ ¸üÚÅ¢ò¾ø = ±¾¢÷¸¡Ä ¸øŢ¢Âø
¾¢. Á½¢ & «. þầ¸¡ÀÄý, ¦ºý¨Éô Àø¸¨Äì ¸Æ¸õ, ¦ºý¨É , þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
12. Learning and Teaching Languages with Internet-Web
Mr, Siva Pillai, Goldsmith College, Univ of London, London, UK 		Click here to download
13.. Multimedia-assisted Teaching of Tamil,
Eric Miller, Doctoral Student in Tamil folklore, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA, USA 		Click here to download
14. Multimedia & Online resource based teaching in Tamil
Dr. M. Ponnavaiko, Director, Tamil Virtual University 		Click here to download
15. Literary enrichment with IT resources
Dr.A. Ra. Sivakumaran, National Institute of Education, Singapore 		Click here to download
16. Tamil Educational Multimedia Software Creation made Easy - An Experience"
R. Kalaimani, National Institute of Education, singapore 		Click here to download
17. ¾Á¢úì ÌÆ󨾸ÙìÌ ¸½¢É¢ ÅÆ¢ì ¸øÅ¢
¬÷ À츢⺡Á¢, µöצÀüÈ Á¢ýº¡Ã ¦À¡È¢Â¡Ç÷, ¦ºý¨É 		Click here to download


Topic
Tamil Digital Texts, E-archiving of Heritage Materials, E-publishing, ...
1. Digitizing Heritage Materials - Promises and Problems!
Dr. N. Kannan, Tamil Heritage Foundation, Boeblingen, Germany 		Click here to download
2. Prospects for Machine Translation of the Tamil Language
Fredric C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley 		Click here to download
3. Unicode-Based Digital Databases for Tamil Cultural Heritage Materials
K. Kalyanasundaram (Lausanne, Switzerland) &
Muthu Nedumaran, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 		Click here to download
4. Optimisation Techniques for Scanning and Processing of Olai Chuvadis:
A. Elangovan, Cadgraf Computers, Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
5. e-publishing in Tamil - Today and Tomorrow
P. Dhanapal, Minveli Media and Language Services, Coimbatore, India 		Click here to download
6. Syntactic Tagging of Tamil Corpus,
K.Rajan , Muthiah Polytechnic College, Annamalainagar, Tamilnadu ,
M.Ganesan, CAS in Linguistics, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar) and
V.Ramalingam, Dept of Computer Science and Engg, Annamalai Univ, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
7. Digital Archives for German-Tamil Studies with particular reference to
some ancient Tamil Heritage Aspects,
Dr. C.S. Mohanavelu, Dept of History, Presidency College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download
8. ¸½½¢ ÁüÚõ ­¨½Âô ÀÂýÀ¡ðÊü¸¡É ÓØò ¦¾¡ÌôÒò ¾Á¢Æ¸Ã¡¾¢
ÅÊŨÁôÒ - º¡ò¾¢Âí¸Ùõ ÓýÁ¡¾¢Ã¢Ôõ
Mr. R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India 		Click here to download
9. þ¨½Âò¾¢ø ¾Á¢ú Ó¾ø áø
Ó¨ÉÅ÷ Ì. À¸Å¾¢ & Ó¨ÉÅ÷ ¦º. ƒ£ý Ä¡ÈýŠ,
¯Ä¸ò ¾Á¢Æ¡Ã¡ö ¿¢ÚÅÉõ, ¦ºý¨É-600 113, þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
10. ¦¾¡ø¸¡ôÀ¢ÂÓõ ¸½¢ô¦À¡È¢ ¸ð¼¨Ç¡ì¸Öõ -
º¢Ä º¢ì¸ø¸û, ¾£÷׸û. ¬ö×î ÍÕì¸õ
Ó¨ÉÅ÷. ¦Å. ¯Á¡,
þó¾¢Ã¡¸¡ó¾¢ ¸¨Ä ÁüÚõ «È¢Å¢Âø ¸øæâ, À¡ñÊâ, þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download


Topic
Tamil Internet - content, search, standards, ...
1. ¯Ä¸ò¾Á¢ú Á¢ý¦ÅÇ¢ - ºÓ¾¡Âõ (World Tamil cyber community) C.M. Elanttamil & N. Selvanathan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Click here to download
2. ¾Á¢ú þ¨½Â ŨÄò¾Çí¸¨Ç ¦¿È¢Ó¨ÈôÀÎò¾Ä¢ý «Åº¢Âõ.
Á. ¦Å.­Ã¡Áîºó¾¢Ã¡, Áì¸û ¾¸Åø ¦¾¡¼÷À¢Âø ШÈ,
Á¡Ã¡ ¦¾¡Æ¢øÑðÀ Àø¸¨Äì¸Æ¸õ, 40450 „¡ «Ä¡õ, Á§Äº¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
3. Need for Tamil Intranet
Mr. C. Sivakumar, M.S (Software Engineer, HCL Technologies Ltd. Chennai) &
Ms. P. Srivalli, Dept of Journalism/Communication, University of Madras, Chennai. 		Click here to download
4. The Role of Subtitling to Tamil Viewers
Dr. Chellamuthu Rajamani, Head, Astro Vanavil Television, Malaysia 		Click here to download


Topic
Bridging Digital Divide, E-governance, Open Source, ....
1. e-Government: The Singapore
Arun Mahizhnan, Inst. of Policy Studies, Singapore &
Narayanan Andiappan, Infocomm Dev. Authority (IDA), Singapore 		Click here to download
2. Imperatives of Local Language Initiatives in e-Governance
M. Anandakrishnan (Chair, INFITT), Chennai, Tamilnadu 		Click here to download
3. Bridging the Digital Divide - A Blueprint for deploying Linux in Tamilnadu Schools
V. Venkataramanan, Photonics Research Ontario, Toronto, Canada 		Click here to download


Topic
Standards for Encoding, Keyboards, Transliteration, Glossary,....
1. Standardization of Encoding Conversion P. Chellappan, Palaniappa Brothers, Chennai Click here to download
2. Transliteration of Indic Scripts : Implementation in ICU (International Components
of Unicode) and Lessons Learned
Raghuram Viswanadha, IBM Globalization Center of Competency, San Jose, CA, USA 		Click here to download
3. Transliteration of Tamil to English for the Information Technology,
'jAzhan' Ramalingam Shanmugalingam ('appuAcci'), San Diego, CA, USA 		Click here to download
4. Extensible Technologies for Writing System Implementation
Sharon Correll, SIL International, Dallas, Texas, USA 		Click here to download
5. ¸¨Ä¡øÄ¡ì¸Óõ º¢Ä º¢ì¸ø¸Ùõ,
Á¡.¬ñ§¼¡À£ð¼÷, Ó.º¢ÅÄ¢í¸õ, ¾Á¢Æ¸ «Ãº¢ý ¾¸Åø ¦¾¡Æ¢üÑðÀìÌØ ¯ÚôÀ¢É÷¸û 		Click here to download
6. ¸½¢É¢ ¦¾¡¼÷À¡É ¸¨Ä¡ø ¬ì¸ ¦¿È¢Ó¨È¸û.
Á. ¦Å.­Ã¡Áîºó¾¢Ã¡, Áì¸û ¾¸Åø ¦¾¡¼÷À¢Âø ШÈ,
Á¡Ã¡ ¦¾¡Æ¢øÑðÀ Àø¸¨Äì¸Æ¸õ, 40450 „¡ «Ä¡õ, Á§Äº¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
7. «È¢Å¢Âø ¯¨Ã째¡¨Å
Ó¨ÉÅ÷ þᾡ ¦ºøÄôÀý, ¾Á¢Æ¢Âø ШÈ, À¡Ã¾¢¾¡ºý Àø¸¨Äì¸Æ¸õ, ¾¢Õ
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Topic
Tamil Script Reform, Language evolution, & Others
1. ¾Á¢ú ±ØòÐî º£÷¨Á (º¡Ã¡õºõ 1.12)
º¢ýÉòШà ‚Å¡Š BSc (º¢ýÉòШà ‚ź󧾊ÅÃý) 		Click here to download
2. ¯Ä¸¦Á¡Æ¢¸Ç¢ø ¾Á¢ú
Ó¨ÉÅ÷.Ì.«Ã§ºó¾¢Ãý,
¦ºý ¨Éì ¸¢È¢ò¾Åì ¸øæâ, ¦ºý ¨É, ¾Á¢ú¿¡Î, þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
3. ¾¡ö «Ó¾õ ¾Á¢ú
¸¢. ¯Á¡Á§¸ŠÅâ, ¦¼ì§É¡º¡ôð ¸õôäð¼÷ À¡÷ì, 42,
¦Àñ¨½ ¿¸÷, §¸¡ñÎ÷ «ïºø, ¸¼Ö¡÷ 607 002, ¾Á¢ú¿¡Î, þó¾¢Â¡ 		Click here to download
4. ¾Á¢ú¦Á¡Æ¢ «È¢Å¢ÂÖìÌ ²üÈ ¦Á¡Æ¢
¬÷. À츢⺡Á¢, µöצÀüÈ Á¢ýº¡Ã ¦À¡È¢Â¡Ç÷, ¦ºý¨É 		Click here to download
5. Linguistic Demands of Electronic Tamil
R. Natarajan Asst. Editor, The Hindu, Chennai 		Click here to download


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