Time
| Program | |
15.00 - 16.00
| Inagural Ceremony | |
| 16.00 - 16.30
| Coffee Break
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16.30 - 18.00
Chair: Vasu Renganathan | Plenary Session i)Mr. Muthu Nedumaran: Tamil on mobile devices : Challenges and Opportunities ii) Dr. Thomas Malten: Online Tamil Dictionaries iii)Prof. A.G. Ramakrishnan: மநுமொழி ஆய்வகம் : R & D work on Multifont OCR, SAPI Compatible TTS and Online Handwritten Word Recognition for Tamil. |
| Time | Program சிங்கைத் தமிழர் நா. கோவிந்தசாமி அரங்கு | |
09.00 - 10.30 | Session A1: Computer Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil i) Ms. Devaki Annusami and D. Mathialagan: E-learning to enahnce language Proficiency ii)Ms. Kalaiselvi: இணைய வகுப்பறை:தொழில் நுட்பமும் கற்போர் உளவியலும் iii)Ms. Kanmani Shanmugam: Learning Tamil the Fun way | |
09.00 - 10.30 | Session B1: Tamil Localisation, Tamil Keyboard and Open Source Software i) Mr. G. Balachandran: Tamil Encoding, Keyboard Layout and Collation Sequence Standard for ICT Sri Lanka ii) Mr. K. Sarveswaran: Tamil Localisation Process- A case study iii) Mr. Sinnathurai Srivas: Inside Tamil Unicode | |
| 10.30 - 11.00
| Coffee Break
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Time
| Program
சென்னைத் தமிழர் சுஜாதா அரங்கு | |
11.00 - 12.30
Chair: Subashini, T. | Session B2: Tamil localization, Tamil keyboard, open-source software & mobile applications i) Mr. Elanttamil: தமிழ் திறவூற்று மென்பொருள்கள் ii) Mr. Sivarajah Anuraj: தமிழ் மென்பொருள்களும் மக்கள் பாவனையும் iii) Gnana Bharathi, D (CLRI, Chennai, India) அறிவியல் மற்றும் தற்காலத் தேவைகளுக்கேற்ற தமிழெழுத்துச் சீர்திருத்தமும் அவற்றைக் கணினி மற்றும் கைபேசி செயல்பாட்டிற்குப் பயன்படுத்தும் முறையும் | |
11.00 - 12.30
| Session A2: Morphology and Tagger i) Achutan Menon et al. (Leiden, Netherlands & Amrita Univ, Coimbatore, India) Amrita Morph Analyzer and Generator for Tamil : a rule based approach ii) Anand Kumar, M (Amrita Univ, Coimbatore, India) A novel approach to Morphological Analysis of Tamil iii) Dhanalakshmi, V (Amrita Univ, Coimbatore, India) POS Tagger and chunker for Tamil Language | |
| 12.30 - 13.30
| Lunch Break
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Time
| Program
ஈழத் தமிழர் சண்முகலிங்கம் இராமலிங்கம் அரங்கு | |
13.30 - 15.00
Chair: Achutan Menon | Session B3: Tamil Portal: Blogger, Aggregator, Wikipedia etc. i) Dr. N. Ganesan: Unicode Blog Aggregators and Linguistic Research ii) Dr. E. Iniya Nehru: Automatic E-content Generation iii) Dr. G. Singaravelu: Effectiveness of Multimedia Package in Learning Vocabulary in Tamil | |
13.30 - 15.00
Chair: Seetha Lakshmi | Session A3: Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning of Tamil i) Dr.A.R. Sivakumaran: பேச்சுத் தமிழைக் கற்பித்தலில் கணினியின் பயன்பாடு ii) Ms. Sivagouri Kaliamoorthy: Enhancing learning of Tamil Language in a one-to-one computing environment iii) Ms. S. Swarnalatha : E_mt2 M-learning makes Tamil Learning Squared | |
| 15.00 - 15.30
| Coffee Break
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| Program: அரபுத் தமிழர் உமர் அரங்கு நினைவு கூறுபவர் – நா. கணேசன். | ||
15.30 - 17.00
Chair: Muthu Nedumaran | Session B4: Tamil Portal: Blogger, Aggregator, Wikipedia etc. i) Mr. Diraviyam S. Maniam : IDNs (International Domain Names) and its progress in ICANN ii) Prof. A. Muthukumar : Development of Social Networking website and Tamil e-learning software using Unicode ii) Dr. S.K. Panneerselvam : இணையம் வழி மொழிக் கற்றல் - கற்பித்தலில் புதிய அணுகுமுறைகள் | |
15.30 - 17.00
| Session A4: Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning of Tamil i) Dr.R. Velmurugan: Development of e-content for learning Tamil phonetics ii) Prof. Paul Dhanasekaran: The Use of Technology among Tamil Medium Students – Barriers and Solutions iii) Dr.R. Subramani : The Use of Multi Media in Teaching Tamil through Internet (இணைய வழித் தமிழ்க் கற்பித்தலில் பல்ஊடகங்களின் பயன்பாடு) | |
| 17.00 - 18.00
| INFITT Annual GB Meeting
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Sunday, 25 October 2009
Time
| Program | |
09.00 - 10.30 | Session A5: Tamil Diaspora, Teaching Tamil as a Second Language and impact of Technology | |
09.00 - 10.30
Chair: Balachandran, G. | Session B5: Online Databases i) Thenmozhi Durairaj (SSN College, Chennai, India) Tamil-English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval System for Agriculture ii) Chevillard, Jean-Luc (CNRS Paris, France) Critical editions of Tamil works: exploratory survey and future perspectives iii) Harold F. Schiffman: & Vasu Renganathan The English Dictionary of Tamil Verbs: What can we learn about structure of Tamil from Electronic Databases? | |
10.30 - 11.00
| Coffee Break
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Time
| Program | |
11.00 - 12.30
Chair: Arun Mahizhnan | Session A6: Tamil Diaspora, Teaching Tamil as a second-language and impact of Technology & Database of Tamil Inscriptions i) Nakkeeran, P.R. (Tamil Virtual University, Chennai, India) Tamil Virtual University - activities and challenges (India) Enhancing the Process of Learning Tamil with Synchronized Media ii) Murugaiyan, Appasamy (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France) Tamil Inscriptions and online search: Database Compilation, Grammatical analysis and Translation. iii) Vasu Renganathan (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Enhancing the Process of Learning Tamil with Synchronized Media | |
11.00 - 12.30 | Session B6: Natural Language Processing: OCR, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation i) Mala Nehru (T Mala) (Anna Univ, Chennai, India) An Intelligent System for Pictures based on Tamil Sentences Generation ii) M.B.A.Salai Aaviyamma, SRM University, Ramapuram, and Dr.K.Kathiravan, Easwari Enginnering Collge, Ramapuram Problems related to English-Tamil Translation iii) Ganesan, Marappa (Annamalai Univ, Annamalainagar, India) Tamil Corpus Generation and Text Analysis & Unsupervised Approach to Tamil Morpheme Segmentation | |
12.30 - 13.30
| Lunch Break
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Time
| Program | |
13.30 - 15.00
Chair: E. Iniya Nehru | Session A7: Computational Linguistics i) David Prabhakar, P (Madras Christian College, Chennai, India) Computer Analysis of Tamil Verb Forms ii) Rajendran, Sankaravelayudam (Tamil University, Tanjore, India) Dravidian Wordnet iii) BalaSundaraRaman L, Ishwar S, Bangalore, India Context-free grammar for Ezutthadhigaaram of the Tolkāppiyam | |
13.30 - 15.00
Chair: Jean-Luc Chevillard | Session B7: Online Databases | |
15.00 - 15.30
| Coffee Break
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15.30 - 17.00
Chair: Balasundara Raman | Session B8: Open source keyboard interface, Unicode font in Mac OS & Dictionary Database i) A. G. Ramakrishnan: பன்மொழி வாயில் : An Open Source Multilingual Indic Keyboard Interface ii) Muthu Nedumaran: Building Tamil Unicode Fonts for Mac OS X | |
17.00 - 18.00
| Closing Session
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