02.01 Unicode and Tamil: The State of the World Mr. Michael S. Kaplan, Trigeminal Softwares, USA
02.02 Issues in Indic Language Collation Ms. Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
02.03 Sorting It All Out: An introduction to Collation Ms. Cathy Wissink (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA; Mr. Michael S. Kaplan (Trigeminal Softwares, USA)
02.04 An investigation on Unicode Standards for Tamil Prof. M. Ponnavaiko, Tamil Virtual Univ, Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.05 Optimisation Techniques in Unicode Tamil Font Development Mr. A. Elangovan, Cadgraf Computers, Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.06 Glyph Choices and Techniques for Building Unicode Based Tamil Fonts Muthu Nedumaran , Malaysia
02.07 Indic Writing Systems on the Java(TM) 2 Platform Naoto Sato, Java Internationalization, Sun Microsystems, CA, USA
02.08 Indic Language Support in Oracle Systems, Shashank Shekhar, Senior Development Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
02.09 PONN: a Tamil Operating Environment P. Prasanna Venkatesan, T. Chitralekha and P. Kuppuswami, Dept of Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
02.10 Tamil Search Engine Mr. Baskaran Sankaran, Anna Univ- KBC Research Center, Madras Inst of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.11 Encoding Detection in Internet Search Engines D. Sivaraj, TN, USA
02.12 TSCII Interface to Online Tamil Lexicon at Cologne Subramanian Anbumani, Virginia Polytech. Univ, Blacksburg, VA, USA
02.13 The Morphological Generator and Parsing Engine for Tamil Verb Forms R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India
02.14 A robust method for searching across mixed transliterated Tamil texts K. Rajaraman, Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore & V.S. Senthilkumar, Array networks, CA, USA
02.15 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
02.16 Russian to Tamil Machine Translation System at Tamil University Dr. K.C. Chellamuthu (former Prof. at Tamil Univ, Tanjore), Network Appliances, Sunnyvale, California, USA
02.17 Machine Translation as related to Tamil Mr. B. Kumara Shanmugam, Anna Univ-KBC Center for Internet Research, Madras Inst. of Technology, Chrompet, Tamilnadu, India
02.18 The Challenges in designing English to Tamil Machine Aided Translation Packages, Mr. R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India
02.19 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
02.20 The Morphophonemic Rule for Tamil Computing Mr. R. Dhurai Pandi, Ultimate Software Solution, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India
02.21 OCR Software for Printed Tamil Text Dr. V. Krishnamoorthy, Professor, Crescent Engg College, Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.22 Bilingual (Tamil – Roman) Text Recognition on Windows Aparna K G, Dhanya D and Dr. A G Ramakrishnan, Indian Inst of Science, Bangalore
02.23 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
02.24 Tamil IT: Interactive Speech Translation in Tamil K.M. Ganesh and S. Subramanian, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
02.25 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.
02.26 kaṇaṇip payaṉpāṭṭiṟkāṉa tamiḻ oliyaṉiyal vitikaḷ ār. turaipāṇṭi. alṭimēṭsāvṭvērselyūṣaṉ, tiṇṭukal, tamiḻnāṭu
02.27 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
02.28 Web-enabled Speech Synthesizer for Tamil, P. Prathiba and A.G. Ramakrishnnan, Dept. of Electrical Engg, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
02.29 Tamil Teaching via Distance Learning: Achievements and Prospects for the Future Prof. Harold F. Schiffman, Penn Language Center, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
02.30 The Singapore Tamil Classroom Challenge, Teaching Strategies and Tamil Internet – Striking The Perfect Balance, Mrs. Ravindran, Chua Chu Kang Primary School, Singapore
02.31 E – Learning in Tamil – The Singapore Tamil Classroom Journey, Miss Sandi Perumal ( Kranji Primary School, Singapore ) & Mrs. Kalyani Rajendran ( Princess Elizabeth Primary School, Singapore )
02.32 iḷañciṅkaiyar kaṇṭa kalaiaṉupavamum maṉita nēyamum nā.cupramaṇiyam, vikṭōriyā paḷḷi, ciṅkai
02.33 kalvi meṉporuḷkaḷaip payaṉpaṭutti tamiḻmoḻi kaṟpittal – ōr aṉupavam, Mohamed Shariff H.A, Subject co-ordinator – Tamil Language, Anglo- Chinese School (Independent), Singapore
02.34 kaṇiṉivaḻi tamiḻ kaṟpittal: uccarippuk kaṟpittal muṉaivar cupa. tiṇṇappaṉ, ciṅkappūr tēciya palkalaik kaḻakam
02.35 ilakkap pāṭiyum ilattiraṉ kalviyum (Digital Learning in Digital Village) Ms. Subashini Kanagasundaram, Hewlett-Packard, Boeblingen, Germany
02.36 kaṇiṉi/iṇaiyamvaḻip pēccut tamiḻ kaṟpittal muṉaivar ce. jīṉ lāṟaṉs, ulakat tamiḻārāycci niṟuvaṉam, ceṉṉai, intiyā
02.37 kaṇiṇi vaḻiyāka ilakkaṇa ilakkiyamoḻip paṇikaḷ ṭākṭar. vā. mu. cē. mutturāmaliṅka āṇṭavar, paccaiyappaṉ kallūri, ceṉṉai & tiru. kaviyaracaṉ, niyujersi, niyuyārk, amerikkā
02.38 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
02.39 malṭṭi mīṭiyā + kalvi kaṟṟuvittal = etirkāla kalviyiyal ti. maṇi & a. irācakōpalaṉ, ceṉṉaip palkalaikkaḻakam, ceṉṉai , intiyā
02.40 Learning and Teaching Languages with Internet-Web Mr, Siva Pillai, Goldsmith College, Univ of London, London, UK
02.41 Multimedia-assisted Teaching of Tamil, Eric Miller, Doctoral Student in Tamil folklore, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
02.42 Multimedia & Online resource based teaching in Tamil Dr. M. Ponnavaiko, Director, Tamil Virtual University
02.43 Literary enrichment with IT resources Dr.A. Ra. Sivakumaran, National Institute of Education, Singapore
02.44 Tamil Educational Multimedia Software Creation made Easy – An Experience” R. Kalaimani, National Institute of Education, singapore
02.45 tamiḻk kuḻantaikaḷukku kaṇiṉivaḻik kalvi ār. pakkiricāmi, ōyvupeṟṟa miṉcāra poṟiyāḷar, ceṉṉai
02.46 Digitizing Heritage Materials – Promises and Problems! Dr. N. Kannan, Tamil Heritage Foundation, Boeblingen, Germany
02.47 Prospects for Machine Translation of the Tamil Language Fredric C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley
02.47 Unicode-Based Digital Databases for Tamil Cultural Heritage Materials K. Kalyanasundaram (Lausanne, Switzerland) & Muthu Nedumaran, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
02.48 Optimisation Techniques for Scanning and Processing of Olai Chuvadis: A. Elangovan, Cadgraf Computers, Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.49 e-publishing in Tamil – Today and Tomorrow P. Dhanapal, Minveli Media and Language Services, Coimbatore, India
02.50 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
02.51 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
02.53 iṇaiyattil tamiḻ mutalnūl muṉaivar ku. pakavati & muṉaivar ce. jīṉ lāṟaṉs, ulakat tamiḻārāycci niṟuvaṉam, ceṉṉai-600 113, intiyā
02.54 tolkāppiyamum kaṇippoṟi kaṭṭaḷaiyākkalum – cila cikkalkaḷ, tīrvukaḷ. āyvuc curukkam muṉaivar. ve. umā, intirākānti kalai maṟṟum aṟiviyal kallūri, pāṇṭiccēri, intiyā
02.55 ulakat tamiḻmiṉveḷi – camutāyam (World Tamil cyber community) C.M. Elanttamil & N. Selvanathan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
02.56 tamiḻiṇaiya valaittaḷaṅkaḷai neṟimuṟaip paṭuttaliṉ avaciyam. ma. ve. irāmaccantirā, makkaḷ takaval toṭarpiyal tuṟai, mārā toḻilnuṭpa palkalaikkaḻakam, 40450 ṣāalām, malēciyā
02.57 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.
02.58 The Role of Subtitling to Tamil Viewers Dr. Chellamuthu Rajamani, Head, Astro Vanavil Television, Malaysia
02.59 e-Government: The Singapore Arun Mahizhnan, Inst. of Policy Studies, Singapore & Narayanan Andiappan, Infocomm Dev. Authority (IDA), Singapore
02.60 Imperatives of Local Language Initiatives in e-Governance M. Anandakrishnan (Chair, INFITT), Chennai, Tamilnadu
02.61 Bridging the Digital Divide – A Blueprint for deploying Linux in Tamilnadu Schools V. Venkataramanan, Photonics Research Ontario, Toronto, Canada
02.62 Standardization of Encoding Conversion P. Chellappan, Palaniappa Brothers, Chennai
02.63 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
02.64 Transliteration of Tamil to English for the Information Technology, ‘jAzhan’ Ramalingam Shanmugalingam (‘appuAcci’), San Diego, CA, USA
02.65 Extensible Technologies for Writing System Implementation Sharon Correll, SIL International, Dallas, Texas, USA
02.66 kalaiccollākkamum cila cikkalkaḷum, mā. āṇṭō pīṭṭar, mu. civaliṅkam, tamiḻaka araciṉ takavaltoḻiṟnuṭpakkuḻu uṟuppiṉarkaḷ
02.67 kaṇiṉitoṭarpāṉa kalaiccol ākka neṟimuṟaikaḷ. ma. ve. irāmaccantirā, makkaḷ takavaltoṭarpiyal tuṟai, mārā toḻilnuṭpa palkalaikkaḻakam, 40450 ṣāalām, malēciyā
02.68 aṟiviyal uraikkōvai muṉaivar irātā cellappaṉ, tamiḻiyal tuṟai, pāratitācaṉ palkalaikkaḻakam, tirucci
02.69 tamiḻeḻuttuccīrmai (cārāmcam 1.12) ciṉṉatturai śrīvās BSc (ciṉṉatturaiśrīvacantēsvaraṉ)
02.70ulakamoḻikaḷil tamiḻ muṉaivar.ku.aracēntiraṉ, ceṉṉaik kiṟittavak kallūri, ceṉṉai, tamiḻnāṭu
02.71 tāyamutam tamiḻ ki. umāmakēsvari, ṭekṉōcāpṭ kampyūṭṭar pārk, peṇṇainakar, kaṭalu¡r
02.72 tamiḻmoḻi aṟiviyalukku ēṟṟamoḻi ār. pakkiricāmi, ōyvupeṟṟa miṉcāra poṟiyāḷar, ceṉṉa
02.73 Linguistic Demands of Electronic Tamil R. Natarajan Asst. Editor, The Hindu, Chennai