International Tamil Internet Conference (ITIC) covers research development, advances in several key areas of Tamil computing and Information Technology. Over 1000 papers have been presented in the technical sessions of 19 conferences held during the past two decades. All papers are available online in a fully searchable database at:
https://www.uttamam.org/infitt_papers.php
Here is a short, representative collection of papers in different areas presented in the Tamil Internet Conferences. PDF of the listed papers can be accessed at the above online database (search using the numbers indicated at the beginning 03.04 etc).
Tools for Natural Language Processing
01.33 Morphological Generator for Tamil P. Anandan, Dr. Ranjani Parthasarathy & Dr. T.V. Geetha, Anna Univ, Chennai
03.04 Tamil Spell Checker T Dhanabalan, Ranjani Parthasarathi and T.V. Geetha.
03.05 Syntactic Parser for Tamil K. Saravanan, Ranjani Parthasarathi and T.V. Geetha
11.41 An Efficient Tamil Text Compaction System N.M. Revathi, G.P.Shanthi, Elanchezhiyan.K, T V Geetha, Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa), College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai.
11.43 Lyric Mining: Word, Rhyme & Concept Co-occurrence Analysis Karthika Ranganathan, T.V Geetha, Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa), College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai.
13.36. Identification of Tamizh script on Tablet PC, Bhargava Urala, A G Ramakrishnan
14.06 Recognition of online captured, handwritten Tamil words on Android A G Ramakrishnan and Bhargava Urala K
14.11 Open source TamilNet99 keyboard for Android Shiva Kumar H. R. and A. G. Ramakrishnan
15.40 Open Source Projects And “Free” Software For Tamil Computing A G Ramakrishnan, Shiva Kumar HR
15.58 Read Tamil Webpage In Kannada And Vice Versa A G Ramakrishnan, Royal Denzil Sequiera, Shashank S Rao & Shiva Kumar HR
13.24. Semi-Automatic Query Testing Tool, Ganesh J, UmaMaheswari E, T V Geetha, Ranjani Parthasarathi
Optical Character Recognition OCR
00.25 A complete OCR for printed Tamil Text A.G. Ramakrishnan and E. Mahata, Dept of Electrical Engs, Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore, India
01.13 Tamil GNANI- an OCR for windows Aparna K G and A G Ramakrishnan, Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore, India
01.15 On Developing OCR Software for Tamil Dr V Krishnamoorthy (Former Professor Of Anna University) Inforeed, Adayar, Chennai 600 020
02.21 OCR Software for Printed Tamil Text Dr. V. Krishnamoorthy, Professor, Crescent Engg College, Chennai, Tamilnadu
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
03.07 A Complete OCR System Development of Tamil Magazine Documents K.H. Aparna and V.S. Chakravarthy..
10.54 Design and Evaluation of Omnifont Tamil OCR Tushar Patnaik
11.22 Tamil Online handwriting recognition using fractal features Rituraj Kunwar and A G Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
17.01 Enhancing Tamil document images for better OCR recognition Ram Krishna Pandey and AG Ramakrishnan
14.03 Tesseract OCR – Trainer GUI for Tamil Language B. Aarthidevi, R. Priya Anand S & K. Balavignesh
14.05 Intelligent Training for Tamil Character Recognition using Tesseract OCR S.Udhayakumar and K.Sibi
17.01 Enhancing Tamil document images for better OCR recognition Ram Krishna Pandey and AG Ramakrishnan
18.18 Recognizing Tamil characters from Inscriptions using Digital Image Processing T Manikandan, GKM College of Engg, Perungkalatthur, Chennai
Speech recognition, synthesis
01.24 Tamil Voice Engine Madhan Karky V, Sudarsanan N, Thiyagarajan R, Manoj Annadurai, Dr.Ranjani Parthasarathi and Dr.T.V.Geetha, Anna University, Chennai
01.25 Human Touch to Tamil Speech Synthesizer R. Murali Shankar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, Indian Inst. of Science; Bangalore, India
01.26 Text to Speech Synthesis Dr. A.G. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
04.19 Improved Tamil Text to Speech Synthesis M.Vinu Krithiga * and T.V.Geetha (Anna Univ. Chennai, 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
04.16 Matrubhasha – An Integrated Speech Framework for Indian Languages Sireesha Sarma, R.K.V.S. Raman, S.Sridevi, Rekha Thomas (CDAC, Bangalore)
04.17 Speech Recognizer for Tamil Language R. Arun Thilak* and Mrs. R. Madharaci (Venkateswara College of Engg, Sriperumpudur, India)
04.18 Alaigal-A Tamil Speech Recognition A.P.Henry Charles and G.Devaraj (VelTech Engg College, Chennai, India)
04.19 Improved Tamil Text to Speech Synthesis M.Vinu Krithiga * and T.V.Geetha (Anna Univ. Chennai, India)
10.56 Bilingual TTS for Tamil and English A G Ramakrishnan
13.19. Modeling basic emotions for Tamil speech synthesis, A G Ramakrishnan and Lakshmi Chithambaran
17.03 Deep neural network based medium vocabulary continuous speech recognition system for Tamil Madhavaraj A and Ramakrishnan AG
16.50 Ontology Based Tamil Dictionary (OBTD) Ravi Lourdusamy, Joseph Merlin Florrence, Tamilselvan Manivannan
15.54 A Cloud Based Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System For Tamil Sunil Sivadass, Lim Boon Pang, Thai Ngoc Thuy Huong Helen, Muthalagu Meyyappan, Ma Bin, Haizhou Li
18.33 Development of Tamil Spell and Sandhi Checkers in a Crowd-Sourcing Environment Vasu Renganathan, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Machine translation of Text/documents
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
16.37 Tamil oriented machine translation systems under Indian Language to Indian Language Machine translation (ILILMT) consortium
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
10.35 Tamil – Hindi Bidirectional Machine Translation System for Web Data Sobha Lalitha Devi
12.38 Development of Telugu-Tamil Bidirectional Machine Translation System: A special focus on case divergence Parameswari K, Sreenivasulu N.V. Uma Maheshwar Rao G, Christopher M Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad
14.23 Issues while developing Sangam Tamil-English Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation System Dr. K. Umaraj
15.56 An Rule Based Technique For Handling Prepositional Phrases With Less Ambiguity In English-Tamil Machine Translation Mrs. S. Suganthi, Dr.K.G.Srinivasagan, Mrs.P.Bamaruckmani
10.75 Pattern Based English-Tamil Machine Translation S. Saravanan et al.
11.25 Morphology based Factored Statistical Machine Translation (F-SMT) system from English to Tamil Anand Kumar M1, Dhanalakshmi V1, Soman K P1, Rajendran S2 1Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore, India, 2Tamil University, Thanjavur,India.
Search Engines
10.37 CoRe – A Framework for Concept Relation Based Advanced Search Engine T V Geetha
11.04 Kuralagam – Concept Relation based Search Engine for Thirukkural Elanchezhiyan.K, T V Geetha, Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky, Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa) College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
13.20. Conceptual Based Search Engine (Cbse) System For Tamil And English, Saviya shree K V, Umamaheswari E, Balaji J, T V Geetha, Ranjani Parthasarathi
Chatbot
03.14 POONGKUZHALI – An Intelligent Tamil Chatterbot Kalaiyarasi, Ranjani Parthasarathi and T.V. Geetha..
AI, augmented reality ,..
18.16 Engaging Augmented Reality and Collaborating With Learners to Inspire and Maximize Learning of Tamil Language MM Shah (Shahul Hameed), Bedok View Secondary School, Singapore
17.24 Engaging Augmented Reality and Collaborating With Leamers To Inspire and Maximize Leaming of Tamil Language Shahul Hameed MM (Shah)
Assistive technologies for physically challenged
13.30. A tool that converted 200 Tamil books for use by blind students, Shiva Kumar H R, A G Ramakrishnan
16.52 Communicational device for Visual and Hearing Impaired through Speech Recognition and Braille Output
17.05 Enhancement of noisy Tamil speech for improved quality of perception for the hearing impaired KV Vijay Girish and A G Ramakrishnan
18.34 Thirukkural implementation: Tamil Braille to Speech and Speech to Tamil Braille Ajantha Devi, Guru Nanak College
Digital Databases
17.29 Digitization, Distribution and Synthesizing Tamil Texts: Challenges of taking Madurai Project to its next step K. Kalyanasundaram and Vasu Renganathan
17.30 A Newly Digitalized Archive of Tamil Texts, Video, Audio and other Graphic Materials Brenda Beck
17.07 NLP & Machine Learning Challenges of Machine Learning with Tamil Texts from Ancient to Modern Tamil Vasu Renganathan
18.49 Tamil newspaper corpus analysis V. Dhanalakshmi et al, Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai
18.35 Corpus analysis of cAvu and maranam Ganesan Ambedkar, Dravidian University, Kuppam