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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR TAMIL INTERNET 2003

CONFERENCE

 

2 January 2003 - INFITT (International Forum for Information

Technology in Tamil) is pleased to inform that the next

International Conference on Information Processing and

Resources on the Internet ("Tamil Internet 2003") - 6th

in the series - will be held in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

during the first week of August 2003.

 

A Technical Programme Committe (TPC) has been formed,

with Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram of Lausanne, Switzerland as the

Chair and Prof. V. Krishnamoorthy of Chennai as Vice-chair

to deal with paper submission and scheduling of the conference

content (invited lectures and submitted papers). Further

details on the conference content, exact dates, venue

and other committees will be announced in due course.

 

We take this opportunity to invite 'technical' papers for

presentation at TI-2003 on all topics relating Tamil with

Computers and/or Internet, on or before 30 APRIL 2003.

"Tamil IT for Education" has been chosen as the theme

for the TI2003 conference.

 

To assist the TPC select papers for oral and poster

presentations, please send us one or two A4 size outline/

summary of your presentation by the above date. Papers may

be presented in English, Tamil or bilingual (Tamil-English)

format.

 

As with the earlier Conferences, all submissions must

be in electronic form. For papers with content in Tamil

or bilingual, please use either TAB or TSCII (version 1.7)

encoding. Characters that are not part of the encoding

used must be included as images (jpg/gif). The outline/summary

of your presentation should also include your full name,

designation, address and contact numbers.

 

There will be a peer review of the submitted papers before

acceptance. In view of our committed goal to raise the

quality of the conference, a limited number of papers

will be selected for oral presentation, possibly with

a longer presentation time (30 mins or more).

 

We would appreciate very much if you take note of the

following deadlines and adhere to them. Authors whose

papers have been selected for presentation at the conference

will be informed by 31 May 2003. Electronic versions

of the accepted papers should reach the TPC on or before

30 June 2003 for them to appear in the official conference

proceedings (printed and electronic versions).

 

The organisers of the conference assume that submission

of a paper for possible presentation at TI2003 implies

attendance at the conference and presentation in person

by at least one author of the paper. This will be irrespective

of whether the organisers can provide any financial support

or not. As in the past, papers presented in the conference

will be archived electronically for distribution through the

INFITT website (in the form of pdf files) and INFITT

will retain rights for this purpose.

 

The following is a short list of topics (by no means exhaustive)

to be covered at the Tamil Internet 2003 Conference:

 

1. Tamil IT for Education

 

(Web/Online-assisted and Multimedia-based Learning

and Teaching of Tamil at all levels)

Learning environments, Learning/Teaching Technologies

Teaching methodologies, Learner support, Courseware engineering,

Courseware evaluation, Instruction design and delivery,

On-line learner assessment, Collaborative learning, Games

and Simulations in learning, Relevance of Video games in

further learning, Evaluation techniques, Usability and

learnability study, user-interface-engineering etc.

 

2. Technology (Localisation/Tamil Enabling & Applications)

 

-- Implementation in different platforms: Windows,

Unix/Linux, MacOS, mobile platforms (PalmOS),

-- Search engines, text converters, translators and APIs

for collation, cross-platform data flow, ...

-- OCR, voice recognition, speech synthesis, natural

language processing, Computational linguistics, machine

translation of Tamil texts to English and other Indic

languages and vice versa, ..

-- Online tools for Tamil IT such as online Spell checker

and e-dictionary using database and various scripting technologies

like Perl and Java.

-- Dedicated softwares based on Tamil Unicode for

word-processing, databases, e-commerce, etc

-- Tamil Domain Names (DNS) development/implementations

 

3. Open Source and Tamil IT

 

Open Source based products for Tamil IT with a focus

to eradicate digital divide in regions with large Tamil population.

 

4. Digital/E-Archives & Tamil Databases

 

-- Digital collections of Tamil literary works,

-- educational materials (e-books, CDs, cassettes/tapes,..)

-- Online Tamil dictionaries, lexicon, thesaurus etc.

 

5. E-Business and E-Governance

 

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-- Tamil portal sites, e-commerce, e-governance

efforts etc.

 

If you have any suggestions to improve the programming with

additional topics, please forward them to the mailbox

<ti2003_tpc@i...>. We greatly look forward to your

co-operation and active participation at the forthcoming TI2003

conference.

 

anbudan

K. Kalyanasundaram

Chair, Tech. Programme Committee for TI2003

http:/www.infitt.org/ti2003/

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