Tamil Internet 2011 Conference Announcement & Registration
List of Accepted papers to be presented during the conference
Conference FAQ
Conference venue: David Rittenhouse Lab: 209 South 33rd Street . Philadelphia . PA . 19104
Conference Fee:
All those who would like to take part in the conference, pay this registration fee, so all the incidental expenses related to snacks, lunch, dinner, proceedings, flyers etc., can be met by the conference organizers. This is irrespective of whether you are a paper presenter or participant. Everyone's support in this respect is solicited.
Pay $50 for Incidental fee.
Conference registration is closed and we are not sending any more letters to anyone for visa purposes.
Paper selection has been completed.
Conference Program Committee finished selecting the abstracts that can be presented in one of the technical sessions of the conference. All authors whose abstracts were selected have been notified by email. If anyone didn't yet receive any communication from the CPC chair Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram about their abstract, please be advised that the selection committee could not select their abstract for one reason or another. All the paper presenters are requested to submit their full paper before 30th of April, so the conference program can include their presentation in one of the sessions. If we do not receive the full paper by 30th of April, we are afraid that those authors won't be able to present their paper in the conference. So, it is absolutely necessary that all the authors whose abstracts have been selected submit their full paper by the deadline.
All those who require a Visa to enter the US have been provided with a Visa letter already. If anyone is interested in participating in the conference, please pay the conference fee of $50 using the link provided in the registration page: http://www.thetamillanguage.com/registration.
Conference announcement:
International Forum for Information Technology (INFITT) is pleased to announce that the next Tamil Internet Conference 2011 (10th in the series) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA during June 17-19, 2011.
Prof. Harold F. Schiffman, Dr. Vasu Renganathan and Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram have kindly agreed to assist in the organization of the conference as Chairs of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and Conference Program Committee (CPC). INFITT Chair Va.Mu.Se. Kaviarasan will serve as Chair of International Organizing Committee (IOC).
The following is a collection of topics (non-exclusive) to be addressed at various technical sessions of the Conference.
- Tools for Classical Tamil literary research: Mining the corpus of Tamil literature, building search engines for the retrieval of Tamil literature texts from Sangam to Modern Tamil, research on identification of the chronology of Tamil authors and texts based on any computational analysis of Tamil literature texts.
- Tools for Tamil Computing:Word-processing (Text editor, Spell check, Grammar check, Dictionaries), plugins for browsers, online file convertors, etc.
- Open source software and Tamil Localization of software and OS.
- Standards for various applications and portable devices dealing with Tamil content.
- Tamil enabling in mobile and other hand-held platforms/technologies PDA, iPhone, androids, etc.
- NLP Applications in Tamil: Machine Translation, OCR, Voice recognition, speech synthesis, Search engines, Data mining of Tamil digital resources, etc.
- Tamil Internet: Blogging, Wikipedia, Podcasting, Data-mining of Tamil content in different font encodings, educational portals, Tamil online portals, aggregators, commercial solutions, etc.
- Tamil Content Databases for digital libraries and e-commerce.
Those who would like to make an oral presentation should submit a brief abstract at the conference gateway on or before 15th March 2011. 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 Unicode encoding. Papers presented in any other encodings are liable for automatic rejection.
Conference Program Committee will review all submissions and select papers for presentation at various technical sessions. As in the past, extended abstracts (max 4 pages) of all accepted papers for the conference will be published in the Conference Book and also in electronic form in a CD/DVD.
Authors whose papers have been selected for presentation at the conference will be informed by 15th April 2011. Organizers of the conference assume that submission of a paper for possible presentation at TI2011 implies attendance at the conference and presentation in person by at least one author of the paper. Proxy presentation by third parties may be permitted at extreme circumstances, but the presenter needs to be familiar with the work and should be able to answer questions where possible.
One or two page abstracts of papers for presentation are to be sent to the INFITT conference secretariat’s email ti2011@infitt.org with a copy to ti2011-cpc@infitt.org. Conference Program Committee will send a prompt confirmation of the receipt of the abstract.
For further details you can also contact any of the following country representatives
Malaysia: ElanTamil, Vice-Chair, INFITT: vice-chair@infitt.org , Elantamil@infitt.org
India: Anto Peter, Member Executive Committee, INFITT: antopeter@infitt.org
SriLanka: Mauran, Member Executive Committee, INFITT: mauran@infitt.org
Europe: SivaPillai, Member Executive Committee, INFITT: sivapillai@infitt.org
Australia: Mugunth, Member Executive Committee, INFITT : Mugunth@infitt.org
Singapore : Maniam, Executive Director, INFITT: ed@infitt,org, maniam@infitt.org
America : Va.Mu.Se. Kaviarasan, Chair, INFITT: chair@infitt.org, kavi@infitt.org
Other Regions: ed@infitt.org, chair@infitt.org
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the conference secretariat at its email id ti2011@infitt.org.
S. Maniam
Executive Director, INFITT
http://www.infitt.org
URL for the TI 2011 conference website:
http://www.infitt.org/ti2011/
http://www.tamilinternetconference.org/
Annexure – A
TI 2011 Conference Program Committee:
- Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram Switzerland – Chair
- Prof. N. Deivasundaram, India
- Prof. A.G. Ramakrishnan, India
- Mr. Mani Manivannan , India
- Dr. Badri Seshadri, India
- Dr. Jean-Luc Chevillard, France
- Prof. C.R. Selvakumar, California
- Dr. Seetha Lakshmi, Singapore
- Mr. Siva Pillai, United Kingdom
Annexure –B
TI 2011 – Local Organizing committee
- Dr. Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania – Chair
- Prof. Harold F. Schiffman ,University of Pennsylvania – CoChair
- Sankaran Radhakrishnan,University of Texas, Austin
- Dr. Arasu Chellaiah, Maryland
- Ramachandran Sivakumar, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
- Dr.Muthumani Karuppiah,University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. SornamSankar,Maryland
- Somalay Somasundaram, Avondale, Pennsylvania
- Kumar Kumarappan, California
- Jody Chavez, University of Pennsylvania