Time
| Program | |
15.00 - 16.00
| Inagural Ceremony | |
16.00 - 16.30
| Coffee Break
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16.30 - 18.00
| 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 | |
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 | |
11.00 - 12.30
| Session B2: Tamil localization, Tamil keyboard, open-source software & mobile applications i) Dr. 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: Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning of Tamil i) Mr. R. Natarajan: Preparing Pedagogy for e-learning courses: a pilot plan for Tamilnadu ii) Dr. G. Singaravelu: Effectiveness of Multimedia Package in Learning Vocabulary in Tamil iii) Dr. S.K. Panneerselvam : இணையம் வழி மொழிக் கற்றல் - கற்பித்தலில் புதிய அணுகுமுறைகள் | |
12.30 - 13.30
| Lunch Break
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Time
| Program | |
13.30 - 15.00
| 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) Mr. M. Mauran: Tamil Wikipedia | |
13.30 - 15.00
| 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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15.30 - 17.00
| 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 iii) Mr. I. Thiruvalluvan: கணினியில் நேர் பெயர்ப்புச் சொற்கள் | |
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
| Session B5: Online Databases i) Thenmozhi Durairaj (SSN College, Chennai, India) Tamil-English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval System for Agriculture ii) Andavar, V.M.S (Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai, India) Sangam Literature Teaching and Learning through Multimedia iii) Chevillard, Jean-Luc (CNRS Paris, France) Critical editions of Tamil works: exploratory survey and future perspectives | |
10.30 - 11.00
| Coffee Break
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Time
| Program | |
11.00 - 12.30
| 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 & Harold F. Schiffman: The English Dictionary of Tamil Verbs: What can we learn about structure of Tamil from Electronic Databases? | |
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
| 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
| Session B7: Online Databases | |
15.00 - 15.30
| Coffee Break
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15.30 - 17.00
| Session A8: 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 | |
15.30 - 17.00
| Session B8: Open source keyboard interface and Unicode font in Mac OS i) A. G. Ramakrishnan: பன்மொழி வாயில் : An Open Source Multilingual Indic Keyboard Interface ii) Muthu Nedumaran: Building Tamil Unicode Fonts for Mac OS X iii) Kumaresan T (Viruba.com, Chennai, India) தமிழில் தரவுதளங்கள் உருவாக்கலும் எதிர்கொள்ளும் இடர்களும் | |
17.00 - 18.00
| Closing Session
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