[Indic-computing-users] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR TAMIL INTERNET 2003 CONFERENCE

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From : "K. Kalyanasundaram" <ka...@so...>
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Subject : [ti2003_tpc] Call-for-Papers for Tamil Internet 2003 Conference
Date : Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:11:02 +0100

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 

-- 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 <ti2...@in...>.  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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