Call for Papers for Tamil Internet 2001 conference

[M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:27:41 +0100
From: Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram <kalyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Dear colleagues and friends of INFITT:

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR TAMIL INTERNET 2001 CONFERENCE

We are pleased to announce that the International Forum for
Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) will be organising the next
Tamil Internet 2001 (TI2001) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in
August 2001. More details will be announced later.  Meanwhile, we would
like to call for papers to be presented at the conference.
 
The Executive Committee of INFITT has named the following to
constitute the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) for the TI2001
conference:
 Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Switzerland (Co-Chair, TPC-TI2001)
 Dr Chandran Elamvazuthi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Co-Chair, TPC-TI2001)
 Dr. M. Anandakrishnan, India (Chair, INFITT)
 Mr. Muthu Nedumaran, Malaysia (Chair-TI2001)
 Mr. Arun Mahizhnan, Singapore (Chair TI2000)
 Mr. Mani Manivannan, USA (Chair-TI2002)
 Mr. P. Chellappan, Chennai
Some additional members may be added to the TPC by the Executive
Committee of INFITT.

We take this opportunity to invite 'technical' papers for
presentation at TI-2001 on all topics relating Tamil with Computers
and/or Internet, on or before 30 APRIL 2001. 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 last TI2000 Conference, all submissions must be in
electronic form. The outline/summary of your presentation should also
include your full name, designation, address and contact numbers.

Authors whose papers have been selected for presentation at the
conference will be informed by 31 May 2001. Electronic versions of the
accepted papers should reach the TPC on or before 30 June 2001 for them
to appear in the official conference book. We would appreciate it very
much if you take note of these deadlines and adhere to them.

The organisers of the conference assume that submission of a
paper for possible presentation at TI2001 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.

The following is a short list of topics (by no means exhaustive)
to be covered at the 2001 Tamil Internet Conference:
1. Technology
  -- Tamil Implementation in different platforms :
    Windows-2000, Unix/Linux, Unicode, MacOS, PalmOS, Java, ...
  -- Search engines, text converters, translators and APIs for
    cross-platform data flow
  --  OCR, voice recognition, speech synthesis, natural language
      processing,..
  -- Java, Perl-script based tools for online Spell checker,
     dictionary,.. (interactive usage of Tamil online/on Internet)
  -- Dedicated software for word-processing, databases, ....

2.      Education
  --  Multimedia-based Tamil educational tools (CDs,
         Audio-cassettes,....) for remote education
  --  Web-based online Tamil education sites and associated tools
  --  Computer-aided Teaching of Tamil, virtual classroom, ....
  --  Digital collections of Tamil literary works, educational
       materials (e-books, CDs, cassettes/ tapes,...)
  --  Online Tamil dictionaries, lexicon, thesaurus, ...
  --  Internet oriented Initiatives for Tamil: Tamil Virtual
         University, Project Madurai, ..

3.      Standards
  --  WG01: glossary of technical terms for Tamil
  --  WG02: Unicode Tamil Segment
  --  WG04: a unified TAB, TSCII 8-bit encoding
  --  WG05: a transliteration (romanised) standard scheme for Tamil

4.      Business
  --  Portal sites for Tamil
  --  Domain Name (DNS) Registration in Tamil
  --  E-commerce directed towards Tamil Diaspora (online stores
      for books, musical instruments/CDs, educational materials,..)
  --  Software for Tamil businesses (billing, finance management,
       warehousing, dispatch, order tracking,..)

5.      Organisation
  --  INFITT organisation and activities
  --  National/Regional Tamil Internet/IT Steering Committees
  --  Tamil Internet Conferences

We plan to adopt the programme outline used at the last TI2000
conference with some modifications. If you have any suggestions to
improve the programming with additional topics, please feel free to
forward them either to me or to the conference chair Mr. Muthu Nedumaran
<muthu@xxxxxxxxxx> or the co-chair of the TPC, Dr K. Kalyanasundaram
<kalyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.

We greatly look forward to your co-operation and active participation at
the forthcoming TI2001 conference.

Arun Mahizhnan
Executive Director, INFITT

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