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TAMIL INTERNET 2004 - CALL FOR PAPERS
16 August 2004 ? The seventh International Tamil Internet Conference
("Tamil Internet 2004"), to be held in Singapore on 11 and 12
December 2004, is now calling for papers to be submitted to the
conference.
Tamil Internet 2004 is organised by the International Forum for
Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) with the support of
Singapore's Tamil Internet Steering Committee and other
organisations. It will be held at the National University of
Singapore premises.
A Conference Programme Committee (CPC) has been formed with Dr. K.
Kalyanasundaram of Switzerland as the Chair, Mr. Arun Mahizhnan of
Singapore as Vice-Chair and Mr. N. Maalan (India), Mr. A. Elangovan
(India), Mr. D. Sivaraj (India), Dr. Vasu Renganathan (USA) as
members), to deal with paper submission and scheduling of the
conference content. Prof. V. Sankaranarayanan, Director of Tamil
Virtual University, Chennai, has agreed to serve as Advisor to the
CPC for Tamil Internet 2004.
In contrast to multi-hub, large audience format of earlier Tamil
Internet Conferences (TICs), Tamil Internet 2004 will be an
intensive, focused technical conference with only one session
scheduled at a time. More time will be devoted to in-depth
collective discussions (workshop style) than in formal
presentations.
"Tamil IT for Tomorrow " has been chosen as the theme for the Tamil
Internet 2004 conference. We invite technical papers on all topics
relating Tamil Information Technology. The deadline for paper
abstracts is 16 September and for the full paper, November 16. There
will be a peer review of the submitted papers before acceptance. The
abstract should be detailed enough for CPC to make a decision on
acceptance. After the review, successful candidates will be informed
before end September.
To assist the CPC select papers for formal presentations, please
send us one or two pages (A4 size) of the abstract of your
presentation by the above date. Papers may be presented in English,
Tamil or bilingual (Tamil-English) format. As with the earlier TICs,
all submissions must be in electronic form. For papers with content
in Tamil or are bilingual, please use either TAB or TSCII (version
1.7) encoding. Characters that are not part of the encoding
prescribed must be included as images (jpg/gif). The outline/summary
of your presentation should also include your full name,
designation, address, email and contact numbers.
We assume that submission of a paper for possible presentation at
Tamil Internet 2004 implies attendance at the conference and
presentation in person by at least one author of the paper. The
Singapore organizers have offered to provide free boarding and
lodging, free conference registration to one author of each paper
accepted for oral presentation.
As in the past, papers presented in the conference will be archived,
printed and distributed as INFITT sees fit and INFITT will retain
the rights for these purposes.
We would appreciate very much if you take note of the deadlines and
adhere to them:
Abstracts by 16 September
Full paper by 16 November
The following is a list of topics (not exhaustive) to be covered at
the Tamil Internet 2004 Conference:
1. Tamil Character Encoding Standards
? Focus on 16bit schemes, status of Unicode, platform and
application level support
? Issues on Collation, supporting a sort-order
? 8bit to 16bit Migration issues: conversion and coexistence of
application and data
? Tamil99 keyboard for Unicode input
2. Multilingual Domain Names
? Discussion on multi-lingual domain names and email addresses with
a focus on Tamil
? Technical sessions on architecture, dependencies, encoding and
implementation issues
? General discussion on usage, take-up rate and INFITT's role in
promoting usage
3. Tamil in Indic language cluster and multi-lingual environments
? Classification of scripts (Alphabetic, Ideographic and Syllabic) &
multi-script/multilingual environments
? Co-existence with "Indic" family of scripts/languages ? Operating
Systems and
Application issues
? Co-existence with other syllabic and ideographic scripts, Chinese
and Arabic in
particular
4. Tamil Optical Character Recognition, Machine Translation, Spell
Checking and Speech Recognition
? Current initiatives and progress over the last 5 years
? "Red-flag" (problem) areas and bottle necks
? Technological and linguistic dependencies
? Parallel initiatives: compare and contrast development in other
languages besides English
? Proposed solutions
5. Mobile and hand-held technologies
? Development tools and libraries for mobile and wireless devices:
phones, PDAs etc.
? Issues with implementing Tamil at platform and application levels
? Tamil input standards for mobile phone keypads
? Hand-writing recognition (graffiti) ? considerations for Tamil
script
? Character encoding for internal representation and data exchange
6. Open source software and Tamil localisation
? Tamil open-source initiatives: Tamil-Linux, Tamil-OO.o, Tamil-
Mozilla etc.
? Translation and localisation issues: glossary, locale settings
(Tamil-India, Tamil-Sri Lanka, Tamil-Singapore, Tamil-Malaysia etc)
? Tools and technologies for localisation
? Future projects
7. Education Technology
? Compare and contrast use of technology in other language areas:
English, Hindi, Sinhala, Chinese, Arabic, Malay, etc
? Identify requirements specific to Tamil
? Demonstrate existing applications and propose areas for
improvements
8. Database driven applications
? General purpose business applications
? Tamil locale handling in 16bit enabled databases
? Implementing sort-order
? Application specific issues: Web (blogs, portals, ezines,
messaging, ecommerce), Fat-Client (desktop centric)
9. E-Government
? Challenges and prospects for introducing E-Government
? Issues of privacy and security
? Issues of multilingualism
? Multilingual Archival Systems, Multilingual PDF forms creation and
filling
Please send in the abstract of your presentation to the mailbox
<ti2004-cpc@xxxxxxxxxx> as soon as possible. We greatly look forward
to your co-operation and active participation at the forthcoming
Tamil Internet 2004 Conference.
Warm regards,
K. Kalyanasundaram
Chair, Conference Programme Committee
Tamil Internet 2004
http:/www.infitt.org/ti2004/
Email: ti2004-cpc@xxxxxxxxxx
