Nineteenth Tamil Internet Conference
December 11, 12 and 13th – 2020
Virtual Meet
Sponsored by INFITT
and Co-Sponsored by NLPC, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
and Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu
https://www.tamilinternetconference.org/tic2020
| December 11th, Friday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST |
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| Inauguration: MC: Ms. Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius Welcome Speech: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT Introduction, CPC: Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Chair, CPC, INFITT Professor Gihan Dias, Co-Chair, University of Moratuwa Inaugural Speech: Professor Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT Keynote: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT |
| Greetings messages: Professor P. Kolandaivel, Vice-Chancellor, Periyar University, Salem Professor C. Subramaniam, Former Vice-Chancellor, The Tamil University, Thanjavur. Release of Conference Proceedings – Conference Program Committee and members of the Inaugural meeting. Vote of Thanks: Professor K. Kalyanasundaram, Former Chair, INFITT |
| Keynote Session I (6PM to 6:30PM) |
| Chair: Professor E. Annamalai, University of Chicago. Speaker: Vinod Rajan, Germany Paper: Preserving Tamil Scripts: The Way towards their Digitization, Archival and Outreach |
| Session II (6:30 to 7:00PM) |
| Chair: Professor Appasamy Murugaiyan Speaker: Louis Isack Kumar, Bartley Secondary School, Singapore Paper: Enhancing Tamil Teaching & Learning using Student Learning Space (SLS) and Visible Thinking Routines |
| Session III (7:00 to 7:30PM) |
| Chair: Prof. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Speaker: Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius Paper: Online teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic period: The Mauritian experience |
| Session IV (7:30 to 8:30PM) |
| Chair: Dr. Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC Research Center,Anna University Speaker: Vijay Sundar Ram Paper: Verb Phrase Translation in English to Tamil Speaker: Pattabhi, RK Paper: Named Entity Recognition in Tamil from Code Mix. Speaker: Parameswari Krishnamurthy ,Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Hyderabad Paper: Balance scale to disambiguate Postpositions in Telugu and Tamil:An implementation in transfer based Machine Translation |
| December 12nd, Saturday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST |
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| Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM) |
| Chair: Professor Gihan Dias, NLP Center, Moratuwa University, Srilanka Speakers: T. Uthaysankar, K. Sarveswaran, R. Janarthanasarma, Aloka F., and Thanuja P.,Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka Topic: Introduction to Tamil NLP research at the NLP Center, Moratuwa University |
| Session II (5:30 to 6:00 PM) |
| Chair: Dr. L. Ramamoorthy, CIIL, Mysore Speaker: M. Monisha, V. S. Felix Enigo, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. Paper: Complexities in Developing Tamil-Brahmi Script OCR: An analysis. |
| Session III (6:00 to 6:30PM) |
| Chair: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT. Speaker: அகிலன், செம்மொழி நிறுவனம், சென்னை Paper: தரவக வழித் தமிழ்ச் செவ்வியல் நூல்கள் ஆய்வு: சிக்கல்களும் தீர்வுகளும் |
| Session IV (6:30 to 7:00PM) |
| Chair: Dr. M. Ganesan, Annamalai University Speaker: Dr. K. Rajan, Annamalai University Paper: Application of Letter Successor Varieties in Tamil Morphological Analysis. |
| Session V (7:00 to 7:30PM) |
| Chair: Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram, Switzerland Speaker: Muthiah Annamalai, Ezhilang Paper: Algorithm to Correct Missing Pulli –Signs in Printed Tamil Text: |
| Session VI (7:30 to 8:00PM) |
| Chair: Maniam, S., Singapore. Speaker: ஜூலியன் மலார்ட், மக்கில் பல்கலைக்கழகம் Paper: லஸ்ஸி - உங்கள் தாய்மொழியில் நிரலாக்கம். ஜூலியன் மலார்ட், ஹா. யோல், ஆ.யான், மெ-கீ. ஊகோ உயிர் வள பொறியியல் துறை - மக்கில் பல்கலைக்கழகம், கனடா, உலக உணவு பாதுகாப்பு நிலையம், மக்கில் பல்கலைக்கழகம், கனடா |
| Session VII (8:00 to 8:30PM) |
| Chair: Dr. R.T. Uthayasanker, Sri Lanka Speaker: Anosha Ignatius, University of Moratuwa Paper: Speech Embedding with Segregation of Para-linguistic Information for Tamil Language: a survey |
| December 13th, Sunday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST |
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| Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM) |
| Chair: Professor Deivasundaram, Chennai Speaker: Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Paper: Computational Analysis of Nominal Compounds in Tamil. |
| Session II (5:30 to 5:55PM) |
| Chair: K. Sarveswaran, Sri Lanka Speaker: T. Shrinivasan Topic: Tamilnayavaani – Integrating TVA Open-Source Spellchecker with Python. T. Shrinivasan, Nityha Duraisamy, Ashok Ramachandran, Manickkavasakam,Arunmozhi, and A. Muthiah. |
| Session III (5:55 to 6:20 PM) |
| Chair: Elantamil, Malaysia Speaker: ராமன் விமலன், ஆசிய மொழிகள் மற்றும் பண்பாடுகள் துறை, தேசியக் கல்விக் கழகம் நனயாங் தொழில்நுட்பப் பல்கலைக்கழகம், சிங்கப்பூர். Paper: கலவை முறைக் கற்றலில் தொழில்நுட்ப வளங்களின் பன்முகப் பயன்பாடு |
| Session IV (6:20 to 6:45PM) |
| Chair: Rama Suganthan, Tamilnadu, India Speaker: பரதன் தியாகலிங்கம் Paper: மாத்திரை பார்வையில் குறள், பரதன் தியாகலிங்கம், முத்து அண்ணாமலை. |
| Session V (6:45 to 7:10PM) |
| Chair: Shrinivasan, T., Chennai Speaker: Malaikkannan Sankarasubbu, Saama Technologies AI Research Lab Paper: SymSpell and LSTM based Spell Checkers for Tamil |
| Session VI (7:10 to 7:35PM) |
| Chair: Sakthivel Ramasamy, Chennai Speaker: Sathiya Mahadevan Paper: Generation and Parsing of Number to Words in Tamil: Mutiah Annamalai and Sathiya Mahadevan |
| Session VII (7:35 to 8:00PM) |
| Chair: Muthu Annamalai, California Paper: A Survey on Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil Language pair Speaker: B.Janarthanasarma, T.Uthayasanker, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Moratuwa |
| Valedictory Function (8:00 to 8:30PM) |
INFITT Activities: Dr. Arul Veerappan (Chair, INFITT) INFITT going forward: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT Valedictory speech: Prof. Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT Concluding thoughts on Tamil NLP research: Professor Gihan Dias, Sri Lanka Vote of Thanks: M. A. Ganesan, Vice Chair, INFITT |