Nineteenth Tamil Internet Conference\nDecember 11, 12 and 13th – 2020\nVirtual Meet\nSponsored by INFITT\nand Co-Sponsored by NLPC, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka\nand Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n
Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tamilinternetconference.org\/tic2020<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">December 11th, Friday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Inauguration:<br \/>\nMC: Ms. Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius<br \/>\nWelcome Speech: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT <br \/>\nIntroduction, CPC: Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Chair, CPC, INFITT <br \/>\nProfessor Gihan Dias, Co-Chair, University of Moratuwa<br \/>\nInaugural Speech: Professor Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT <br \/>\nKeynote: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Greetings messages:<br \/>\nProfessor P. Kolandaivel, Vice-Chancellor, Periyar University, Salem<br \/>\nProfessor C. Subramaniam, Former Vice-Chancellor, The Tamil University, Thanjavur. <br \/>\nRelease of Conference Proceedings \u2013 Conference Program Committee and members of the Inaugural meeting.<br \/>\nVote of Thanks: Professor K. Kalyanasundaram, Former Chair, INFITT <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (6PM to 6:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor E. Annamalai, University of Chicago.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Vinod Rajan, Germany<br \/>\nPaper: Preserving Tamil Scripts: The Way towards their Digitization, Archival and Outreach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (6:30 to 7:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Appasamy Murugaiyan<br \/>\nSpeaker: Louis Isack Kumar, Bartley Secondary School, Singapore<br \/>\nPaper: Enhancing Tamil Teaching & Learning using Student Learning Space (SLS) and Visible Thinking Routines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (7:00 to 7:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Prof. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius<br \/>\nPaper: Online teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic period: The Mauritian experience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (7:30 to 8:30PM) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC Research Center,Anna University<br \/>\nSpeaker: Vijay Sundar Ram<br \/>\nPaper: Verb Phrase Translation in English to Tamil<br \/>\nSpeaker: Pattabhi, RK<br \/>\nPaper: Named Entity Recognition in Tamil from Code Mix.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Parameswari Krishnamurthy ,Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Hyderabad<br \/>\nPaper: Balance scale to disambiguate Postpositions in Telugu and Tamil:An implementation in transfer based Machine Translation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4 from cache -->\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\"><b>December 12nd, Saturday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST <\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Gihan Dias, NLP Center, Moratuwa University, Srilanka<br \/>\nSpeakers: T. Uthaysankar, K. Sarveswaran, R. Janarthanasarma, Aloka F., and Thanuja P.,Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nTopic: Introduction to Tamil NLP research at the NLP Center, Moratuwa University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (5:30 to 6:00 PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. L. Ramamoorthy, CIIL, Mysore<br \/>\nSpeaker: M. Monisha, V. S. Felix Enigo, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai.<br \/>\nPaper: Complexities in Developing Tamil-Brahmi Script OCR: An analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (6:00 to 6:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT.<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0b85\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8<br \/>\nPaper: \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bb5\u0b95 \u0bb5\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b86\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1: \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (6:30 to 7:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. M. Ganesan, Annamalai University<br \/>\nSpeaker: Dr. K. Rajan, Annamalai University<br \/>\nPaper: Application of Letter Successor Varieties in Tamil Morphological Analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session V (7:00 to 7:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram, Switzerland <br \/>\nSpeaker: Muthiah Annamalai, Ezhilang<br \/>\nPaper: Algorithm to Correct Missing Pulli \u2013Signs in Printed Tamil Text:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VI (7:30 to 8:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Maniam, S., Singapore.<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0b9c\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd<br \/>\nPaper: \u0bb2\u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb8\u0bbf - \u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd. \u0b9c\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bcd, \u0bb9\u0bbe. \u0baf\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd, \u0b86.\u0baf\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0bc6-\u0b95\u0bc0. \u0b8a\u0b95\u0bcb \u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb3 \u0baa\u0bca\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8 - \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b95\u0ba9\u0b9f\u0bbe, \u0b89\u0bb2\u0b95 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b95\u0ba9\u0b9f\u0bbe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VII (8:00 to 8:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. R.T. Uthayasanker, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSpeaker: Anosha Ignatius, University of Moratuwa<br \/>\nPaper: Speech Embedding with Segregation of Para-linguistic Information for Tamil Language: a survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-1 from cache -->\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">December 13th, Sunday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Deivasundaram, Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.<br \/>\nPaper: Computational Analysis of Nominal Compounds in Tamil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (5:30 to 5:55PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: K. Sarveswaran, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSpeaker: T. Shrinivasan<br \/>\nTopic: Tamilnayavaani \u2013 Integrating TVA Open-Source Spellchecker with Python.<br \/>\nT. Shrinivasan, Nityha Duraisamy, Ashok Ramachandran, Manickkavasakam,Arunmozhi, and A. Muthiah.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (5:55 to 6:20 PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Elantamil, Malaysia<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bb2\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0b86\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf \u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8, \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b99\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0baa\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc2\u0bb0\u0bcd.<br \/>\nPaper: \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bb5\u0bc8 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0baa \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (6:20 to 6:45PM)<br \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Rama Suganthan, Tamilnadu, India<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd<br \/>\nPaper: \u0bae\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc8 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd, \u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bc8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session V (6:45 to 7:10PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Shrinivasan, T., Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Malaikkannan Sankarasubbu, Saama Technologies AI Research Lab<br \/>\nPaper: SymSpell and LSTM based Spell Checkers for Tamil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VI (7:10 to 7:35PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Sakthivel Ramasamy, Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Sathiya Mahadevan <br \/>\nPaper: Generation and Parsing of Number to Words in Tamil: Mutiah Annamalai and Sathiya Mahadevan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VII (7:35 to 8:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Muthu Annamalai, California<br \/>\nPaper: A Survey on Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil Language pair<br \/>\nSpeaker: B.Janarthanasarma, T.Uthayasanker, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Moratuwa <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Valedictory Function (8:00 to 8:30PM)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><center>Welcome speech: Mr. Maniam, Singapore (Executive Director, INFITT)<br \/>\nINFITT Activities: Dr. Arul Veerappan (Chair, INFITT)<br \/>\nINFITT going forward: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT<br \/>\nValedictory speech: Prof. Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT<br \/>\nConcluding thoughts on Tamil NLP research: <br \/>\nProfessor Gihan Dias, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nVote of Thanks: M. A. 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<\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tamilinternetconference.org\/tic2020<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">December 11th, Friday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Inauguration:<br \/>\nMC: Ms. Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius<br \/>\nWelcome Speech: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT <br \/>\nIntroduction, CPC: Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Chair, CPC, INFITT <br \/>\nProfessor Gihan Dias, Co-Chair, University of Moratuwa<br \/>\nInaugural Speech: Professor Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT <br \/>\nKeynote: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Greetings messages:<br \/>\nProfessor P. Kolandaivel, Vice-Chancellor, Periyar University, Salem<br \/>\nProfessor C. Subramaniam, Former Vice-Chancellor, The Tamil University, Thanjavur. <br \/>\nRelease of Conference Proceedings \u2013 Conference Program Committee and members of the Inaugural meeting.<br \/>\nVote of Thanks: Professor K. Kalyanasundaram, Former Chair, INFITT <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (6PM to 6:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor E. Annamalai, University of Chicago.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Vinod Rajan, Germany<br \/>\nPaper: Preserving Tamil Scripts: The Way towards their Digitization, Archival and Outreach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (6:30 to 7:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Appasamy Murugaiyan<br \/>\nSpeaker: Louis Isack Kumar, Bartley Secondary School, Singapore<br \/>\nPaper: Enhancing Tamil Teaching & Learning using Student Learning Space (SLS) and Visible Thinking Routines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (7:00 to 7:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Prof. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Sandana Vellien, Educator, Seewa Bappoo State Secondary School, Mauritius<br \/>\nPaper: Online teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic period: The Mauritian experience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (7:30 to 8:30PM) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. Sobha Lalitha Devi, AU-KBC Research Center,Anna University<br \/>\nSpeaker: Vijay Sundar Ram<br \/>\nPaper: Verb Phrase Translation in English to Tamil<br \/>\nSpeaker: Pattabhi, RK<br \/>\nPaper: Named Entity Recognition in Tamil from Code Mix.<br \/>\nSpeaker: Parameswari Krishnamurthy ,Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Hyderabad<br \/>\nPaper: Balance scale to disambiguate Postpositions in Telugu and Tamil:An implementation in transfer based Machine Translation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4 from cache -->\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\"><b>December 12nd, Saturday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST <\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Gihan Dias, NLP Center, Moratuwa University, Srilanka<br \/>\nSpeakers: T. Uthaysankar, K. Sarveswaran, R. Janarthanasarma, Aloka F., and Thanuja P.,Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nTopic: Introduction to Tamil NLP research at the NLP Center, Moratuwa University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (5:30 to 6:00 PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. L. Ramamoorthy, CIIL, Mysore<br \/>\nSpeaker: M. Monisha, V. S. Felix Enigo, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai.<br \/>\nPaper: Complexities in Developing Tamil-Brahmi Script OCR: An analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (6:00 to 6:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. Arul Veerappan, Chair, INFITT.<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0b85\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc8<br \/>\nPaper: \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bb5\u0b95 \u0bb5\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b86\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1: \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (6:30 to 7:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. M. Ganesan, Annamalai University<br \/>\nSpeaker: Dr. K. Rajan, Annamalai University<br \/>\nPaper: Application of Letter Successor Varieties in Tamil Morphological Analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session V (7:00 to 7:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram, Switzerland <br \/>\nSpeaker: Muthiah Annamalai, Ezhilang<br \/>\nPaper: Algorithm to Correct Missing Pulli \u2013Signs in Printed Tamil Text:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VI (7:30 to 8:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Maniam, S., Singapore.<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0b9c\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd<br \/>\nPaper: \u0bb2\u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb8\u0bbf - \u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd. \u0b9c\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bcd, \u0bb9\u0bbe. \u0baf\u0bcb\u0bb2\u0bcd, \u0b86.\u0baf\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0bc6-\u0b95\u0bc0. \u0b8a\u0b95\u0bcb \u0b89\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb3 \u0baa\u0bca\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8 - \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b95\u0ba9\u0b9f\u0bbe, \u0b89\u0bb2\u0b95 \u0b89\u0ba3\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b95\u0ba9\u0b9f\u0bbe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VII (8:00 to 8:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Dr. R.T. Uthayasanker, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSpeaker: Anosha Ignatius, University of Moratuwa<br \/>\nPaper: Speech Embedding with Segregation of Para-linguistic Information for Tamil Language: a survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-1 from cache -->\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">December 13th, Sunday between 5:00PM and 8:30PM IST<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Keynote Session I (5PM to 5:30PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Professor Deivasundaram, Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.<br \/>\nPaper: Computational Analysis of Nominal Compounds in Tamil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session II (5:30 to 5:55PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: K. Sarveswaran, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSpeaker: T. Shrinivasan<br \/>\nTopic: Tamilnayavaani \u2013 Integrating TVA Open-Source Spellchecker with Python.<br \/>\nT. Shrinivasan, Nityha Duraisamy, Ashok Ramachandran, Manickkavasakam,Arunmozhi, and A. Muthiah.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session III (5:55 to 6:20 PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Elantamil, Malaysia<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0bb0\u0bbe\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bb2\u0ba9\u0bcd, \u0b86\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf \u0bae\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bae\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8, \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b99\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0baa\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb4\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc2\u0bb0\u0bcd.<br \/>\nPaper: \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bb5\u0bc8 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0bb4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0ba8\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0baa \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bc1 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session IV (6:20 to 6:45PM)<br \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Rama Suganthan, Tamilnadu, India<br \/>\nSpeaker: \u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd<br \/>\nPaper: \u0bae\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc8 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bb3\u0bcd, \u0baa\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd, \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0ba3\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bc8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session V (6:45 to 7:10PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Shrinivasan, T., Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Malaikkannan Sankarasubbu, Saama Technologies AI Research Lab<br \/>\nPaper: SymSpell and LSTM based Spell Checkers for Tamil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VI (7:10 to 7:35PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Sakthivel Ramasamy, Chennai<br \/>\nSpeaker: Sathiya Mahadevan <br \/>\nPaper: Generation and Parsing of Number to Words in Tamil: Mutiah Annamalai and Sathiya Mahadevan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Session VII (7:35 to 8:00PM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Chair: Muthu Annamalai, California<br \/>\nPaper: A Survey on Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil Language pair<br \/>\nSpeaker: B.Janarthanasarma, T.Uthayasanker, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Moratuwa <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><b>Valedictory Function (8:00 to 8:30PM)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><center>Welcome speech: Mr. Maniam, Singapore (Executive Director, INFITT)<br \/>\nINFITT Activities: Dr. Arul Veerappan (Chair, INFITT)<br \/>\nINFITT going forward: Professor M. A. Anandakrishnan, Founder, INFITT<br \/>\nValedictory speech: Prof. Ponnavaikko, Founder, INFITT<br \/>\nConcluding thoughts on Tamil NLP research: <br \/>\nProfessor Gihan Dias, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nVote of Thanks: M. A. 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