2 – 5 December 2021, Virtual Meet via Zoom
Conference Program Schedule
Day 1: Thursday 2nd, December 2021. All times shown refer to IST (Indian Standard Time)
| Time | Event | Participants |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Inaugural Session | Inaugural Address: Dr. V.P. Jeyaseelan, IAS (Diretor, Tamil Virtual Academy) Felicitations: Prof. P. Kaliraj (Vice Chancellor, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore) Prof. M. Ponnavaiko (Provost, Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Advisor- INFITT) President: Prof. M. Ganesan (Prof., Dean (retd) Annamalai University & Chair, INFITT) Co-host Institutional Representatives: Dr. P. Umarani (Dy. Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru) Dr. K. Parameswari (Asst. Prof. University of Hyderabad) Dr. R. Ponnusamy (Prof. Chennai Institute of Technology). |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Session 1 – Invited Talk 1 | Prof. G. Uma Maheswara Rao (Prof. & Director, CALTS, University of Hyderabad) : Indian Language Technology: A close look for Tamil in the context of NEP 2020 |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Session 2 – Contributed papers 1 – Chair: Dr. S. Arulmozi, University of Hyderabad |
1. Prem Kumar L R (paper #1) Textbook Corpus – a frequency based analysis 2. Visaka L, et al (paper #2) Tamil News Paper Text Summarization using Generative Adversarial Network 3. Vaishnavi R., et al (paper #3) Multi Source Tamil Text Summarization using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) 4. Pavithra M, et al (paper #10) Tamil News Text Classification using Gated Recurrent Unit |
| 19.00 – 20.00 | Session 3 – Contributed Papers 2 – Chair: Dr. Umarani Pappusamy, CIIL, Mysuru |
1. Agalya K and Kandasamy P (paper #4) Stance Detection for Code-Mixed Social Media Posts in Tamil using Transfer Learning inMachine Learning and Natural Language Processing 2. Sanjjushri Varshini R et al (paper #17) Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Tamil Text 3. Ferdin Joe John Joseph (paper #19) Translingual Architecture for Prediction of 2021 Tamil Nadu State Assembly Elections 4. Gandhiraja V (paper #23) Evaluating asymmetric n-grams as Tamil spell-checking mechanism |
Day 2: Friday 3rd, December 2021
| Time | Event | Participants |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Session 4 – Contributed papers 3 Chair: Dr. A. Murugaiyan, Paris University, Paris |
1. Karthik P, et al. (paper #11) A Conversational AI: LSTM Based Tamil Chatbot system for Academic Information System 2. Lakshmi A, et al. (paper #13) Convolutional Neural Networks for Tamil Text Classification 3. Bharathiraja et al (paper #18) Recognition of ancient Tamil inscriptions using Convolution Neural Network 4. Parameswari K & Sarveswaran K ((/paper #21) Multi-Word Token Expansion for Tamil: A Parsing Perspective |
| 1700 – 18.00 | Session 5 – Contributed papers 4 Chair: Dr. Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
1. Rajendran S (paper #16) Capturing Semantic extension of meaning in Tamil Verbs by computational means 2. Sruthi S et al. (paper #15) Tamil News Text Classification using Gated Recurrent Unit 3. Gandhiraja V (paper #24) Usage of Regular Expressions in Tamil NLP 4. Chitra S and ChandrasekaranS (paper #29) Semantic TreeBank Based Quantum Information Driven Linguistic Corpus of Bharathiar Poems |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Session 6 – Invited Talk 2 | Dr.C.N. Subalalitha (SRM Inst. of Sci. & Tech, Chennai) : “Research Advancements in Tamil NLP Using Transfer Learning Approaches” |
| 19.00 – 20.00 | Session 7- Contributed papers 4 Chair: Dr. Dhanalakshmi Giri, Government Women’s arts college, Krishnagiri |
1. Vijay Sundar Ram & Sobha L (paper #31) Noun Phrase Coreference using Tree CRFs 2. Palanirajan G (paper #28) குறியீட்டுத் தரவக உருவாக்கத்தில் வினையடை குறித்த இடர்பாடுகள் 3. Shanthi M & Balasundaram (paper #27) Affix based Distractor Generation in Factoid Tamil Cloze style Questions using Pre-Trained Context-Aware Models 4. Akilan R (paper #26) தமிழ் மொழிக்கான சொற் சூழல் கருவி |
Day 3: Saturday 4th, December 2021
| Time | Event | Participants |
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Session 8: Invited Lecture 3 | Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan (Microsoft India, Hyderabad) : Indian Language Computing: A Multilingual Perspective |
| 16.30 – 18.30 | Tutorial Session 1 Neural Machine Translation |
Dr. Pattabhi R. Rao (Anna University – KBC Research Center)& Dr. Vijay Sundar Ram (Anna University – KBC Research Center) |
| 18.30 – 19.30 | Tutorial Session 2 Tamil NLP -BERT Model |
Ms. Vinitra Swamy, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology (EPFL) |
| 19.30 – 20.30 | Tutorial Session 3: AI and Machine Learning for Tamil |
Dr. Muthu Annamalai, SambaNova Tech, California, USA |
Day 4: Sunday 5th, December 2021
| Time | Event | Participants |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Session 9 – Contributed Papers 6: Chair: Dr. Sobha Lalitha Devi |
1. Rajkumar N and Rajan K (paper #25) Stemming using Morphological Segmentation for comparison of CNN and LSTM models in Tamil Text classification 2. Murugan S et al. (paper #5) தமிழோடை: கற்கும்-கருவிகளுக்கு ஒரு சொற்றொடர் படையல் 3. Krishnamoorthy V (paper #8) |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Session 10- Invited Talk 4 | Dr. Vasu Renganathan (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) : என் பேரு தமிழு (eṉ pēru tamiḻu) : A Speech Recognition Robot for Tamil |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Session 11: Panel Discussion – AI and DL: Chair: Mr Malaikannan Sankarasubbu |
Experts Panel: AI and DL for Tamil: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 19.00 – 20.00 | Closing Session | Guest:
Prof. M. Ponnavaiko (Advisor, INFITT) |