{"id":59,"date":"2021-09-06T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilinternetconference.org\/tic2021\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2021-11-26T03:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T09:25:34","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tamilinternetconference.org\/tic2021\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call-for-Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) organizes its annual conferences every year in collaboration with academic institutions in various parts of the world on various topics in Tamil computing, Tamil internet and Information Technology. Due to COVID for the past two years the conferences are conducted virtually and this year INFITT, the Bharathiar University, Coimbatore\u00a0 Tamil Nadu, the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, Chennai Institute of Technology (CIT) and Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)&#8221;this year INFITT and the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India collaboratively organize the <strong>\u201c20th Tamil Internet Conference 2021\u201d (TIC-2021) virtually from Dec. 02-05, 2021<\/strong>. The major theme for TIC \u2013 2021 is \u201cTamil Computing in the Virtual World\u201d. Prof. Marappa Ganesan, of the Annamalai University will act as the Chair and Dr. K. Parameswari &amp; Dr. Arulmozi of the University of Hyderabad will serve as Co-Chairs of the Conference Program Committee (CPC).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>A call is made here inviting researchers and students who are involved in the research on Tamil Computing, Information Technology and Natural Language processing to send a 1-2 page abstract of their paper for possible inclusion in one of the technical sessions of the conference. The content should be an original piece of work not presented in any other conferences or seminars in the past. All abstracts and papers will undergo a blind peer-review process and the decision to accept the paper will be final based on their recommendations. Best papers and presentations will be recognized with special certificates and monetary prizes in the range of Rs. 2000 to Rs. 5000 for each of the nominated papers. An award committee will review and monitor the outstanding papers and presentations during the conference and recommend to CPC for a suitable prize.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Tamil Internet Conference 2021, as in previous years, will address recent advances and challenges in all key areas of Tamil Computing and IT, particularly on applications with clear deliverables.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Natural Language Resources in Tamil (phonology,, morphology, syntax, semantics, POS dataset, treebanks, corpus linguistics, \u2026)<\/li>\r\n<li>Machine Translation of texts between Tamil and English and other Indian languages<\/li>\r\n<li>Text-to-Speech, Voice recognition, and Speech corpora, particularly in applications for physically challenged (\u201cassistive technologies)<\/li>\r\n<li>Search Engines, text analytics and data mining in \u201cbig data\u201d for Tamil content<\/li>\r\n<li>Tamil enabling in portable devices and Tamil apps for use on Android and iOS devices<\/li>\r\n<li>Open Source Tamil software and Tamil Localization of CMS and other packages<\/li>\r\n<li>Smart word-processing that includes spell-checker, grammar-checker, \u2026<\/li>\r\n<li>Computer-Aided Teaching and Learning of Tamil at all levels, Virtual classroom for Tamil Teaching and Learning Management Systems LMS<\/li>\r\n<li>Smart access of the Tamil content on the Internet, digital libraries in Tamil,\u2026<\/li>\r\n<li>Sentiment and Emotion Analysis and Opinion Mining in Social media in Tamil.<\/li>\r\n<li>Code-mixed and code-switching data and processing involving Tamil<\/li>\r\n<li>Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries for Tamil<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The submission of the paper should be in Unicode format with not less than ten pages but not more than twelve pages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper can be in Tamil, English, or bilingual (Tamil, English). <strong>Papers written in Tamil should include a one-page summary\/abstract in English. Bilingual texts with English being the primary language, Tamil examples may be typed in appropriate diacritics in Unicode with interlinear translation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INFITT is currently working on the inclusion of the conference papers in the <strong>SCOPUS <\/strong>database and hence the right formatting of the paper will be solicited.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If at least one author does not pre-register and confirm attendance, the paper will be withdrawn and not included in the conference proceedings, nor in any sessions during the conference.\u00a0 Recorded presentations or proxy presentations will not be accepted under any circumstances.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <strong>2 page abstract should be submitted through the Easychair portal<\/strong> submission\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=tic2021\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=tic2021 <\/a><strong>before the 10th October<\/strong> (extended) 2021.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please take note of the following deadlines related to the conference hub and paper presentations:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IMPORTANT DATES<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Paper Abstract Submission: 10th October , 2021<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Abstract acceptance notification: 15<sup>th<\/sup> of October, 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Full paper submission Deadline: 25th October 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Paper Acceptance Notification: 10th November 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Camera Ready Paper Submission: 25th November\u00a0 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0For clarifications pls email to\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:cpc2021@infitt.org\">cpc2021@infitt.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) organizes its annual conferences every year in collaboration with academic institutions in various parts of the world on various topics in Tamil computing, Tamil internet and Information Technology. 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