INFITT's 16th World Tamil Internet Conference in Toronto, Canada, August 25-27, 2017
INFITT’s 16th Tamil Internet Conference
2017Toronto, Canada
August 25-27,
2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
The International Forum for Information Technology in
Tamil (INFITT) is pleased to inform that the 16th Tamil Internet
Conference 2017 will be held in the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus
in the Greater Toronto Area during August 25-27th, 2017
The INFITT annual conference is co-sponsored by the
University of Waterloo Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Canada and with the support of the University of Toronto.
Research papers in all the areas of Tamil Computing
are invited. We have identified two key areas for this year’s conference: Deep Learning and Data Science.
In addition to these thematic areas, Conference Program Committee welcomes
regular research papers on the following topics:
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in
Tamil, Spellchecker, Grammar checker,
Text Analytics/Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Speech recognition, TTS
Systems, Search engines,
Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Data-mining, etc.
Text Analytics/Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Speech recognition, TTS
Systems, Search engines,
Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Data-mining, etc.
• Corpus linguistics
• OCR and Handwriting Recognition
• Tamil "enabling" in mobile platforms
(smartphones, tablets, etc.) with particular emphasis for
Tamil Apps for use on iOS, Android and Windows platforms
Tamil Apps for use on iOS, Android and Windows platforms
• Open Source Tamil software and Tamil Localization
• Computer- and online-assisted Teaching, Learning of
Tamil
• Tamil content and delivery via Internet: Blogging, microblogging, Wikipedia, Podcasting,
social networks
social networks
• Tamil Digital Library, Digital Archiving
• Tamil Linked Data, Semantic Web, Data Science
pertaining to Tamil, Tamil Ontologies,
• Learning Management Systems, Virtual Learning,
All those interested in presenting a paper at the
conference are requested to submit a
2- page (A4) factual abstract, based on their research methodology and their research findings, to the Conference Program Committee at cpc2017@infitt.org beforeApril 15, May 15, 2017
2- page (A4) factual abstract, based on their research methodology and their research findings, to the Conference Program Committee at cpc2017@infitt.org before
The abstracts can be in Tamil, English or bilingual
(Tamil and English) but all abstracts must be written using Unicode encoding or
Tamil All Character Encoding (TACE).
Submission of an abstract implies that at least one
author of the paper will attend the conference to present the work in person.
Proxy or remote presentation is not permitted
Authors of papers accepted for presentation will be
informed on or before 15 May June 15, 2017. Authors of the accepted Abstracts should
submit their full papers, not less than 4 pages long and not exceeding 6 pages
long, on or before 15 June July 15, 2017.
The Conference Proceedings will be published in
printed paper format and as an e-book. Arrangements are being made to have the
Conference Proceedings of the annual Tamil Internet Conferences published with
an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). ISSN will permit routine
indexation of the Conference Proceedings in bibliographic databases of all
leading libraries across the globe and proper referencing of the content of the
Proceedings in academic journal publications.
We look forward to your active participation in the 16th
Tamil Internet conference 2017 If you have any questions or need further
clarifications, feel free to send us a note to
cpc2017@infitt.org.
Important Dates:
• Paper abstract due: 15 April May 15, 2017
• Paper acceptance notification: 15 May June 15, 2017
• Camera-ready full-paper submission: 15 June July 15, 2017
• Conference Days:
25-27 August 2017
(sd.). C.R. (Selva) Selvakumar
Chair, CPC, Tamil Internet Conference 2017
Members of the Conference Program Committee (2017):
Dr. N. Deivasundaram, Madras University, India
Dr. S. Rajendran, Amirtha University, India
Dr. A.G. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru
Dr. T.V. Geetha, Anna University, India
Dr. T. Nagarajan, S.S.N Engineering College, Chennai,
India
Dr. Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr .K. Kalyanasundaram, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. R. Shriram, Crescent University, India
Dr. V. Venkataramanan, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. K. Ponnambalam, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Savitha Ramasamy, Intitute of Infocomm Research,
Singapore
Dr. C. Rathinavelu, Interactions Corporation, Chicago
Dr. Mala Nehru, Anna University, India
Mr. L.K. Natkeeran, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Gerald Penn,
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