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 and
IEEE Canada 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.
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
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
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 before April 15, 2017
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 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 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 2017
Paper acceptance notification: 15 May 2017
Camera-ready full-paper submission: 15 June 2017
Conference Days: 25-27 August 2017
C.R. (Selva) Selvakumar Iniya Nehru Suganthi Nadar
Chair, CPC, Executive Director Chair, INFITT
Tamil Internet Conference 2017
cpc2017@infitt.org INFITT
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
