International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) is organising The Young Researchers Conference (YRC) on 13 & 14 October 2023 in collaboration Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT), Coimbatore .
We hereby call for papers from Young researchers within the age of 35yrs old to submit their abstracts on their topics relevant to the theme.. A call is made here inviting Young researchers and students who are involved in the research on Tamil Computing, Information Technology 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.
- Machine Translation of texts between Tamil and English and other Indian languages
- Text-to-Speech, Voice recognition, and Speech corpora, particularly in applications for physically challenged (“assistive technologies)
- Search Engines, text analytics and data mining in “big data” for Tamil content
- Tamil enabling in portable devices and Tamil apps for use on Android and iOS devices
- Open Source Tamil software and Tamil Localization of CMS and other packages
- Smart word-processing that includes spell-checker, grammar-checker, …
- Computer-Aided Teaching and Learning of Tamil at all levels, Virtual classroom for Tamil Teaching and Learning Management Systems LMS
- Smart access of the Tamil content on the Internet, digital libraries in Tamil,…
- Sentiment and Emotion Analysis and Opinion Mining in Social media in Tamil.
- Code-mixed and code-switching data and processing involving Tamil
- Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries for Tamil
Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following:
The submission of the paper should be in Unicode format with not less than ten pages but not more than twelve pages.
The paper can be in Tamil, English, or bilingual (Tamil, English). 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.
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. Recorded presentations or proxy presentations will not be accepted under any circumstances.
Submission of abstract before 30th September 2023.
Please take note of the following deadlines related to the conference hub and paper presentations:
IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for abstract Submission: 30th September, 2023
- Abstract acceptance notification: 4th October, 2023.
- Full paper submission deadline:10th October 2023.
- Paper Acceptance Notification: 5th October 2023.