International Telugu Internet Conference - 2011

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Dept. of IT&C, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

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SiliconAndhra

Global Internet Forum for Telugu (GIFT)

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International Telugu Internet Conference 2011

 

September 28-30, 2011

India Community Center, Milpitas, CA, USA

 

GIFT cordially invites you to International Telugu Internet Conference (ITIC 2011). This is a first of its kind conference, to assess and take stock of the current state of affairs in the use of Internet and Information Technology for the promotion of Telugu language. ITIC 2011 will be held from September 28 to 30th in Silicon Valley, CA, USA.

A considerable number of experts in the area of Telugu Language Computing have been working in the areas of Internet and Information Technology for some time. A greater need is seen today than ever before to bring all of them on to a single forum facilitating dialogue among them as a concerted approach aiming for the development of research and dissemination of information in Telugu for the benefit of public. You are invited to attend the conference and participate in the discussions. Please see the highlights below:

Highlights of ITIC 2011

·         First of its kind in Telugu language history

·         For the very first time in USA a Telugu Internet Exhibition is also being planned.

·         Papers on Applications and Research  in Telugu Computing.

·         An exclusive session on the computing needs of Telugu

·         Exclusive program to encourage children to use Telugu in computers.

·         Exclusive sessions for Telugu Unicode font creation by professional font creators

·         And much more… are being considered.

 

The details and the updates of the ITIC will be made available at http://gift.siliconandhra.org. If you need any further information, please feel free to contact me or other conference chairs.

 

 

Anand Kuchibhotla

Chairman, SiliconAndhra

an...@siliconandhra.org

 

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Global Internet Forum for Telugu (GIFT) is pleased to announce that the International Telugu Internet Conference 2011 (First in the series) will be held at the India Community Center, Milpitas, USA during September 28-30, 2011.

 

  Prof. Peri Bhaskararao (Tokyo) has kindly agreed to be the Chair of Conference Program Committee (CPC).  Prof. G. Uma Maheshwar Rao (University of Hyderabad)   has given his consent to be the Convener of the Conference Program Committee (CPC). Information about various committees for the conduct of the Conference will be updated shortly. Dilip Kondiparti will be the Chair of the Conference Organizing Committee (COC) and KiranPrabha will be the Chair of ITIC 2011 Conference Secretariat Committee (CSC).

The CPC will deal with paper submission and scheduling of the conference content (invited lectures and submitted papers). The theme of this conference has been proposed as “Telugu in the Internet Age” aiming to the development of research on computational literary research for Telugu.

 

We take this opportunity to invite technical papers for presentation at ITIC 2011 on all topics relating Telugu with Computers and/or Internet in general and research on Telugu literary studies with Computers and/or Internet in particular. Please send in your abstracts not later than 31^st July 2011. We will try to expedite the acceptance of abstracts and papers as and when we receive them facilitating the international scholars to be able to obtain their visa and funding from their institutions on time.

Being the Inaugural Conference, ITIC 2011 will hold intensive and extensive technical sessions dealing with all aspects of the use of Telugu on the internet.  Following is a preliminary list of topics (which can be further expanded):

v  Language Technology Tools for Telugu

§ Fonts, editors, Spell checkers, Grammar Checkers, Morphological analyzers and Generators, POS taggers, Parsers etc. Machine Translation Systems, OCR systems, Handwriting Recognition systems; Speech I/O systems;  Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)

v  Computational Lexicons for Telugu: Electronic/Digital dictionaries for Telugu: Monolingual, bilingual and Multilingual; Dialectal dictionaries

v  Telugu Corpora

§ Ancient, Inscriptional, Classical and Modern texts; Dialects; Domains: Literature, Social, Sciences, Science and Technology, Medicine, Law etc.

§ Annotation and Analysis

v  Search Engines for Telugu

v  Telugu Content Development on the Internet/Web; Digital libraries; Cascading Style Sheet    Standard

v  Computational analysis of Telugu: Studies in Telugu Linguistics; Grammar writing with computational aids;

v  Tools for Telugu Computing: plug-ins, browsers, convertors, etc.

v  Enabling and embedding of Telugu in platforms such as Smart-phones and other hand-held devices, PDAs, iPhones and other mobiles; Rasterizer & Layout Engine for Telugu

v  Issues in character encoding of Telugu in Unicode

v  Issues in character encoding of Telugu and its compatibility across different software

v  Keyboards and IMEs for Telugu

v  Commercial solutions and e-commerce

v  Application of Telugu net-technology in E-Governance

v  Telugu Localization of software and OS and Open Source software

 

- PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND ACCEPTANCE:

-- Potential paper-presenters should send Abstracts (half of A4 page size) of their intended papers by July 31^st , 2011.

-- The abstracts will be reviewed and by August 8^th, 2011and the submitters will be informed whether their abstracts have been accepted or otherwise.

-- By August 29th, a 3-to-4-page long paper will be due from those whose abstracts have been accepted.

- FORMAT:

-- Medium:  All submissions (abstracts and full-length papers) need to be sent electronically in Unicode-encoded format (both for Roman as well as for Telugu).  Matter composed in Roman should be in 12pt Times New Roman and matter composed in Telugu should be in a Unicode compliant encoding (using fonts such as Gautami and preferably, Potana).  Submissions in non-Unicode compliant fonts will not be entertained. In some cases, PDF versions of the full-length papers will be required (and will be asked if necessary).

-- Template:  Although there is no template prescribed for the submission of abstracts, a Template file in MSWord will be prescribed for submission of full-length papers.  It will be uploaded onto the Conference website. Whether it is a template submission or not, the Unicode-compliance prescribed above will have to be strictly followed.

- PRE-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

-- All the accepted full-length papers will be issued in a Pre-Conference Proceedings volume (in print or in electronic format or in both).  This volume will be made available during the Conference.

- PAPER PRESENTATION:

-- An accepted paper need to be presented orally by one the authors of the paper.  Time-limits, and other procedures etc. for actual presentation at the conference will be prescribed in due course. Since the author has to present and participate in the ensuing discussion, papers cannot be presented in absentia.

 

For further details, please contact the following:

Dr. Peri Bhaskararao

pbr...@yahoo.com

Dr. Uma Maheswar Rao        gura...@yahoo.com

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with Regards
Christopher M
Systems Manager
IL-ILMT Phase II
CALTS,
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad.
ph: 09652011464

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Gentle Reminder
Dear all please try to send an Abstract.
Hope to see you all in US with papers.

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