Thursday, October 23, 2008
Seminar at BU on e-potential of Tamil
Coimbatore: The Department of Linguistics of the Bharathiar
University will organise a national seminar on “e-Potentials
of Tamil Language in Telecommunication” on October 31
and November 1.
According to a university release, the seminar is expected to
be attended by scholars from the fields of language, and engineering
and technology.
Topics
Sponsored by Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education,
the seminar will include topics such as e-dictionary for Tamil
language, spell and grammar checks for Tamil, domain specific
interactive voice response system in Tamil, text to speech and
vice versa, and techniques for incorporating socio-linguistic
variations in speech into the corpus of Tamil.
Those interested in participating in the seminar, can register
with C. Shanmugam, Head, Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar
University, Coimbatore; or call 0422-2425164.
Courtesy: The Hindu