18th Tamil Internet Conference 2019 (TIC2019) at , , India, September 20-22, 2019. Organized jointly by Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University, INFITT in Collaboration with CIIL & TamilNadu Govt. , KCT (https://tamilinternetconference.org/tic2019/) We are excited to announce the 18th edition of Tamil Internet Conference 2019 (TIC2019), the conference on Tamil Computing to be held at Anna University, Chennai. Research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Language Processing faces a number of significant challenges, especially in the development of tools, resources and systems for languages other than English such as Tamil. Most of the research in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence is predominantly for English. In this context Tamil Internet Conference (TIC) has emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and discussion of the best research results for the work on in the areas of Tamil Computing and Computational Linguistics. Initiated in 1997 at Singapore, the TIC series has established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the works on Tamil Computing ranging from theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus studies, computational modelling and high end applications. The series is unique in that it covers Tamil Computing from such a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives. In this Eighteenth edition of TIC2019, "Tamil Robotics and Language Processing” has been chosen as the special focus theme. There are invited talks, paper presentations and exhibition on this theme. Invited talks by eminent researchers in the area Prof. Rajeev Sangal (Professor, IIIT Hyderabad) Prof. A. G Ramakrishna , (IISc Bangalore), Prof. V Krishnamoorthy (Rtd. Anna University) Dr. Monojit Choudary (Microsoft Research India), Ms, Aparna ( Amazon, India) Prof. Rajendran, S ( Amrita Viswavidyalayam), Prof. Nagarajan (SSN, Chennai) Dr. Dhanalakshmi . V ( Govt Collage, Krishnagiri), Prof. Vasu Ranganathan (University of Pennsylvania) Dr. Ramamoorthy L ( Rtd CIIL, Mysore), Dr. James Anthonysamy (Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai).

We are inviting Research scholars, Faculty, Industry to participate in the event.

Conference Registration Students, Research Scholars and Faculty: Free Registration For registration of Academia: http://www.annauniv.edu/tic2019

Industry: Rs. 4500/- (INFITT Members: Rs.3500/-) For Industry: https://tamilinternetconference.org/tic2019/index.php/registration/

Conference Dates: 20-22 September 2019

The detailed program is available on https://tamilinternetconference.org/tic2019/

Patrons Prof. M. K Surappa, Vice Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai Prof. M. Ananadakrishnan. Former Vice Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai Prof. M. Ponnavaiko, Provost, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation, Prof. K. Ramasamy, Director, Academic and Faculty Development, SRM University, Chennai Prof. V. Murugasen, Vice Chancellor, , Tamil Nadu, Dr. D. G Rao, Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore Thiru. Shanakar Vanavrayar, Joint Correspondent, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore

International Organizing Committee Dr. Murugaiyan, A. School of advanced Studies, EPH, Paris(Chair) Prof. T. V Geetha, Dean, CEG, Anna University, Chennai (Co-Chair)

Local Organizing Committee Prof. Ranjani Parthasarathi, Anna University, Chennai (Chair) Mr. Maniam.S, Singapore. (Co-Chair)

Conference Program Committee Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (Chair) Dr. L. Sobha, AU- KBC Center, Anna University, Chennai, India (Co-Chair)