Talks

I frequenty give talks and presentation of Language computing and related topics.

2024

• Oct 24: Parametric type design in the era of variable and color fonts” in the Grapholinguistics conference 2024. The conference was held in Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice from 23rd to 25th October 2024 - https://thottingal.in/blog/2024/10/25/grapholinguistics-2024/

• Feb 27: "മലയാളത്തിന്റെ ഡിജിറ്റൽ സൗന്ദര്യം" - പുതുശ്ശേരി രാമചന്ദ്രൻ അനുസ്മരണ സെമിനാർ, കേരള സർവകലാശാല. Slides

• Jan 6: "നിർമിതിബുദ്ധി മാതൃകകളിലെ മലയാളം" - ആധുനികാനന്തര സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങൾ എന്ന ദേശീയ സെമിനാറിനോടുനബന്ധിച്ചുള്ള പ്രഭാഷണം.Slides

2023

• Sept 4, "Machine Translation at Wikipedia" at the Workshop on Asian Language Translation during MT Summit 2023 https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2023/

• Aug 17, State of Machine Learning at Wikipedia - Wikimania 2023, Singapore

• Agu 16, Machine learning for Wikipedia - hackathon orientation talk at Hackathon, Wikimania 2023, Singapore

• Aug 15, Languages and Translation projects at Wikimedia, "Mind the Gap", Google Asia Pacific Headquarters, Singapore

• June 15, Machine translation at Wikipedia. Invited talk at Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation, part of EAMT 2023 Tampere, Finland.

2022

• 2022 Nov 4 മലയാളലിപിയുടെ ഡിജിറ്റൽ വർത്തമാനം- Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishath. Recording

• March 10, Introduction to Malayalam Computing, Kerala University. Video recording

2021

• November 1, Malayalam Computing, Malabar Christian College. Video recording

• October 22 -Malayalam computing, Malayalam department, Kaladi Sanskrit University

• May 29, IEEE Student Branch College of Engineering Chengannur

2020

• Feb 15: Professional Student Summit, CUSAT, Kochi

• June 19: വായനാദിനം - കോട്ടയം മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധി യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി - മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ്

• Aug 9: Tamil Virutal Academi meetup on Tamil computing

• Sep 12: NSS Collge of Engineering - Anniversary talk on FOSS Cell - Malayalam computing

• COVID-19 Lockdown time video interviews

2019

• Dec 16: Malayalam computing, Kerala University

• Nov 1: While receiving Mathrubhasha Puraskaram, Kaladai Sanskit University.

• Oct 16: Malayalam computing, Government arts college, Malappuram.

• Oct 11: IEEE Malabar Hub Meet -2k19, GEC Palakkad

• Feb 24 – Malayalam computing, Excelsior 2019 by IEEE, GEC Palakkad

• Feb 16 – Malayalam computing, National conference on Sanskrit and language computing, Kaladi Sanskrit University.

2018

• December 16 – Malayalam computing introduction, Kerala University

• July 20, Can computers understand Malayalam – Keynote speech, International Conference on Next Gen Information Systems and Technologies organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad.

• June 14, 15 Graphemics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge, held at Pôle numérique Brest Iroise at Brest, France, presented a paper titled: Malayalam Orthographic Reforms: Impact on Language and Popular Culture[pdf].

• March 17, 2018 National Conference on Indian Language Computing, CUSAT, Kochi, plenary session talk on Functional Morphology Analyzer and Generator for Malayalam using Finite State Transducer Technology

• March 2, 2018 ‘Spiral splines in typeface design: A case study of Manjari Malayalam typeface’.Paper presented at Typoday conference, Mumbai

• 6 February 2018, Malayalam morphology analysis – International Seminar on Malayalam language and globalization, University of Calicut.

2017

• 21 December 2017, Malayalam Computing, Talk at Swathanthra 2017 International free software conference

• 13 August 2017,Bringing languages closer to enrich each other, Wikimania 2017, Montreal Canada

2016

• August 20, 2016 Understanding the text rendering with Malayalam script as example. ICEFOSS 2016, FISAT Angamali, Kerala.

• November 3, 2016. 40th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA, USA. Story of one hundred thousand translations(pdf), Google drive

2015

• October 27, 2015 How We Built the Most Multilingual Translation System for Wikipedia, Internationalization & Unicode Conference(IUC39), San Jose, USA.

• July 12, 2015 Content translation, Revolutionizing article creation, Wikimania 2015, Mexico city

• May 11, 2015 Presented a paper on Machine aided content translation at Wikimedia at European Association of Machine Translation conference, Antalya, Turkey.

• Feb 27, 2015 ” മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് സാധ്യതകള്‍ വെല്ലുവിളികള്‍”, UGC Sponsored national seminar on Malayalam Informatics, Christ College, Irinjalakkuda, Kerala.

2014

• Dec 19, 2014 “Building blocks of Indic language computing”, Swatantra 2014, Thiruvananthapuram

• Dec 16, 17 – 13th Anniversary programs of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

• Dec 12, 2014 Inaugurated college website of VTB College Srikrishnapuram

• Oct 2, 2014 Inaugurated new classrooms of Katampazhippuram Junior school

• Aug 8, 2014 Machine aided content translation for wikipedia, Wikimania 2014, London

• May 7, 2014 W3C Multilingual web workshop, Madrid, Spain

• Jan 6, 2014 “Malayalam Computing”, FISAT College, Angamali

2013

• Sept 28. 2013 Multilingual Computing, FYPM, ICFOSS, Thriuvananthapuram.

• Oct 14, 2013 മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് സാധ്യതകള്‍, 12th Anniversary of SMC, Thrissur.

• Aug 7, 2013 MediaWiki i18n getting data-driven and world-reusable, Wikimania, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

• March 2, 2013, Digital libraries and wikisource, Kerala Library Congress, Koratty, Thrissur.

• Jan 3, 2013, Kerala Bhasha Institute, Seminar on Malayalam language and computing, Kozhikkode

• Oct 7, 2013 Workshop on Multilingual Computing, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram.

2012

• Sept 20, 2012 Making the Web Mulitlingual, San francisco state university.

• Feb 26, 2012 Internet Freedom- Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishath IT Convention, Cochin.

• Jan 23, 2012 Web,Malayalam and possibilities, Higher Secondary teachers training, Ottappalam

• Jan 7, 2012 Malayalam Computing Introduction, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad

2011

• Mar 26, 2011 Indic language computing and wikipedia to students of Pune Institute of Computer Technology(webinar)

• Jan 2, 2011 , International Congress onKerala studies, Thiruvananthapuram – Malayalam Computing, Unicode Issues, and Technical challenges.

2010

• December 12, 2010, IIT Chennai – ILUGC Monthly meeting – Project Silpa

• September 25,26, 2010 : Project Silpa, PyCon India Conference, Banglore

• August 22, 2010: Indic Language computing Introduction and workout: Red Hat office , Pune. Students from engineering colleges attended. Praveen A cordinated and Red Hat sponsored the venue.

• July 9,2010: Offline wikipedia and wiki2cd software-Wokshop. Wikimania 2010, Gdansk, Poland.

• February28, 2010: Indic Language computing, Natural Language processing and python- Keynote speech at Carte Blanche , Madras Institute of technology. Chennai

2009

• Project SILPA workout : FOSS.in 2009, Banglore

• National Conference on ICTs for the differently- abled/under privileged communities in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship 2009 – (NCIDEEE 2009), Loyola College Chennai , Dec 1-3.

• Indic Language computing, FOSS meet @ Model engg College Aluva, 2009 January

2008

• Developing Speech Enabled Applications For Indian Languages and Dhvani TTS FOSS.in 2008,IISC Banglore

2007

• Dhvani: Indian Language Text to Speech System- Demo, Adding Language support, Usage , workshop. FOSS.in 2007, IISC, Banglore

• Dhvani TTS, FOSS Meet at NIT Calicut , March 2-4 2007