Talks

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

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