Summer 2019 Tamil Computing Essay Competition

Students (from 1st year in accredited college to final year and 1yr post graduation, bachelors degree only) are requested to participate in Summer 2019 Tamil Essay Competition.

Please submit a 4-8page essay on any of following topics of your choosing; essays are requested to be in the form of a project proposal and intent to benefit Tamil language development. Essay publication is granted to Ezhil Language Foundation. Essays can be in Tamil or English. Decision of judges is final and binding.

List of topics follows:

  1. Viterbi algorithm to decode spelling errors from big ram statistics
  2. Tamil Text to Speech synthesis using unit selection synthesis and AI approaches

Please email your entries in Word Doc or Open Office ODT format in UTF-8 Unicode encoding before September 4th, to email “ezhillang@gmail.com” with subject “essay competition 2019”

Please attach a note of your resume/ C.V. to the application.

Up to two winners maybe picked and announced by end of September 2019 and offered a opportunity to build a software.

Prize money of $100 and $75 are offered to any winners contingent on agreement of judges. If no suitable entries are present no prizes maybe declared.

Sincerely,

Ezhil Language Foundation