Localisation in the field of Information and Communication Technology in Sri Lanka has a history of more than five (05) years. However, there has never been a common platform for all the practitioners in the field of localisation to meet and share their experiences. The Symposium on Localised Systems and Applications, which was held on 2nd September, 2009 at the university premises was a step taken by the Centre of Excellence on Localised Applications of the University of Moratuwa, to fulfil this long-felt necessity. This symposium was organized to mark the inauguration of the Centre of Excellence on Localised Applications of the University of Moratuwa. This is expected to be the first of a chain of symposiums annually organised by the Center.
Programme
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Presenter |
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Topic |
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8.30 |
Inauguration |
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8.40 |
Gihan Dias |
UoM |
Welcome |
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8.50 |
Niranjan Gunawardena |
UoM |
Address by Deputy Vice Chancellor |
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9.00 |
J. B. Disanayaka |
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Keynote - Meaning: A Linguistic Analysis |
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9.45 |
Sanath Jayasena |
UoM |
Vote of Thanks |
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10.00 |
TEA |
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10.30 |
Session 1 |
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Chairman: Prof. Asoka Karunananda |
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10.30 |
Sanath Jayasena |
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10.45 |
G. Balachandaran |
APIIT |
Tamil Encoding, Keyboard Layout and Collation Standard for ICT in Sri Lanka |
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11.00 |
Sarves |
UoM |
Tamil Localisation Process |
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11.10 |
M. Mayuran |
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Demonstration of Tamil GNU/Linux Live-CD and dialog about Tamil on GNU/Linux |
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11.25 |
Gihan Fernando |
Gamos |
Creating games with a local flavour: From mobile to console |
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11.40 |
Rohana Dasanayaka |
ACCIMT |
Localising the Thunderbird e-Mail Client |
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11.50 |
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Official Lang Dept. |
Sinhala Glossaries |
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12.05 |
Madura Kulatunga |
Madura |
Madura online English-Sinhala Dictionary |
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12.20 |
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ScienceLand |
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12.35 |
Chamara Disanayake |
LKNIC |
Internationalised Domain Names in Sri Lanka |
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12.45 |
Wasantha Deshapriya |
ICTA |
Common repository for Localized Terms |
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13.00 |
LUNCH |
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14.00 |
Session 2 |
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Chairman: Dr. Sanath Jayasena |
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14.00 |
Asoka Karunananda |
UoM |
Experience in English to Sinhala Machine Translations |
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14.10 |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC |
Towards machine translation of local languages |
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14.25 |
Dulip Herath |
UCSC |
Building linguistic resources for Sinhala and Tamil |
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14.35 |
Viraj Welgama |
UCSC |
Building and extending TTS for Sinhala |
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14.45 |
Budditha Hettige |
USJP |
Sinhala computing work at SJP |
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15.00 |
Camillus Jayewardena |
UoP |
The Making of a Web Site of Sinhala Song Lyrics |
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15.10 |
Shaseevan Ganeshanathan |
Noolaham Foundation |
Local Language Content Preservation through Digitization and Archiving |
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15.25 |
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e-Fusion |
"සිසු උගනා ගම වඩනා" - ශිල්ප සයුර සමගින් ගමට තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණය සිංහලෙන් |
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15.35 |
Malinda Siriwardana |
e-Learning UCSC |
Moodle Localization - The Future |
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15.45 |
Nisansala Vidanapathirana |
University of Colombo Institute for Agro-technology and Rural Sciences |
Farmer Education in Sinhala Using Online Distance Learning |
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15.55 |
Sameera Wijeratne |
Dialog |
Nenasa TV |
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16.05 |
TEA |
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16.30 |
Session 3 |
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Chairman: Prof. Gihan Dias |
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16.30 |
Discussion |
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Localization Strategy for Sri Lanka |
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17.00 |
Conclusion |
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