Activities of Tamil Virtual Academy
Activities of Tamil Virtual Academy
- Academic Programmes
- Digital Library
- Tamil Computing
Academic Programmes
Tamil Virtual Academy is offering Academic Programmes viz., Primary Education, Certificate Course, Diploma, Higher Diploma and Degree (B.A. Tamilology).
Digital Library
The digital copies of the material includes rare printed books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual material and to enhance its interface that support for all researchers, lifelong learners. (www.tamildigitallibrary.in )In Tagavalaatruppadai, the Archaeological & Historical sites, Monuments, Excavations, Inscriptions, Religious places, Sculptures, Coins, Copper Plates and painting were captured as photograph and these images were uploaded in the web portal with necessary metadata in standard format. (www.tagavalaatruppadai.in)
Tamil Computing
To promote Tamil Computing research, Tamil Virtual Academy is constructing a basic database and related Tamil software tools.
- Research and Development
Tamil Virtual Academy has undertaken a long term Research and Development Programme on Tamil Language Technology and Natural Language Processing (NLP). It aims to create software tools like word processor, spell checker, Optical Character Recognizer (OCR), Unicode Converter, text recognizer, text summarization, speech recognizer, speech synthesizer and automatic translator.
- KanitamilPeravai
To create awareness on the necessity of Tamil Computing “kanitamilperavai” has been started in 100 colleges and universities which include arts and science, engineering, agriculture and medical colleges. Till date more than 10000 students from various Colleges / Universities have registered for KanitamilPeravai.
