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    • Acoustic analysis of Bangla consonants 

      Alam, Firoj; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2008)
      This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of Bangla consonants, obtained by analyzing the recordings of male and female voices. First, the duration of each phoneme was identified by averaging both the male and ...
    • Acoustic analysis of Bangla vowel inventory 

      Alam, Firoj; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2008)
      This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of Bangla vowels, obtained by analyzing the recordings of male and female voices. First, the duration of each phoneme was identified by averaging both the male and female ...
    • Acoutstic analysis of Bangla consonants 

      Alam, Firoj; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2008)
      This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of Bangla consonants, obtained by analyzing the recordings of male and female voices. First, the duration of each phoneme was identified by averaging both the male and ...
    • Analysis of and observations from a Bangla News Corpus 

      Majumder, Khair Md. Yasir Arafat (BRAC University, 2006)
      In this paper we present the compilation methodology and some statistical analysis on a Bangla news corpus-“Prothom-Alo”, which is the first of its kind for Bangla. We compare some of the statistics with the CIIL Bangla ...
    • Analysis of N-Gram based text categorization for Bangla in a newspaper 

      Mansur, Munirul; UzZaman, Naushad; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      In this paper, we study the outcome of using ngram based algorithm for Bangla text categorization. To analyze the efficiency of this methodology we used one year Prothom-Alo news corpus. Our results show that n-grams of ...
    • Automatic Bangla corpus creation 

      Sarkar, Asif Iqbal; Pavel, Dewan Shahriar Hossain; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      This paper addresses the issue of automatic Bangla corpus creation, which will significantly help the processes of Lexicon development, Morphological Analysis, Automatic Parts of Speech Detection and Automatic grammar ...
    • A Bangla phonetic encoding for better spelling suggesions 

      Naushad UzZaman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2004)
      We present a phonetic encoding for Bangla that can be used by spelling checkers to provide better suggestions for misspelled words. The encoding is based on the Soundex algorithm, modified to match Bangla phonetics. We ...
    • Bangla text input and rendering supports for short message sevice on Mobile devices 

      Rownok, Tofazzal; Islam, Md. Zahurul; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      Technology is the most important thing that involve in our everyday life. It is involving in almost every aspect of life like communication, work, shopping, recreation etc. Communication through mobile devices is the most ...
    • Building a foundation of HPSG-based treebank on Bangla language 

      Mahmud, Altaf; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      Now a day, the importance of a large annotated corpus for NLP researchers is widely known. In this paper, we describe an initial phase of developing a linguistically annotated corpus for non-configurational ‘Bangla’ language. ...
    • BWN- A software platform for developing Bengali wordnet 

      Khan, Mumit; Faruqe, Farhana (BRAC University, 2008)
      Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications are increasingly dependent on the availability of linguistic resources, ranging from digital lexica to rich tagged and annotated corpora. While these resources are ...
    • Collaborative lexicon development for Bangla 

      Pavel, Dewan Shahriar Hossain; Sarkar, Asif Iqbal; Shah, Faisal Muhammad; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper addresses the issue of building a Bangla lexicon with a collaborative effort through stand alone application and web based interface. The words in the lexicon will be annotated with a combination of tags addressing ...
    • Comparion of different POS tagging technique (N-Gram, HMM and Brill's tagger) for Bangla 

      Hasan, Fahim Muhammad; Naushad UzZaman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      There are different approaches to the problem of assigning each word of a text with a parts-of-speech tag, which is known as Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging. In this paper we compare the performance of a few POS tagging ...
    • Comparison of Unigram, Bigram, HMM and Brill's POS tagging approaches for some South Asian languages 

      Hasan, Muhammad Fahim; Naushad UzZaman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging is a process that attaches each word in a sentence with a suitable tag from a given set of tags. POS Tagging is important in various areas of Natural Language Processing. Different methods of ...
    • A comprehensive Bangla spelling checker 

      Naushad UzZaman,; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      We present a comprehensive Bangla spelling checker that improves the quality of suggestions for misspelled words. The complex rules for Bangla spelling presents a significant challenge in producing suggestions for a ...
    • A comprehensive Bangla spelling checker 

      Naushad UzZaman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      We present a comprehensive Bangla spelling checker that improves the quality of suggestions for misspelled words. The complex rules for Bangla spelling presents a significant challenge in producing suggestions for a ...
    • A comprehensive roman (English)-to-Bangla transliteration scheme 

      Naushad UzZaman,; Zaheen, Arnab; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      A transliteration scheme from Roman (English) to Bangla can help increase the use of Bangla in essential and diverse computing areas such as word processing, Internet and mobile communication and information query and ...
    • A decentralised approach to information retrieval for a developing country like Bangladesh 

      Ali, Hammad; Haque, Nafid (BRAC University, 2007)
      In this paper, we talk about a decentralised information retrieval system which would be suitable for the developing countries that face the problem of limited bandwidth. In this paper we came up with an implementation ...
    • Detecting flames and insults in text 

      Mahmud, Altaf; Ahmed, Kazi Zubair; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2008-12)
      While the internet has become the leading source of information, it is also become the medium for flames, insults and other forms of abusive language, which add nothing to the quality of information available. A human ...
    • Developing a computational grammar for Bengali using the HPSG formalism 

      Khan, Naira; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper describes the first phase of developing a computational grammar for Bengali using the Head- Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) formalism. The HPSG formalism is a highly developed framework that combines ...
    • Development of annotated Bangla speech corpora 

      Alam, Firoj; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Sultana, Dil Afroza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2010)
      This paper describes the development procedure of three different Bangla read speech corpora which can be used for phonetic research and developing speech applications. Several criteria were maintained in the corpora ...