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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 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 ...
    • Analysis of N-Gram based text categorization for Bangla in a newspaper corpus 

      Mansur, Munirul (BRAC University, 2006-08)
      The goal of any classification is to build a set of models that can correctly predict the class of different objects. Text categorization is one such application and can be used in many classification task, e.g. news ...
    • Application of augmented reality: Mobile camera based bangla text detection and translation 

      S.Mahbub-Uz-Zaman; Islam, Tanjina (BRAC University, 12/12/2012)
      In this paper, we demonstrate an Augmented Reality based Bangla text detection and translation application on Android-platform (2.2). This application recognizes the text that is captured by a mobile phone camera and ...
    • 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 ...
    • Automatic recognition of Bangla sign language 

      Choudhury, Najeefa Nikhat; Kayas, Golam (BRAC University, 2012-12)
      Sign Language is the mode of communication among the deaf and dumb. However, integrating them into the main stream is very difficult as the majority of the society is unaware of their language. So, to bridge the communication ...
    • Automatic will enabled system of multi-modal operation 

      Karim, Md. Risul; Waliullah, Syed Shaiyan Kamran; Kamal, Badruddin; Rhaman, Md. Khalilur; Khan, Mumit; Jamil, Insan Arafat (© 2013 IEEE, 2013)
      AWESOMMO(Automatic Will Enabled System of Multi-Modal Operation)uses Sony PS3 Eye image sensor for high speed image processing and a microphone for voice recognition commands. Armed with 3 degrees of freedom of operation, ...
    • Bangla optical character recognition using Kohonen network 

      Shatil, Adnan Md. Shoeb (BRAC University, 2006-05)
      This report is based on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) specially Bangla (National Language of Bangladesh) Optical Character Recognition process and its steps. The whole idea is converting text images into editable ...
    • 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 ...
    • Bengali character recognition using feature extraction 

      Arif, Samiur Rahman (BRAC University, 2007-12)
      The Character Recognition Problem can be assumed as a classification task in which a (portion of an) image is to be given a label among a set of possible labels that represent the characters under consideration. This is ...
    • Bengali Segmented automated speech recognition 

      Hoque, A.K.M. Mahmudul (BRAC University, 2006-05)
      Speech recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech have been an elusive goal of research since 1970. For understanding speech human not only consider for information passed to the ears but also judge the information ...
    • Bioinformatics : analyzing DNA sequence using BLAST 

      Rahman, Nadim Naimur (BRAC University, 9/5/2007)
      This paper attempts to use the BLAST simulator to analyze a DNA sequence and interpret the results in a way that are understandable for bio technologists. It shows how to install, build and run the simulator using an input ...
    • Bootstrapping of a rule based English-Bangla machine translation system using work done for a sister language 

      Tahin, E.M. Yeaseenur Rahman (BRAC University, 2010-08)
      The idea of machine translation is not new and started from 17th century. The purpose of machine translation is to translate one human language to other human language. By saying human language it means- Bangla, English, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Code generation for JVM , NET, and MIPS targets from C minus language 

      Islam, Zahurul (BRAC University, 2005-05)
      The C was one of the well-built and popular language in the field of computer science. Now this days programmers are move away form C to use in the field of software development. One of the main causes is most of the ...
    • 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 ...