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    • Bangla character recognition for Android devices 

      Manzur, Shahrin; Islam, Shafiqul; Foysal, Abu; Chowdhury, Aparajita (BRAC University, 2015-12)
      In this paper, we illustrate our attempt to create editable documents from images by retrieving the text. The process is widely known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We have tried to build an Android application ...
    • Bangla grammar and spelling check using machine learning 

      Ahmed, Foysal; Khan, Md Shahriar; Arafin, MD Emon; Al Abir, Abdullah; Begum, Mumtahina (Brac University, 2023-01)
      Bangla, or Bengali, is one of the world’s most spoken languages, with hundreds of millions of native speakers worldwide. Thousands of books are written in the Bangla language every year, and millions of people register ...
    • Bangla text extraction by digital image processing 

      Hoque, A. K. M Rashedul; Pandit, Proma Mrittika; Nasreen, Najia; Raihan, Hasin (2017-12)
      Optical character recognition (OCR) is a technology to extract the text from an image. The main purpose of an OCR is to make editable text documents from different scanned documents, image files or books. In this paper, ...
    • BnClinical-Sum: benchmarking datasets for Bangla long & short clinical dialogue summarization 

      Adib, Quazi Adibur Rahman; Alam, Sanjana Binte (Brac University, 2024-01)
      Despite significant improvements in the general-purpose text summarization task in the past decade, clinical conversion summarization is going through a tough time due to a lack of initiative to provide open-source ...
    • A double metaphone encoding for approximate name searching and matching in Bangla 

      Naushad UzZaman,; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2005)
      Almost any word can be a Bangali name, and the name in turn is often spelled in many different ways, all of which are considered correct and interchangeable. The reason for the spelling complication is two-fold: (1) there ...
    • Enhancing Bangla video comprehension through multimodal feature integration and attention-based encoder-decoder captioning models for single-action videos 

      Das, Saurav; Biswas, Shammo; Fahim, Taimoor; Sanjan, M.A.B. Siddique; Tarannum, Tasnia Alam (Brac University, 2024-05)
      Video understanding and description have an important role to play in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. The capacity of automatically generating natural language descriptions for video content ...
    • Gender classification in Bangla language using deep learning-based voice analysis 

      Hakim, Talukder Juhaer; Monsur, Sayema Binte; Shuvo, Abtahi Maskawath; Azrine, Tasmia; Labib, Md. Zarif (Brac University, 2023)
      Gender classification based on voice analysis is one of the elemental tasks in speech and audio processing, with various applications such as speech recognition systems, voice assistants, call center analytics, etc. For ...
    • Identifying hate speech of Bangla language text using natural language processing 

      Rahman, Mushfiqur; Jui, Razia Sultana; Sakib, Chowdhury Nazmuz; Ridoy, Fahim Alavi; Ananya, Taskiea Tabassum (Brac University, 2024-01)
      In this era of the internet, sharing information through social media has provided significant benefits to humans. People can easily access and observe others’ lifestyles and work, as well as make comments or share ...
    • Indigenous languages in Bangladesh & bilingualism: a qualitative study 

      Sumayra, Nusrat (Brac University, 2023-06)
      Bangladesh is a country of various cultures. People from different cultures reside in Bangladesh. Language is one of the integral parts of culture. Without language a person would be incomplete. There are around forty-two ...
    • A smart avatar tutor for mimicking characters of Bangla sign language 

      Islam, Apu; Rahman, Somaya Al Sadia; Bhowmick, Pratick (Brac University, 2024-01)
      This paper presents an efficient novel approach to developing a smart avatar tutor for teaching Bangla Sign Language (BSL). The avatar is designed to mimic the numbers and alphabets used in BSL, providing an interactive ...
    • Understanding English-medium schools students’ interest in Bangla Language 

      Zarin, Farzana (Brac University, 2021-02)
      Students are encouraged to speak in the Bangla language at the school premises. Students are losing their interest in speaking Bangla and in Bangla language as well. Hence it is important to know the reason for losing ...