Browsing Centre for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP) by Title

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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • A double metaphone encoding for Bangla and its application in spelling checker 

      Naushad UzZaman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2005)
      We present a Double Metaphone encoding for Bangla that can be used by spelling checkers to improve the quality of suggestions for misspelled words. The complex rules of Bangla spelling present a significant challenge in ...

    • Example based English-Bengali machine translation using wordnet 

      Salm, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam; Khan, Mumit; Nishino, Tetsuro (BRAC University, 2009)
      In this paper we propose an architecture of English-Bengali Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) using WordNet. The proposed EBMT system has five steps: 1) Tagging 2) Parsing 3) Prepare the chunks of the sentence using ...

    • Feature unification for morphological parsing in Bangla 

      Dasgupta, Sajib; Khan, Dr. Mumit (BRAC University, 2004)
      This paper describes a Feature Unification Based Word Grammar model for the morphological parsing of Bangla words. While normal morphological parsing strategy is adequate to decompose a word into morphemes, it is not able ...

    • GIS Based Real Time Traveler Information System: An Efficient Approach to Minimize Travel Time Using Available Media 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Haque, Mohammad Mahmudul; 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 ...

    • A high performance domain specific OCR for Bangla script 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      Research on recognizing Bengali script has been started since mid 1980’s. A variety of different techniques have been applied and the performance is examined. In this paper we present a high performance domain specific OCR ...

    • A high performance domain specific OCR for Bangla script 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2008)
      Abstract-Research on recognizing Bengali script has been started since mid 1980’s. A variety of different techniques have been applied and the performance is examined. In this paper we present a high performance domain ...

    • History (Forward N-Gram) or future (Backward N-Gram)? Which model to consider for N-Gram analysis in Bangla? 

      Khan, Naira; Habib, Md. Tarek; Alam, Md. Jahangir; Rahman, Rajib; UzZaman, Naushad; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper presents a directional advantage of n-gram modeling in terms of backward or forward n-gram modeling in Bangla. The most commonly used n-gram analysis is predominantly a forward n-gram. However in Bangla it appears ...

    • Infrastructure for Bangla information retrieval in context of ICT for development 

      Haque, Nafid; Ali, M Hammad; Abduallah, Matin Saad (BRAC University, 2006)
      In this paper, we talk about developing a search engine and information retrieval system for Bangla. Current work done in this area assumes the use of a particular type of encoding or the availability of particular facilities ...

    • Integrating Bangla computing support in openoffice.org 

      Sarkar, Asif Iqbal; Pavel, Dewan Shahriar Hossain; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      This paper addresses the issues of Integrating Bangla Computing support for OpenOffice.org office suite and in the process, Identifies and describes the different problems associated with OpenOffice.org and that should ...