Centre for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP): Recent submissions
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Detecting flames and insults in text
(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 ... -
Text to speech for Bangla language using festival
(BRAC University, 2007)In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the open-source Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing ... -
Collaborative lexicon development for Bangla
(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 proposed automated extraction procedure of Bangla text for corpus creation in unicode
(BRAC University, 2006)This paper addresses the issue of automated Bangla corpus creation, which will significantly help the processes of lexicon development, morphological analysis, automatic parts of speech detection and automatic grammar ... -
A comprehensive roman (English)-to-Bangla transliteration scheme
(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 ... -
Acoustic analysis of Bangla consonants
(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 ... -
A comprehensive Bangla spelling checker
(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 ... -
Segmentation free Bangla OCR using HMM: Training and recognition
(BRAC University, 2007)The wide area of the application of HMM is in Speech Recognition where each spoken word is considered as a single unit to be recognized from the trained word network. Using this concept some research has been done for ... -
BWN- A software platform for developing Bengali wordnet
(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 ... -
A decentralised approach to information retrieval for a developing country like Bangladesh
(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 ... -
Text to speech for Bangla language using festival
(BRAC University, 2007)In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the opensource Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing ... -
Skew angle detection of bangla script using radon transform
(BRAC University, 2006)Skew angle detection and correction an integral part of any OCR system. Without proper skew correction, the performance of an OCR will simply not be acceptable for most scanned images. We propose an innovative method for ... -
Research report on Bengla tagset
(BRAC University, 2007)This report describes the design of a POS tagset for Bangla, based on the Penn Treebank design. The resulting tagset contains 53 morpho-syntactic tags. -
Research report on Bengla tagged lexicon
(BRAC University, 2007)This report describes the design and implementation of a Bangla tagged lexicon. The resulting lexicon contains 144,770 entries, out of which 58,145 are verbs. The tags used in the lexicon are reproduced here from a previous ... -
Research report on Bangla optical character recognition using Kohonen network
(BRAC University, 2007)This report discusses the theory and implementation of an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Bangla. The principal idea is to convert images of text documents such as those obtained from scanning a document into ... -
Research report on Bengla OCR training and testing methods
(BRAC University, 2007)In this paper we present the training and recognition mechanism of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based multi-font Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for Bengali character. In our approach, the central idea is to ... -
Research report on Bengla lexicon
(BRAC University, 2007)We report on the compilation of a comprehensive Bangla word list lexicon. The current list contains 80,969 words from the Standard Chalita Bhasha (SCB) vocabulary. The word list is currently being used by the BRAC University ... -
Research report on Bengla Verb and Noun Morphological analysis
(BRAC University, 2007)This report describes the inflection Bangla verb and noun morphology and rules, lexicons and grammar for Bangla morphological analysis. -
Optical character recognition for Bangla documents using HMM
(BRAC University, 2007)In this paper we have described an OCR program made for Bangla documents. This program uses HMM for the recognition process. The description of full OCR program is too large to present here. So, we have given emphasis on ... -
Integrating Bangla computing support in openoffice.org
(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 ...
