Centre for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP): Recent submissions

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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • Morphological analysis of inflecting compound words in Bangla 

      Dasgupta, Sajib; Khan, Naira; Sarkar, Asif Iqbal; Pavel, Dewan Shahriar Hossain; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2005)
      The addition of inflectional suffixes in Bangla com-pound words is fairly complex. A compound is a word that is formed by two or more different words acting as a single entity. One of the key distinguishing features of ...

    • Morphological parsing of Bangla wods using PC-KIMMO 

      Dasgupta, Sajib; Khan,Mumit (BRAC University, 2004)
      This paper describes Morphological parsing of Bangla words using PC-KIMMO, based on Kimmo Koskeniemil's model of two-level Morphology. There are three sections in the PC-KIMMO: rules section lexicon section and grammar ...

    • Localization birdging the digital divide 

      Haque, Nafid (BRAC University, 2007)
      In this paper, a proposal has been given to make an equitable access of education and technology among the people of the underdeveloped and developing countries of the world. Here a concept called localization has been ...

    • Isolated and continuous bangla speech recognition: implementation, performance and application perspective 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Mowla, Jabir; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      Research on automatic speech recognition has been approach progressively since 1930 and the major advances are since 1980 with the introduction of the statistical modeling of speech with the key technology Hidden Markov ...

    • 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 ...

    • Rule based segmentation of lower modifiers in complex Bangla scripts 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2009)
      Segmentation is the most challenging part of Bangla optical character recognition (OCR). To solve the problems of joining errors, several algorithms have been proposed in the literature, with varying degrees of accuracy. ...

    • 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. ...

    • A light weight stemmer for Bengali and its use in spelling checker 

      Islam, Md. Zahurul; Uddin, Md. Nizam; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2007)
      Stemming is an operation that splits a word into the constituent root part and affix without doing complete morphological analysis. It is used to improve the performance of spelling checkers and information retrieval ...

    • 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 ...

    • Skew angle detection of bangla script using radon transform 

      Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Noor, Nawsher Ahamed; Khan, Mumit (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Teaching compiler development to undergraduates using a template based approach 

      Islam, Md Zahurul; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2005)
      Compiler Design remains one of the most dreaded courses in any undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, due in part to the complexity and the breadth of the material covered in a typical 14-15 week semester time frame. ...

    • T12: an advanced text input system with phonetic support for mobile devices 

      Naushad UzZaman, Khan Mumit (BRAC University, 2005)
      The popular T9 text input system for mobile devices uses a predictive dictionary-based disambiguation scheme, enabling a user to type in commonly-used words with low overhead. We present a new text input system called ...

    • 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 ...