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    • 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 ...
    • 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 script recognition support in tesseract OCR 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Chowdhury, Muttakinur Rahman; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2009)
      Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate free software OCR engines currently available. It was originally developed by Hewlett-Packard from 1985 until 1995, and is currently maintained by Google. At present, Tesseract ...
    • 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 ...
    • JKimmo: A Multilingual computational mophology frame work for PC-KIMMO 

      Islam, Md. Zahurul; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      Morphological analysis is of fundamental interest in computational linguistics and language processing. While there are established morphological analyzers for mostly Western and a few other languages using localized ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Minimally segmenting performance Bangla optical character recognition using Kohonen network 

      Shatil, Adnan Mohammad Shoeb; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper presents a method to use Kohonen neural network based classifier in Bangla Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, providing much higher performance than the traditional neural network based ones. It describes ...
    • 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 ...
    • N-gram based statistical grammar checker for Bangla and English 

      Alam, Md. Jahangir; UzZaman, Naushad; Khan, Mumit (Center for research on Bangla language processing (CRBLP), BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper describes a statistical grammar checker, which considers the n-gram based analysis of words and POS tags to decide whether the sentence is grammatically correct or not. We employed this technique for both Bangla ...
    • A proposed automated extraction procedure of Bangla text for corpus creation in unicode 

      Pavel, Dewan Shahriar Hossain; Sarkar, Asif Iqbal; Khan, Mumit (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 ...
    • Rule based automated pronunciation generator 

      Mosaddeque, Ayesha Binte; UzZaman, Naushad; Khan, Mumit (BRAC University, 2006)
      This paper presents a rule based ronunciation generator for Bangla words. It takes a word and finds the pronunciations for the graphemes of the word. A grapheme is a unit in writing that cannot be analyzed into smaller ...
    • 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. ...
    • Segmentation free Bangla OCR using HMM: Training and recognition 

      Hasnat, Md. Abul; Habib, S. M. Murtoza; Khan, Mumit (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...