Analysis of and observations from a Bangla News Corpus

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2006
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BRAC University
Author
Majumder, Khair Md. Yasir Arafat
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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/616
Abstract
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 corpus and also present our observation of atypical behavior of Zipf’s curve for Prothom-Alo corpus.
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Bangla language processing
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Includes bibliographical references (page 19).
Department
Center for Research on Bangla language processing (CRBLP), BRAC University
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