In many cases in SMT we want to allow specialized modules to propose translation fragments to the decoder and allow them to compete with translations contained in the phrase table. Transliteration is one module that may produce such specialized output. In this paper, as an example, we build a specialized Urdu transliteration module and integrate its output into an Urdu–English MT system. The mo...

Fahad Hanif Khan1*, Kamal Muhammad Yousuf2 and Mishraz Shaikh3 1Department of General Surgery, Civil Hospital, Baba-e-Urdu Road, Karachi, Pakistan 2Department of Vascular Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan 3Department of General Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan *Corresponding author: Fahad Hanif Khan, Department of General Surgery, Civil Hospital, ...

Text reuse is the act of borrowing text from existing documents to create new texts. Freely available and easily accessible large online repositories are not only making reuse of text more common in society but also harder to detect. A major hindrance in the development and evaluation of existing/new mono-lingual text reuse detection methods, especially for South Asian languages, is the unavail...

One goal common to human sentence processing theories is to develop a crosslinguistically applicable account of human parsing processes. There is much empirical evidence consistent with such theories, based on experiments involving diverse languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, and German, among others. However, processing facts for many other languages are yet to be determined, an...

This paper introduces an isolated and unique ancient language Burushaski, spoken in Hunza, Nagar, Yasin and parts of Gilgit in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It explains the working mechanism of Multi Language Text Editor for Urdu and Burushaski. It is developed under the use of ISO/IEC 10646 Unicode standards for Urdu and Burushaski open-type fonts. It gives an ample opportunity to this regio...

Urdu is a challenging language because of, first, its Perso-Arabic script and second, its morphological system having inherent grammatical forms and vocabulary of Arabic, Persian and the native languages of South Asia. This paper describes an implementation of the Urdu language as a software API, and we deal with orthography, morphology and the extraction of the lexicon. The morphology is imple...

Social networks have recently emerged as the fastest and very effective medium to express news updates, trends and expression of personal views. There have been several studies to perform detailed sentiment analysis on such data in most of the developed languages. However, Urdu lacked any such study despite being spoken by around 30 Million people around the globe and used in regions with faste...

URDU NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM USING CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD Muhammad Kamran Malik, Syed Mansoor Sarwar Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan Corresponding Author: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for the Urdu language based on Conditional Random Field (CRF) is des...

In many cases in SMT we want to allow specialized modules to propose translation fragments to the decoder and allow them to compete with translations contained in the phrase table. Transliteration is one module that may produce such specialized output. In this paper, as an example, we build a specialized Urdu transliteration module and integrate its output into an Urdu–English MT system. The mo...

Urdu is a distinct literary language began to develop in India during Mughal empire. Lots of people read, write and speak, this language in Indian subcontinent. This brief article will shed light on the seven rare books in Urdu compiled and published in the period from 19th century to the first half of the current century. Some books may not have high value but the struggle of the scholars, is ...