Speaker independent, spontaneous and continuous speech recognition system (ASR) can be integrated to other technologies like mobile to create an interface between technology and illiterate people so that they can use modern technologies. One of the major hurdles in such ASR is unacceptable word error rate. The paper explores the possibility of analyzing the Urdu speech corpus based on recogniti...

Web Search Engines are best gifts to the mankind by Information and Communication Technologies. Without the search engines it would have been almost impossible to make the efficient access of the information available on the web today. They play a very vital role in the accessibility and usability of the internet based information systems. As the internet users are increasing day by day so is t...

(EPQ)1 is a self-report measure that operationalises Eysenck's model of personality.2 In addition to the original English language version,1there now exists a large number of foreign language translations,3,4 including Urdu.5,6 For both clinicians and researchers, the administration of 90 items may be prohibitive due to time or space constraints. Therefore a number of shorter measures,derived f...

The statistical machine translation approach is highly popular in automatic translation research area and promising approach to yield good accuracy. Efforts have been made to develop Urdu to Punjabi statistical machine translation system. The system is based on an incremental training approach to train the statistical model. In place of the parallel sentences corpus has manually mapped phrases ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate what proportion of patients attending a rheumatology unit in Birmingham, UK, require interpretation services and to assess the use of an Asian language telephone helpline we have established for those who find it easier to communicate in Punjabi, Urdu or Hindi than in English. METHODS Our patients' requirement for interpretation services and their ability to read the...

Language learning involves linguistic and societal factors that interact to facilitate or hinder second language learning. Different contextual provide an opportunity examine understand the similarities differences occur among bilingual children who learn same first (L1) (L2) in different countries contexts. This paper explored role of context, learners’ profiles Urdu–English bilinguals Canada ...