We propose a new kind of event structure representation for computational linguistics, based on the theoretical framework of FirstPhase Syntax (Ramchand, 2008). We show that the approach not only gives a theoretically well-motivated set of subevents and related semantic roles, it also posits the levels of representation needed for analyzing a linguistic phenomenon that has repeatedly caused pro...

This paper describes a first approach to a computational semantic analyzer for Urdu on the basis of the deep syntactic analysis done by the Urdu grammar ParGram. Apart from the semantic construction, external lexical resources such as an Urdu WordNet and a preliminary VerbNet style resource for Urdu are developed and connected to the semantic analyzer. These resources allow for a deeper level o...

The present study was aimed to achieve two objectives: (a) translate and adapt the English version of Planned Happenstance Career Inventory (PHCI) in Urdu language, (b) establish its psychometric properties with respect Pakistani culture. divided into phases. Phase I consisted forward backward translation scale initial statistical analysis, whereas II focused on establishing properties. Results...

A text to speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer based system that should be able to read any text aloud. The TTS systems are commercially available in English, and in some of the Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, and Urdu etc. Till now, the text to speech system had not been developed for Konkani language. This is the first TTS system developed for the Konkani ( Goan ) language. Concatenatio...

Arabic script character recognition is challenging task due to complexity of the script and huge number of ligatures. We present a method for the development of multilingual Arabic script OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and lexicon reduction for Arabic Script and its derivative languages. The objective of the proposed method is to overcome the large dataset Urdu and similar scripts by using...

Convincing a customer is always considered as a challenging task in every business. But when it comes to online business, this task becomes even more difficult. Online retailers try everything possible to gain the trust of the customer. One of the solutions is to provide an area for existing users to leave their comments. This service can effectively develop the trust of the customer however no...

This study seeks to determine the efficacy and utility of teaching writing skills through short stories third-semester postgraduate students whose native language instruction is Urdu at Maulana Azad National University in Hyderabad, India. article investigates primarily extent which selected English are useful effective for skills. Due their Urdu-influenced origins, it a fact that majority our ...

In this paper, we focus on improving part-of-speech (POS) tagging for Urdu by using existing tools and data for the language. In our experiments, we use Humayoun’s morphological analyzer, the POS tagging module of an Urdu Shallow Parser and our own SVM Tool tagger trained on CRULP manually annotated data. We convert the output of the taggers to a common format and more importantly unify their t...

This paper describes Meteor 1.3, our submission to the 2011 EMNLP Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation automatic evaluation metric tasks. New metric features include improved text normalization, higher-precision paraphrase matching, and discrimination between content and function words. We include Ranking and Adequacy versions of the metric shown to have high correlation with human judgm...