This study compares and contrasts the usage of /and/ /aur/ within framework Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH). Data on Urdu conjunctions appearing in various structures were obtained from an unpublished research paper Conversation Analysis, while data English several past studies. Hundred Graduating students (twenty five each institution) different Higher Education Institutions Kotli AJ&amp...

The authorship identification task aims at identifying the original author of an anonymous text sample from a set candidate authors. It has several application domains such as digital forensics and information retrieval. These are not limited to specific language. However, most studies focused on English attention been paid Urdu. existing Urdu solutions drop accuracy number training samples per...

In this paper we describe a currently underway treebanking effort for Urdu-a South Asian language. The treebank is built from a newspaper corpus and uses a Karaka based grammatical framework inspired by Paninian grammatical theory. Thus far 3366 sentences (0.1M words) have been annotated with the linguistic information at morpho-syntactic (morphological, part-of-speech and chunk information) an...

The inclusion of South Asian languages in multilingual grammar development projects that were initially based on European languages has resulted in a number of interesting extensions to those projects. Butt and King (2002) report on the inclusion of Urdu in the Parallel Grammar Project (ParGram; Butt et al. (1999, 2002)) with respect to case and complex predicates. In this paper, we focus on a ...

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...

Baseline detection is one of the most important step in character recognition and has direct influence on recognition result. Due to the complexity of the Urdu scripts based languages, handwritten character recognition is a very difficult task as compared to other languages. Baseline detection is one of the main issue and basic step of mostly preprocessing operations that is, normalization, ske...

The present study was carried out to analyze the gender differences among diabetic patients on marital satisfaction and social relations. Total 200 diabetic patients (100 males and 100 females), were selected by using convenient sampling method and were approached from different private and public hospitals from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Comprehensive Marital Satisfaction Scale (Blum & Mehrabian, 1...