The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...

Molana Hakim Muhammad Akhter was born in 1923 village Atheha the District of Pratapgarh province Uter Pardesh (UP) India. He got his religious education from saint Abdul Ghani Pholpuri Madarasa Bait-ul-Aloom which is located at Sarai Meer district Azam Ghar India and after this he, Medical Education Tibbia College Allahabad. a Sufi, great scholar, acknowledged writer kind reformer. founder Sils...

Urdu is spoken by more than 100 million speakers. This paper summarizes the corpus and lexical resources being developed for Urdu by the CRULP, in Pakistan.

Composing Urdu is a thorny task on touch-screen devices particularly handheld modern devices such as smart phones and PDAs. Design and development of optimal keypad for Urdu composing is complicated due to its relatively large letter-set. Conventional QWERTY replica keypad has migrated from computers to small screen devices. The multitap T9 keypads are also in use. These have raised grave issue...

1. Abstract While part-of-speech tagging is an established technology for Western European languages such as English or Spanish, extending the technique to Urdu presents a range of interesting issues. There are some problems associated with the writing system, e.g. the problems of locating token boundaries in the Urdu version of the Arabic script. However, there are also linguistic issues. Litt...

Language resources, such as corpora, are important for various natural language processing tasks. Urdu has millions of speakers around the world but it is under-resourced in terms of standard evaluation resources. This paper reports the construction of a benchmark corpus for Urdu summaries (abstracts) to facilitate the development and evaluation of single document summarization systems for Urdu...

This paper presents Rule based Urdu Stemmer. In this technique rules are applied to remove suffix and prefix from the inflected words. Urdu is well spoken language all over the world but less work has been done on Urdu stemming. Stemmer helps us to find the root of the inflected word. Various possibilities of inflected words like ںو (vao+noon-gunna), ے (badi-ye), ںای (choti-ye+alif+noon-gunna) ...

This paper provides a comparative lexical survey of Urdu and French languages in a historical context. Especially, it presents a detailed etymological analysis of selected Urdu and French words to demonstrate their common ancestral origin. Despite the fact that Urdu and French are genetically related languages, their comparative study is one of the more poorly studied areas till now. This study...

The raw Urdu corpus comprises of irregular and large sentences which need to be properly segmented in order to make them useful in Natural Language Engineering (NLE). This makes the Compound Sentences Segmentation (CSS) timely and vital research topic. The existing online text processing tools are developed mostly for computationally developed languages such as English, Japanese and Spanish etc...

Building robust text recognition systems for languages with cursive scripts like Urdu has always been challenging. Intricacies of the script and the absence of ample annotated data further act as adversaries to this task. We demonstrate the effectiveness of an end-to-end trainable hybrid CNN-RNN architecture in recognizing Urdu text from printed documents, typically known as Urdu OCR. The solut...