Hindi and Urdu share a grammar and a basic vocabulary, but are often mutually unintelligible because they use different words in higher registers and sometimes even in quite ordinary situations. We report computational translation evidence of this unusual relationship (it differs from the usual pattern, that related languages share the advanced vocabulary and differ in the basics). We took a GF...

This work presents the development of the URDU.KON-TB treebank, its annotation evaluation & guidelines and the construction of the Urdu parser for a South Asian language Urdu. Urdu is comparatively an under-resourced language and the development of a reliable treebank and a parser will have significant impact on the state-of-the-art for automatic Urdu language processing. The work includes the ...

In this paper, we present a generic Optical Character Recognition system for Arabic script languages called Nabocr. Nabocr uses OCR approaches specific for Arabic script recognition. Performing recognition on Arabic script text is relatively more difficult than Latin text due to the nature of Arabic script, which is cursive and context sensitive. Moreover, Arabic script has different writing st...

OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) for use in Urdu-speaking population. METHODS The original Epworth Sleepiness Scale was translated into the Urdu version (ESS-Ur) in three phases - translation and back-translation; committee-based translation; and testing in bilingual individuals. The final was subsequently tested on 89 healthy bilingual subjects between F...

The main aim of this work is to perform sentiment analysis on Urdu blog data. We use the method of structural correspondence learning (SCL) to transfer sentiment analysis learning from Urdu newswire data to Urdu blog data. The pivots needed to transfer learning from newswire domain to blog domain is not trivial as Urdu blog data, unlike newswire data is written in Latin script and exhibits code...

This study aimed at developing an Urdu version of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI) for use with Pakistani adolescents and young adults. For this purpose, the English BSI was translated into Urdu and tested for psychometric properties. The analyses were carried out with data from a sample of 904 adolescents and young adults from eight major cities of Pakistan. The Cronbach's alpha of .7...

urdu literature has provided an outstanding treasure by using all persian literary genres presented in both verse and prose. among all literary genres of poetry elegy is the kind which some of the scholars and critics of the subcontinent consider as an independent genre from arabic and persian literature. there is no doubt that mourning and lamenting for the dead has always been part of every n...

General perception about the colonial state to have impinged only upon the political and economic aspects of the colony is not the whole truth. The author scrutinizes the question of identity and the process of transformation it went through primarily because of the preference accorded to Urdu over the native Punjabi. He therefore interrogates Partha Chatterjee’s postulate of ‘inner domain’ or ...

From its advent, computer science is facing language-based problems; as English is considered being the most widely used communication language. Arabic Scripted Languages (ASLs) including Urdu have been considered less in this aspect. To rectify this problem, it is decided to build up the idea of interface designing for Arabic Scripted Language (ASL). All the algorithms and methods are used to ...

along with the beginning of novel and short story writing in persian and urdu languages various literary movements like realism, social realism and surrealism overshadowed the contemporary literature of iran and pakistan. modern prose of persian and urdu consists of great assets from novels and short stories, and their considerable background . during various periods of the growth and prosperit...