Prepared by: Shammur Absar Chowdhury, CRBLP

 Working on Bangla Language Processing since 2004 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Mumit Khan.  Fund: PAN localization, IDRC, Canada, Microsoft, USA and Prothom Alo,Bangladesh.  One and only established Bangla language research center in Bangladesh.

 Motivation of open source Academic  Offered course on language processing (CSE 431: Natural Language Processing, offered at Spring 2006, Spring 2007 and Summer 2009 in BRACU)  Thesis on NLP  Summer Internship

 Document Authoring  Information Retrieval  Optical Character Recognition  Speech Processing (TTS, ASR)  NLP (Morphology, POS Tagging, Syntax, Spell checking, wordnet, MT …)  Language resource development

 Speech synthesis (TTS)  Automatic Speech Recognition  Speech Corpus  Lexicon  Screen Reader

 Document Authoring, BanglaPad  Pata, English to Bangla Transliteration  Bangla Speller Sandbox: Bangla Phonetic Speller (Puspa)  Search Engine  Bangla Automated Pronunciation Generator  Morphological Analyzer  Bangla POS tagging  Bangla Grammar Checker  Bangla Text categorization  Corpus analysis  ASCII to Unicode Converter  Language Modeling & n-Gram  Text Summerization  OCR (Optical Character Recongnition)  Wordnet  Parallel Corpus for MT

 Publications Total 53 papers published from here  Product 8 products launched with Microsoft Vista and Office-2007 localization. 1 product launched with collaborating with Prothom Alo Capacity Building

2004: (3 papers)  ICCIT 2004 (Bangladesh) 2005: (7 papers)  IASTED CI 2005 (Canada)  IEEE NLP KE 2005 (China)  IEE Mobility 2005 (China)  ICCIT 2005 (Bangladesh)  BU Journal, BRAC University  Undergraduate Thesis

2006: (24 papers)  ICCPB 2006 (Bangladesh)  ICCIT 2006 (Bangladesh)  CISSE 2006 (Online, U.S.A)  Undergraduate Thesis: : (11 papers)  ICON 2007 (India)  DCCA 2007 (Jordan)  EWB 2007 (Abu Dhabi)  ICCIT 2007 (Bangladesh)  SNLP 2007 (Thailand)  CISSE 2007 (Online, U.S.A)

2008: (3 papers) ICON 2008 (India)  CISSE 2008 (Online, U.S.A)  SLTU 2008 (Vietnam) 2009: (4 papers)  CLT09 (Pakistan) 2010: (1 paper) SLTU'10 (Malaysia) 2011: (2 Paper) HLTD 2011(Egypt)

 BanglaPad  Bangla Speller  BanglaOCR, version 0.7  CRBLPConverter, version 1.1  “Katha” Bangla Text to Speech, version 1.0 Beta  E2B digital dictionary  Terminology system ( পরিভাষা )  Speech corpus  Pronunciation dictionary  Microsoft Vista and Office-2007 localization.

Sajib Das Gupta PhD, UCLA, USA Naushad Uz Zaman PhD, University of Rochester, USA Zahurul Islam, M.Sc, Netherland, EM-LCT Scholarship Nafid Haque M.Sc, Malta, EM-LCT Scholarship

M. Hammad Ali M.Sc, UBC, Canada. Md. Abul Hasnat M.Sc, EM-LCT and CIMET Scholarship Naira Khan PhD, Stanford, USA Firoj Alam M.Sc Uof Trento, Italy S. M. Murtoza Habib M.Sc Uof Trento, Italy

 Training on NLP, Cambodia, 2005  Summer School on NLP, Pakistan,  Summer School, ADD2, Bangkok, 2007  Summer School, ADD3, Bangkok, 2008  Summer School, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2008  Summer School, ADD4, Bangkok, 2009  Summer School, ADD5, Bangkok, 2010

 CRULP, Pakistan.  NECTEC, Thailand.  IIT, India.  PAN Localization network, which is operating in ten countries.  DU Linguistics department.

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