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Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing BRAC University
66, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
Phone: +88 (02) 8824051-4 Ext:4023
Fax: +88 (02) 8810383 crblp@bracu.ac.bd
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing
The Center for Research on Bangla Language
Processing (CRBLP) of BRAC University is currently conducting research
projects that deal with Bangla language processing. At present
the research team is working on Bangla Document authoring, Information Retrieval (Spelling checker, Search Engine), Optical Character Recognition, Speech Processing (Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition), Pronunciation Generator, Morphological Analysis, Parts of Speech Tagging, Syntax, Grammar Checker, Text Categorization, Language Modeling and many more interesting research areas.
Please download [CRBLP-summary] for detailed summary of CRBLP's research on Bangla Language Processing. This document has relevant publications section and download links for each projects.
S. M. Murtoza Habib attended and presented on "Developing Bangla text, speech and script resources: current status and challenges ahead" in Asian Language Resource Summit (http://www.tcllab.org/alrs/), organized by Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory (TCLLAB) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan), held at Evason Phuket & Six Senses Spa, Phuket, Thailand from March 20 - 21, 2009.
The Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP) at BRAC University launched the first official release of the Bangla language processing software packages for Text to Speech (TTS) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) named “Katha” and BanglaOCR respectively, on February 19, 2009 at 3 pm at BRAC University.
The chief guest at the launching ceremony, Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, Pro Vice Chancellor, BRAC University spoke at the occasion, along with Monsur Ahmed Choudhury, MD, Jatyo Protibondhi Unnayan Foundation (JPUF), Saiful Islam Khan, Project Officer, Joint project ‘Strengthening Government Integrated Education program for the Blind’ of the Shomaj Sheba Odibhoptor and Sight Savers International, and Dr. Mumit Khan, Professor, CSE, Head, CRBLP, BRAC University. Guests included Shamsur Nahar Ahmed, Sight Savers International and Rafiq Zaman, National Forum of the Organizations Working with the Disabled. [more]
Md. Abul Hasnat, Research Programmer at CRBLP, has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for the European Masters Program in LCT “Language and Communication Technology” (EM-LCT) and Graduate Master Course CIMET “Colors in Informatics and Media Technology”.
In March 2009, a monthly tech news magazines, The Monthly Computer Jagat covered the activities of CRBLP on Bangla language processing. [The Computer Jagat] [scanned copy]
On 9th march 2009, The Prothom-alo, a daily news paper briefly covered CRBLP's newly released software "Katha: Bangla Text To Speech" and "BanglaOCR".[The Prothom-alo] [scanned copy]
On 6th march 2009, The Daily Star, a daily news paper briefly covered CRBLP's newly released software "Katha: Bangla Text To Speech" and "BanglaOCR".[The Daily Star] [scanned copy]
IT Zone, an IT related weekly program of “ATN Bangla”, aired on 4th March 2009 which focused CRBLP launching ceremony of BanglaOCR and Bangla Text To Speech. The program included an interview of Dr. Mumit Khan, Head, CRBLP; and Firoj Alam, developer of “Katha: Bangla Text To Speech”.
On 20th February 2009, two daily news papers, The Daily Star and The New Age, covered CRBLP launching ceremony news. [The Daily Star] [scanned copy] [The New Age]
In February 2008, "The Daily Star", the most widely read English newspaper in Bangladesh, and a monthly tech-news magazine "The Monthly Computer Jagat" covered activities of CRBLP on Bangla language processing. [The Daily Starpdf] [Computer Jagat scanned copy]
The Global Information Society Watch (2007) report covered activities of CRBLP saying, "BRAC University now hosts the country's main localisation centre". ( read the original report: pages 114-115). [download]
In February 2007, two monthly tech news magazines, The Monthly Computer Jagat and The C-News, covered activities of CRBLP on Bangla language processing. [C-News scanned copy] [Computer Jagat scanned copy]
On December 1, 2006, Prothom-Alo, the most widely read Bangla newspaper, published a news item on the localization efforts of Windows Vista by CRBLP. It appeared as the main article in the "projonmo.com" section, a weekly IT section in the newspaper. [web] [scanned copy]
Protidin Computer, an IT related weekly program of Bangladesh Television (BTV), aired a program focused on the activities of CRBLP. The program included an interview of Dr. Mumit Khan, Head, CRBLP; a demonstration of a few demo softwares developed in CRBLP, e.g. Bangla spelling checker (Naushad UzZaman), Bangla search engine (Hammad Ali), Bangla pronunciation generator (Ayesha Binte Mosaddeque), Bangla morphological analyzer (Md. Zahurul Islam) & Bangla OCR (Md. Abul Hasnat and S. M. Murtoza Habib) and covered the interviews of Md. Abul Hasnat, S. M. Murtoza Habib & Firoj Alam on their experience of the PAN Localization Summer School (held in Pakistan), August 2006. [part1] [part2]
