CRBLP staff members supervise BRAC University CSE students interested in conducting research in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), specifically on Bangla Language Processing.

The output of these student research projects are available in the form of theses, independent studies and also in the form of student project outputs of the NLP course (CSE 431, offered in Spring 2006). Some software prototypes of the research work are available as open-source projects.

THESES

2008

Muttakinur Rahman Chowdhury (Shouro), "Integration of Bangla script recognition support in OCRopus", Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, August 2008. Supervisor: Mumit Khan and Md. Abul Hasnat. [Thesis paper] [Presentation]

Rabia Sultana Ummi and Fahmina Huda, "Developing Language Resources for English/Bangla Machine Translation", Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science & Engineering), BRAC University, August 2008. Supervisor: Mumit Khan. [Thesis paper] [Presentation]

Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, "Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation", Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science & Engineering), BRAC University, August 2008. Supervisor: Mumit Khan. [Thesis paper]

2006

Fahim Muhammad Hasan, Comparison of different POS Tagging Techniques for South Asian Languages, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, December 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan and Naushad UzZaman.

Ayesha Binte Mosaddeque, M. Hammad Ali and Nafid Haque, Design of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammer for Bangla, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, December 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Tofazzal Rownok, Mobile messaging using Bangla, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, January 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Munirul Mansur, Analysis of n-gram based text categorization for Bangla in a newspaper corpus, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, August 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Yeasir Arafat, Analysis and Observations From a Bangla news corpus, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, August 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Firoj Alam and Promila Kanti Nath, Bangla Text to Speech using Festival, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science & Engineering), BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan. [Thesis paper] [Presentation]

Shoeb Satil, Optical Character Recognition using the Kohonen network, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan. OCR using Kohonen network
[Download KohonenOCR]

A K M Mahmudul Hoque, Bangla Speech Recognition, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Nawsher Ahmed Noor and Murtoza Habib, Bangla Optical Character Recognition, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, January 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Naushad UzZaman, Phonetic Encoding for Bangla and its Application to Spelling Checker, Name Searching, Transliteration and Cross Language Information Retrieval, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, May 2005. [paper] [presentation] [demo: speller, transliteration] Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

2005

Naushad UzZaman, Phonetic Encoding for Bangla and its Application to Spelling Checker, Name Searching, Transliteration and Cross Language Information Retrieval, Undergraduate Thesis (Computer Science), BRAC University, May 2005. [paper] [presentation]

INDEPENDENT STUDIES

Md. Nizam Uddin, A Study on Text Summarization Techniques and an Approach for Bangla Text Summarization, Independent Study, Computer Science, BRAC University, December 2006, Supervisor: Md. Zahurul Islam, Mumit Khan.

Firoj Alam, Voice Creation for Speech Synthesis, Independent Study, Computer Science, BRAC University, May 2006, Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Md. Abul Hasnat, Training and Recognition Mechanism of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Bangla Character using Hidden Markov Model, Independent Study, Computer Science, BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Mumit Khan.

Nafid Haque, Web based English-to-Bangla Transliteration with Lexicon support, Independent Study, Computer Science, BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Ayesha Binte Mosaddeque, Web based Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) Conversion, Independent Study, Computer Science, BRAC University, May 2006. Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

NLP COURSE PROJECTS

Note: These Open Source student research projects, completed over a span of one month as a part of the NLP course, can be used freely by interested people with acknowledgement.

Fahim Muhammad Hasan and M. Hammad Ali, Automated Part Of Speech Tagger for Bangla, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Ayesha Binte Mosaddeque and Nafid Haque, Context-Free Grammar for Bangla, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources] Supervisor: Arnab Zaheen, Naira Khan, Mumit Khan.

Md. Tarek Habib, Md. Jahangir Alam and Rajib Rahman, Forward, Backward & Forward vs Backward N-gram Analysis, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Snigdha Saha, Bangla Text Dialog System, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [online demo: male robot - abdul; female robot - sakhina] [report] [download] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Yeasir Arafat, Compilation and analysis of Prothom-alo corpus, and the methodology to create a balanced Bangla corpus, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources: analysis tools] [output: frequency output] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Nizam Uddin and Fuad Hussain, Stemming for Bangla, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources] Supervisor: Zahurul Islam , Mumit Khan.

M. Abdur Rahman and Fahim Tawfique Chowdhury, Understanding GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) - GATE User Manual For Beginners, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [demo video: vdo 1 and vdo 2] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.

Mahmood Ishtiyaq Kamal, Michael Sumon Mollick and Salman Zaman, Morphological Analysis for Bangla, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources] Supervisor: Zahurul Islam , Mumit Khan.

Munirul Mansur, Implement and analyze ngram based text categorization for Bangla, Research Project, Natural Language Processing (CSE 431), Computer Science, BRAC University, Spring 2006. [report] [resources] Supervisor: Naushad UzZaman, Mumit Khan.