One goal common to human sentence processing theories is to develop a crosslinguistically applicable account of human parsing processes. There is much empirical evidence consistent with such theories, based on experiments involving diverse languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, and German, among others. However, processing facts for many other languages are yet to be determined, an...

Word stemming is one of the most significant factors that affect the performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) application such as Information Retrieval (IR) system, part of speech tagging, machine translation system and syntactic parsing. Urdu language raises several challenges to NLP largely due to its rich morphology. In Urdu language, stemming process is different as compared to th...

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...

In South-Asian languages such as Hindi and Urdu, action verbs having compound constructions and serial verbs constructions pose serious problems for natural language processing and other linguistic tasks. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 51, 500, 000 speakers in India. Action verbs that occur spontaneously in day-to-day communication are highly ambiguous in nature semantically and as a ...

OBJECTIVE Patient education is a key element in the treatment of diabetes. Assessment of diabetes knowledge is important for optimum treatment. For the assessment of diabetes knowledge, validated tool is essential. None of such validated tool is available in Urdu language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and examine the psychometric properties of the 24-item Urdu version of Di...

This paper reports about the development of a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for South and South East Asian languages, particularly for Bengali, Hindi, Telugu, Oriya and Urdu as part of the IJCNLP-08 NER Shared Task. We have used the statistical Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). The system makes use of the different contextual information of the words along with the variety of features t...

The lack of a standardized sign language, and the inability to communicate with hearing community through are two major issues confronting Pakistan's deaf dumb society. In this research, we have proposed an approach help eradicate one issues. Now, using framework, can normal people. purpose work is reduce struggles hearing-impaired people in Pakistan. A Kinect-based Pakistan language (PSL) Urdu...

Regardless of language, the standard character set for text messages (SMS) and many other social media platforms is the Roman alphabet. There are romanization conventions for some character sets, but they are used inconsistently in informal text, such as SMS. In this work, we convert informal, romanized Urdu messages into the native Arabic script and normalize non-standard SMS language. Doing s...

Paraphrase plagiarism is a significant and widespread problem and research shows that it is hard to detect. Several methods and automatic systems have been proposed to deal with it. However, evaluation and comparison of such solutions is not possible because of the unavailability of benchmark corpora with manual examples of paraphrase plagiarism. To deal with this issue, we present the novel de...