In this paper, we formally introduce the problem of crossscript code-mixed question answering (QA) and we elaborate the corpus acquisition process and an evaluation strategy related to the said problem. Today social media platforms are flooded by millions of posts everyday on various topics. This paper emphasizes the use of such ever growing user generated content to serve as information collec...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...

Reproducible documents, interactive graphics, and the Internet enables computational researchers to communicate and share their research easily. A reproducible document offers a reader three basic commands when inspecting any computational result: The first command, view , displays the result inviting the reader to scrutinize it. The second command, build recomputes the result from a set of giv...

The abstract is to Recognition of handwritten Devanagari numerals has many applications especially in the field of postal automation, document processing and so on. Due to its vast applications, many researchers are actively working towards development of effective and efficient hand written character/numeral recognition. Devanagari script is widely used script in Indian sub-continent, also dev...

In this paper, we present an approach to measure the transliteration similarity of English-Hindi word pairs. Our approach has two components. First we propose a bi-directional mapping between one or more characters in the Devanagari script and one or more characters in the Roman script (pronounced as in English). This allows a given Hindi word written in Devanagari to be transliterated into the...

Compound character recognition of Devanagari Script (Marathi language) is one of the challenging tasks since the compound character is combination of one or more characters. These characters can be treated as fusion of two or more characters and hence these are complex in structure. Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit and Nepali are written with Devanagari script. All these languages have compound charact...

Handwritten Word Recognition is an important problem of Pattern Recognition. Online handwritten recognition system for Devanagari words is still in developing stage and becoming challenging due to the large complexity involvement. In India, more than 300 million people use Devanagari script for documentation. There has been a significant improvement in the research related to the recognition of...

OBJECTIVES To investigate what proportion of patients attending a rheumatology unit in Birmingham, UK, require interpretation services and to assess the use of an Asian language telephone helpline we have established for those who find it easier to communicate in Punjabi, Urdu or Hindi than in English. METHODS Our patients' requirement for interpretation services and their ability to read the...