We describe a small freely available computer script to extract ‘real world’ sequence descriptions from the BLASTX results from sequences generated by the stand-alone ncbi­blast­2.2.26 suite of tools (available from NCBI/GenBank). Our Python (2.7) script is intended to make name extraction feasible for thousands, of hundreds of thousands, of sequences such as that generated by BLASTX analysis o...

Determination of script type of document image is a complex real life problem for a multi-script country like India, where 23 official languages (including English) are present and 13 different scripts are used to write them. Including English and Roman those count become 23 and 13 respectively. The problem becomes more challenging when handwritten documents are considered. In this paper an app...

We introduce a generic Language Independent Framework for Linguistic Code Switch Point Detection. The system uses the word length, character level (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)-grams and word level unigram language models to train a conditional random fields (CRF) model for classifying input words into various languages. We test our proposed framework and compare it to the state-of-theart published syste...

Urdu language is written in Arabic script. In this script, the consonantal context is clearly represented, but the vocalic sounds are represented (mostly) by marks or diacritics, which are optional and normally not written. Readers can guess the diacritics and thus can pronounce words correctly, based on their knowledge of the language. But un-diacritized Urdu text creates ambiguity for novice ...

The script concordance test is a relatively new format of written assessment that is used to assess higher-order clinical reasoning and data interpretation skills in medicine. Candidates are presented with a clinical scenario, followed by the reveal of a new piece of information. The candidates are then asked to assess whether this additional information increases or decreases the probability o...

Arabic script writing is typically underspecified for short vowels and other mark up, referred to as diacritics. Apart from the lexical ambiguity found in words, similar to that exhibited in other languages, the lack of diacritics in written Arabic script adds another layer of ambiguity which is an artifact of the orthography. Diacritization of written text has a significant impact on Arabic NL...