Shahid Siddiq

• National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

This paper presents discussion of internal structure of Noun Phrase (NP) in Urdu. It also proposes a computational grammar using LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) formalism.

This paper discusses the behavior of `kaa' and suggests the selection of Part of Speech (POS) on the basis of linguistic evidence. It also suggests some tests that can be used for correct classification of `kaa'. The selection of correct POS is important for computational processing, including parsing, generation, and identification of grammatical...

In this work, chunking is used to mark the noun phrases of Urdu sentences. The approach used in this work is hybrid that combines statistical method and hand crafted rules. The statistical model used in this work is HMM along with IOB chunk annotation. From a POS tagged corpus of 100,000 words, around 90,000 word tokens are used for training and 10...

In this paper we share the efforts for development of a parallel corpus for statistical machine translation for English text into Urdu. There are certain issues faced during this effort, which are shared and discussed.

Ubiquitous Computing (UC) is an emerging technology of sharing the information by using large collection of computing devices. Sharing of information is in terms of availability of information at every time, every where and in invisible form. In Ubiquitous computing power of desktop paradigm is distributed to every day electronic devices in an invi...