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Bangla is a language spoken by approximately 240 million native speakers and around 300 million people worldwide. Despite being the 5th largest spoken language in the world, Bangla is still a "low-resource" language, and existing pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Abdullah Khan Zehady , Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Naymul Islam , Safi Al Mamun , Santu Karmaker

Today all kind of information is getting digitized and along with all this digitization, the huge archive of various kinds of documents is being digitized too. We know that, Optical Character Recognition is the method through which,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Md. Fahad Hasan , Tasmin Afroz , Sabir Ismail , Md. Saiful Islam

Bangla is the seventh most spoken language by a total number of speakers in the world, and yet the development of an automated grammar checker in this language is an understudied problem. Bangla grammatical error detection is a task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Shayekh Bin Islam , Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir , Sihat Afnan

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a topic of interest for many years. It is defined as the process of digitizing a document image into its constituent characters. Despite decades of intense research, developing OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam , Nazia Noor

At present, recognition of the Bangla handwriting compound character has been an essential issue for many years. In recent years there have been application-based researches in machine learning, and deep learning, which is gained interest,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jannatul Ferdous , Suvrajit Karmaker , A K M Shahariar Azad Rabby , Syed Akhter Hossain

This article presents a Bangla handwriting dataset named BanglaWriting that contains single-page handwritings of 260 individuals of different personalities and ages. Each page includes bounding-boxes that bounds each word, along with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 M. F. Mridha , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. Ameer Ali , Mazedul Islam Emon , Muhammad Mohsin Kabir

Bangla handwriting recognition is becoming a very important issue nowadays. It is potentially a very important task specially for Bangla speaking population of Bangladesh and West Bengal. By keeping that in our mind we are introducing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mithun Biswas , Rafiqul Islam , Gautam Kumar Shom , Md Shopon , Nabeel Mohammed , Sifat Momen , Md Anowarul Abedin

We describe a Context Free Grammar (CFG) for Bangla language and hence we propose a Bangla parser based on the grammar. Our approach is very much general to apply in Bangla Sentences and the method is well accepted for parsing a language of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-01-11 K. M. Azharul Hasan , Al-Mahmud , Amit Mondal , Amit Saha

This paper presents an optimal Bangla Keyboard Layout, which distributes the load equally on both hands so that maximizing the ease and minimizing the effort. Bangla alphabet has a large number of letters, for this it is difficult to type…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Md. Hijbul Alam , Abdul Kadar Muhammad Masum , Md. Mahadi Hassan

In spite of advances in object recognition technology, Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition (HBCR) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many ambiguous handwritten characters and excessively cursive Bangla handwritings. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Md Zahangir Alom , Peheding Sidike , Mahmudul Hasan , Tark M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

A large number of publications are available for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Significant researches, as well as articles are present for the Latin, Chinese and Japanese scripts. Arabic script is also one of mature script from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Dil Nawaz Hakro , A. Z. Talib , Zeeshan Bhatti , G. N. Moja

In the domain of Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) interpretation, prior approaches often imposed a burden on users, requiring them to spell words without hidden characters, which were subsequently corrected using Bangla grammar rules due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Naimul Haque , Meraj Serker , Tariq Bin Bashar

This work presents BanglaNLG, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating natural language generation (NLG) models in Bangla, a widely spoken yet low-resource language. We aggregate six challenging conditional text generation tasks under the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Abhik Bhattacharjee , Tahmid Hasan , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Rifat Shahriyar

Bangla, a language spoken by over 300 million native speakers and ranked as the sixth most spoken language worldwide, presents unique challenges in natural language processing (NLP) due to its complex morphological characteristics and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Souvika Sarkar , Md. Najib Hasan , Santu Karmaker

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from Latin to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due to a sharp contrast between their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Samiul Alam , Tahsin Reasat , Asif Shahriyar Sushmit , Sadi Mohammad Siddiquee , Fuad Rahman , Mahady Hasan , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Benjamin Kiessling , Gennady Kurin , Matthew Thomas Miller , Kader Smail

Bangla is the sixth most widely spoken language globally, with approximately 234 million native speakers. However, progress in open-source Bangla machine translation remains limited. Most online resources are in English and often remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ayon Roy , Risat Rahaman , Sadat Shibly , Udoy Saha Joy , Abdulla Al Kafi , Farig Yousuf Sadeque

Active languages such as Bangla (or Bengali) evolve over time due to a variety of social, cultural, economic, and political issues. In this paper, we analyze the change in the written form of the modern phase of Bangla quantitatively in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Paheli Bhattacharya , Arnab Bhattacharya

The Bangla language is the seventh most spoken language, with 265 million native and non-native speakers worldwide. However, English is the predominant language for online resources and technical knowledge, journals, and documentation.…

Although over 300M around the world speak Bangla, scant work has been done in improving Bangla voice-to-text transcription due to Bangla being a low-resource language. However, with the introduction of the Bengali Common Voice 9.0 speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Mohammed Rakib , Md. Ismail Hossain , Nabeel Mohammed , Fuad Rahman