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To benchmark Bengali digit recognition algorithms, a large publicly available dataset is required which is free from biases originating from geographical location, gender, and age. With this aim in mind, NumtaDB, a dataset consisting of…

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Large ground-truth datasets and recent advances in deep learning techniques have been useful for layout detection. However, because of the restricted layout diversity of these datasets, training on them requires a sizable number of…

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The development of robust transliteration techniques to enhance the effectiveness of transforming Romanized scripts into native scripts is crucial for Natural Language Processing tasks, including sentiment analysis, speech recognition,…

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Before developing a Document Layout Analysis (DLA) model in real-world applications, conducting comprehensive robustness testing is essential. However, the robustness of DLA models remains underexplored in the literature. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yufan Chen , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , Philip Torr , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Document level Urdu Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a challenging Natural Language Processing (NLP) task as it deals with large documents in a resource-poor language. In large documents, there are ample amounts of words that exhibit different…

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Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential for converting vast amounts of Arabic print media into digital formats. However, training modern OCR models, especially powerful vision-language models, is hampered by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Omer Nacar , Yasser Al-Habashi , Serry Sibaee , Adel Ammar , Wadii Boulila

Document Layout Analysis (DLA) is a fundamental task in document understanding. However, existing DLA and adaptation methods often require access to large-scale source data and target labels. This requirements severely limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Sebastian Tewes , Yufan Chen , Omar Moured , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Documents often contain complex physical structures, which make the Document Layout Analysis (DLA) task challenging. As a pre-processing step for content extraction, DLA has the potential to capture rich information in historical or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shoubin Li , Xuyan Ma , Shuaiqun Pan , Jun Hu , Lin Shi , Qing Wang

Coreference Resolution is a well studied problem in NLP. While widely studied for English and other resource-rich languages, research on coreference resolution in Bengali largely remains unexplored due to the absence of relevant datasets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shadman Rohan , Mojammel Hossain , Mohammad Mamun Or Rashid , Nabeel Mohammed

Hate speech on digital platforms has become a growing concern globally, especially in linguistically diverse countries like Bangladesh, where regional dialects play a major role in everyday communication. Despite progress in hate speech…

We introduce a new dataset for offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) from images of Bangla scripts comprising words, lines, and document-level annotations. The BN-HTRd dataset is based on the BBC Bangla News corpus, meant to act as…

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Building document-grounded dialogue systems have received growing interest as documents convey a wealth of human knowledge and commonly exist in enterprises. Wherein, how to comprehend and retrieve information from documents is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhenyu Zhang , Bowen Yu , Haiyang Yu , Tingwen Liu , Cheng Fu , Jingyang Li , Chengguang Tang , Jian Sun , Yongbin Li

The document layout analysis (DLA) aims to split the document image into different interest regions and understand the role of each region, which has wide application such as optical character recognition (OCR) systems and document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xingjiao Wu , Ziling Hu , Xiangcheng Du , Jing Yang , Liang He

We present a novel, open-access dataset designed for semantic layout analysis, built to support document recreation workflows through mapping with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard. This dataset includes 7,254 annotated pages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Thibault Clérice , Juliette Janes , Hugo Scheithauer , Sarah Bénière , Florian Cafiero , Laurent Romary , Simon Gabay , Benoît Sagot

Bengali is an underrepresented language in NLP research. However, it remains a challenge due to its unique linguistic structure and computational constraints. In this work, we systematically investigate the challenges that hinder Bengali…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shimanto Bhowmik , Tawsif Tashwar Dipto , Md Sazzad Islam , Sheryl Hsu , Tahsin Reasat

Large language models (LLMs) frequently exhibit performance biases against regional dialects of low-resource languages. However, frameworks to quantify these disparities remain scarce. We propose a two-phase framework to evaluate dialectal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 K. M. Jubair Sami , Dipto Sumit , Ariyan Hossain , Farig Sadeque

Sentiment analysis for the Bengali language has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. However, progress remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale and diverse annotated datasets. Although several Bengali sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Akif Islam , Sujan Kumar Roy , Md. Ekramul Hamid

Bangla culture is richly expressed through region, dialect, history, food, politics, media, and everyday visual life, yet it remains underrepresented in multimodal evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce BanglaVerse, a culturally…

This paper presents a high-quality multilingual dataset for the documentation domain to advance research on localization of structured text. Unlike widely-used datasets for translation of plain text, we collect XML-structured parallel text…

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