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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and classifying named entities in text. But much work hasn't been done for complex named entity recognition in Bangla, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 HAZ Sameen Shahgir , Ramisa Alam , Md. Zarif Ul Alam

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

Arabic dialect recognition presents a significant challenge in speech technology due to the linguistic diversity of Arabic and the scarcity of large annotated datasets, particularly for underrepresented dialects. This research investigates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Ghazal Al-Shwayyat , Omer Nezih Gerek

Sign language, which contains hand movements, facial expressions and bodily gestures, is a significant medium for communicating with hard-of-hearing people. A well-trained sign language community communicates easily, but those who don't…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ajeet Kumar Yadav , Nishant Kumar , Rathna G N

Image Captioning is an arduous task of producing syntactically and semantically correct textual descriptions of an image in natural language with context related to the image. Existing notable pieces of research in Bengali Image Captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohammad Faiyaz Khan , S. M. Sadiq-Ur-Rahman Shifath , Md. Saiful Islam

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

This paper presents a real-time American Sign Language (ASL) recognition system utilizing a hybrid deep learning architecture combining 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. The system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dawnena Key

The proliferation of transliterated texts in digital spaces has emphasized the need for detecting and classifying hate speech in languages beyond English, particularly in low-resource languages. As online discourse can perpetuate…

Racism is an alarming phenomenon in our country as well as all over the world. Every day we have come across some racist comments in our daily life and virtual life. Though we can eradicate this racism from virtual life (such as Social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 S. S. Saruar , Nusrat , Sadia

In spite of the advances in pattern recognition technology, Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition (HBCR) (such as alpha-numeric and special characters) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many perplexing characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Paheding Sidike , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

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

Like spoken languages, a single sign language expression could correspond to multiple valid textual interpretations. Hence, learning a rigid one-to-one mapping for sign language translation (SLT) models might be inadequate, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xin Shen , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Heming Du , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yu

Bangla, one of the most widely spoken languages, remains underrepresented in state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, particularly under noisy and speaker-diverse conditions. This paper presents BanglaRobustNet, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Md Sazzadul Islam Ridoy , Mubaswira Ibnat Zidney , Sumi Akter , Md. Aminur Rahman

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

Due to the emergence of many sign language datasets, isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) has made significant progress in recent years. In addition, the development of various advanced deep neural networks is another reason for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Siyuan Jing , Guangxue Wang , Haoyang Zhai , Qin Tao , Jun Yang , Bing Wang , Peng Jin

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

At present Automatic Speaker Recognition system is a very important issue due to its diverse applications. Hence, it becomes absolutely necessary to obtain models that take into consideration the speaking style of a person, vocal tract…

The analysis of consumer sentiment, as expressed through reviews, can provide a wealth of insight regarding the quality of a product. While the study of sentiment analysis has been widely explored in many popular languages, relatively less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mohsinul Kabir , Obayed Bin Mahfuz , Syed Rifat Raiyan , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

Speech recognition has received a less attention in Bengali literature due to the lack of a comprehensive dataset. In this paper, we describe the development process of the first comprehensive Bengali speech dataset on real numbers. It…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid , Md. Ashraful Islam , Bishwajit Purkaystha , Md Saiful Islam

Language identification of social media text still remains a challenging task due to properties like code-mixing and inconsistent phonetic transliterations. In this paper, we present a supervised learning approach for language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Soumil Mandal , Sourya Dipta Das , Dipankar Das