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Urdu is a rich language with a multilingual and
multi cultural heritage. Its roots in Arabic, English,
Persian, Sanskrit and other languages give Urdu a
diverse body of sounds and underlying linguistic
structure. Similarly, multi cultural background
introduces a varied tradition of calligraphy, prose
poetry, and other forms of art in Urdu. This rich
heritage makes Urdu far more computationally interesting
and challenging than any other language. This is also
true for Pakistan’s other regional languages including
Sindhi, Pushto, Balochi and Brohvi. These challenges
pose a vast unexplored training field for research
students in computer science.
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP)
is conducting research and development in linguistic and
computational aspects of Urdu and other languages of
Pakistan. Formation of CRULP was announced at the “First
National Urdu Software Development Workshop” held in
March 2001 at FAST-NU, Lahore and was established in July 2001.
The center was established to
conduct research and development in three areas including
Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics
and Script Processing. In addition, this center also
arranges and participates in seminars, workshops and
conferences dedicated to promote Urdu Language
processing. This work will be instrumental in
development of Urdu computing in Pakistan. The research
potential in aspects of the Urdu and regional languages
in Pakistan is enormous, as very little work has so far
been done in this field.
Our
Objectives are
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To evolve computational models of Urdu and regional
languages
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To participate in standardization efforts in Urdu
and regional languages
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To conduct research in the linguistic aspects of
Urdu and regional languages
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To promote and assist in content development for
Urdu and regional languages
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing is
providing platform for the concerned researchers to
put their efforts together for advancement in Urdu language
computation and standards development. |
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