::--Corpus Analysis & Corpus Collection--::

Name:: Shadin Bangla Corpus

Summary::

The intuition of this research is to analyze text corpus for regularities and anomalies of Bangla script. Balanced text corpus is one of the parts of corpus analysis where large text of corpus is necessary. So the research team is developing a way to collect Bangla text corpus.

Details::

This projects targeted newspaper and some old text corpus such as Ptothom-alo newspaper, Charjapad and Baru Chandi Das Er Kabbo. CRBLP team selected one year corpus of most popular newspaper “Prothom-Alo”. This newspaper corpus covers 32 items of news such as daily news, literature, economics, international, science and so on. Significant amount works involved to analyze this corpus such as text collection from web, Unicode conversion and then analysis. Several analysis criteria are word frequency list, bi-gram, tri-gram analysis, letter frequency and so on. Corpus collection is important to develop Balanced text corpus which will help us in different aspects of linguistic phenomena.

Team::

• Farhana Faruqe [email] [website]
• Firoj Alam [email] [website]
• Kamrul Hayder [email]
• Matin Saad Abdullah
• Professor Mumit Khan

Past team:

• Yeasir Arafat
• Md. Zahurul Islam
  

Status:: Tool is available for download. [Download]

Timeline:: 2006-2008