Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
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| Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing | |
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| Founder(s) | National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences |
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| Type | Research n Development |
| Founded | March, 2001 |
| Headquarters | B-Block, Faisal Town, Lahore, Pakistan. |
| Key people | Dr. Sarmad Hussain |
| Area served | Urdu Computing, Localization |
| Website | www.crulp.org |
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.
[edit] PAN Localization Project
This project is an initiative of International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada and the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP). The Objective of this project is to build local language computing capacity in regional institutions of Asia. Phase II of PAN Localization project will research into challenges associated with digital literacy of end-users using the localized technology for communication and to produce local language content. The project will also continue to further mature the language technology in the target languages. This project is led by researchers at CRULP, NUCES. CRULP will be coordinating efforts across Asia through ICT researchers, practitioners, linguists and policymakers from government agencies, universities and the private sector. The countries (and languages) included in the second phase of the project are Afghanistan (Pashto), Bangladesh (Bangla), Bhutan (Dzongkha), Cambodia (Khmer), China (Tibetan), Laos (Lao), Mongolia (Mongolian), Nepal (Nepali), Pakistan (Urdu) and Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Tamil).
