Release of Urdu NVU web authoring system and other software at CRULP

[Sarmad Hussain]

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the release of the Urdu Nvu Windows Installer developed by the Pakistan Country Component of PAN Localization Project (funded by the IDRC) at the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences ( NUCES).  

Nvu is an open-source, multi-platform, complete web authoring system featuring WYSIWYG editing of pages and integrated file management via FTP, which can be used for easy and quick content development. The current release of the Nvu localization includes the Urdu Nvu installer for Windows, which has it's GUI in Urdu. Work to be done for future releases includes changing the layout direction of Urdu Nvu to right-to-left.   For download and installation details, please go to Urdu Nvu Windows Installer.

 

 

Other recent releases at www.crulp.org  include:

 

-          Urdu Spelling Checker Application, DLL and Source Code

-          Urdu Normalization Application, DLL and Source Code

-          Urdu Collation Application, DLL and Source Code

-          Improved Urdu Phonetic Keyboard Layouts (two-face and three-face versions, updated for Unicode)

-          Improved versions of Nafees Nastalique, Naskh and Web Naskh

-          List of valid ligatures of Urdu

-          List of 100 most frequent words for Urdu based on analysis of 18 million Urdu word corpus

-          Nafees Riqa font

-          Urdu Interface Pack for SeaMonkey Internet Suite

-          Thesis from CRULP graduate students

-          Research publications from CRULP researchers

 

Upcoming releases include:

 

-          Urdu Automatic-Part-of-Speech Tagger

-          Urdu list of closed-class words

-          POS-Tagged Corpus of Urdu

-          Named-Entity Tagged Corpus of Urdu

-          Automatic Urdu Word Segmentor

 

 

Apologies for multiple postings.

 

Regards,

 

Sarmad Hussain
www.crulp.org