Research

Masters Theses conducted at the Lab

  1. Rati Manandhar, “Developing Software Process Improvement Plan: Case Studies of Software Companies of Nepal”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2011.
  2. Vijay Shrestha, “Library Automation and Networking Using Cost-Effective Technology and Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC)”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2012.
  3. Prajwal Amatya, “Investigating Trust issues in the implementation of e-government in Nepal using ethnography as a tool”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2012.
  4. Shanta Acharya, “A Framework for Integrating Digital Library System to Content Management System (Moodle)”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2014.
  5. Mukesh Chapagain, “Recommendation System Using Ratings and Reviews”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2015.
  6. Nirajan Pant, “Segmentation Problems in Nepali Optical Character Recognition”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2016.
  7. Santosh Regmi, “Making a Distinction between Facts and Opinions in Nepali Subjective Texts”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2016.
  8. Lal Bahadur Reshmi Thapa, “Document Level Opinion Analysis of Nepali Subjective Texts”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2016.
  9. Chandan Prasad Gupta, “Subjectivity Analysis in Nepali”,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2016.
  10. Rupak Raj Ghimire, “Algorithms and Techniques for Nepali Text-to-Speech”,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2017.
  11. Gopal Maharjan, “Named-Entity Recognition for Nepali”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2018.
  12. Roop Shree Ratna Bajracharya,”Building a Natural Sounding Text-to-Speech System for Nepali”.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2018.
  13. Roshan Manushree Adhikari,”Study of Effectiveness of Deep Learning Techniques for Intrusion Detection in the Context of Adversarial Attacks”. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2018.
  14. Praveen Acharya,”Deep Learning Approach for English-Nepali language pair Machine Translation”.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University,2019.
  15. Kamal Kafle,”Popularity Tracking and Trend Analysis of Political Figures/Entities based on News Media”.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University,2019.
  16. Manoj Roka, “Predicting the Topic of Nepali Documents via Topic Modeling Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation”.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University,2019.
  17. Birat Bade Shrestha, “Named Entity-based Sentiment Analysis in News Media”. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2020.
  18. Umesh Hengaju (Since 2019), “Improving OCR via Enhanced Pre-processing Techniques”. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2020.
  19. Bipesh Subedi, Bal Krishna Bal (2022).  CNN-Transformer based Encoder-Decoder Model for Nepali Image Captioning.. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 86–91, New Delhi, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  20. Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Prakash Poudyal (2023). A Comprehensive Study of the Current State-of-the-Art in Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition Systems. International Conference on Technologies for Computer, Electrical, Electronics & Communication (ICT-CEEL 2023), 11’th – 13’th October 2023, Bhaktapur, Nepal. [Was awarded the Best Paper]
  21. Saugat Singh, Bipesh Subedi, and Bal Krishna Bal (2023). Nepali Video Captioning using CNN-RNN Architecture. International Conference on Technologies for Computer, Electrical, Electronics & Communication (ICT-CEEL 2023), 11’th – 13’th October 2023, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
  22. Shishir Paudel, Bal Krishna Bal, and Dhiraj Shrestha (2023). Large Vocabulary Continous Speech Recognition for Nepali Language using CNN and Transformer. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, pages 328–333, Vienna, Austria. NOVA CLUNL, Portugal.
  23. Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Prakash Poudyal (2023). Active Learning Approach for Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained ASR Model for a LowResourced Language: A Case Study of Nepali. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Goa, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  24. Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Balaram Prasain, Prakash Poudyal (2023). Pronunciation-Aware Syllable Tokenizer for Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition System. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Goa, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  25. Ishan Dongol, Bal Krishna Bal (2023). Transformer-based Nepali Text-to-Speech. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Goa, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Current Masters Theses students

Sunil Regmi (Since 2020), Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Nepali. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Kathmandu University.

Research Project Reports:

  1. Trust Issues in E-Government – An Ethnographic Investigation on Nepalese Context.  Final Report. Submitted to Research Division, University Grants Commission, Sanothimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal, 2012.
  2. Opinion Mining and Argumentation Analysis from Newspaper Editorials. Final Report. Submitted to Research Division, University Grants Commission, Sanothimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal, 2013.

Collaborations:

  1. Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Lalitpur, PatanDhoka, Nepal.
  2. Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  3. Language Technology Kendra, Lalitpur, PatanDhoka, Nepal.
  4. KEIV Technologies, Koteshwor, Kathmandu.
  5. Nepal Association of Blind, Sukedhara, Kathmandu.
  6. Bhasha Aayog, Nepal Government. Sankhamul, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  7. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Texas, US.