Background

The Information and Language Processing Research Lab (ILPRL) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University was founded in 2004. The lab was founded in the wake of the PAN Localization Project, a multi-national localization Project that was conducted in 11 countries and 22 partners of South and SouthEast Asia. Kathmandu University was a collaborating partner along with Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) representing the Nepal Country component. The PAN localization project was a forerunner in the domain of Software Localization and Natural Language Processing in Nepal and the participating countries.

Activities

Empowering Information Access Rights: Developing a Trilingual Machine Translation System for English-Nepali-Tamang

Stakeholder meeting at Kathmandu University, bringing together linguists, academics, entrepreneurs, government officials, engineers, journalists, and representatives from the Tamang community.

Establishment

The ILPRL was established in 2004 as part of the PAN Localization Project, aiming to advance software localization and natural language processing in Nepal and the participating South and South East Asian countries.

Initiatives

Our initiatives include...focusing on creating multilingual models and tools for underrepresented languages.

Research Area

Text-to-Speech Systems

Optical Character Recognition

Information Retrieval

Software Localization

Trend Analysis

Low-Resource Languages

E-Governance

Image/Video Captioning

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing

Speech Processing

Machine Translation

Named Entity Recognition

Data Science and Analytics

Sentiment Analysis

Lead Researcher

Information

Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal

Professor, Lead Researcher (PI)

Kathmandu University

bal@ku.edu.np

Research Domain

• Text-to-Speech Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Software Localization
• Trend Analysis
• Low-Resource Languages
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech Processing
• Machine Translation
• Sentiment Analysis