Mapping Violence: Developing an Extensive Framework to Build a Bangla Sectarian Expression Dataset from Social Media Interactions

no code implementations • 17 Apr 2024 • Nazia Tasnim, Sujan Sen Gupta, Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, Fatiha Islam Juee, Arunima Tahsin, Pritom Ghum, Kanij Fatema, Marshia Haque, Wasema Farzana, Prionti Nasir, Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Farig Sadeque, Asif Sushmit

Communal violence in online forums has become extremely prevalent in South Asia, where many communities of different cultures coexist and share resources.

OOD-Speech: A Large Bengali Speech Recognition Dataset for Out-of-Distribution Benchmarking

no code implementations • 15 May 2023 • Fazle Rabbi Rakib, Souhardya Saha Dip, Samiul Alam, Nazia Tasnim, Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, MD. Nazmuddoha Ansary, Syed Mobassir Hossen, Marsia Haque Meghla, Mamunur Mamun, Farig Sadeque, Sayma Sultana Chowdhury, Tahsin Reasat, Asif Sushmit, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

Our test dataset comprises 23. 03 hours of speech collected and manually annotated from 17 different sources, e. g., Bengali TV drama, Audiobook, Talk show, Online class, and Islamic sermons to name a few.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

BaDLAD: A Large Multi-Domain Bengali Document Layout Analysis Dataset

1 code implementation • 9 Mar 2023 • Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, Md. Rakibul Hasan, Mahfuzur Rahman Emon, Syed Mobassir Hossen, MD. Nazmuddoha Ansary, Intesur Ahmed, Fazle Rabbi Rakib, Shahriar Elahi Dhruvo, Souhardya Saha Dip, Akib Hasan Pavel, Marsia Haque Meghla, Md. Rezwanul Haque, Sayma Sultana Chowdhury, Farig Sadeque, Tahsin Reasat, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Asif Shahriyar Sushmit

While strides have been made in deep learning based Bengali Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the past decade, the absence of large Document Layout Analysis (DLA) datasets has hindered the application of OCR in document transcription, e. g., transcribing historical documents and newspapers.

Benchmarking Document Layout Analysis +2

VISTA: Vision Transformer enhanced by U-Net and Image Colorfulness Frame Filtration for Automatic Retail Checkout

2 code implementations • 23 Apr 2022 • Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, Nazia Tasnim, Hasib Zunair, Labiba Kanij Rupty, Nabeel Mohammed

Multi-class product counting and recognition identifies product items from images or videos for automated retail checkout.

Hand Segmentation Multi-class Classification

TEAM-Atreides at SemEval-2022 Task 11: On leveraging data augmentation and ensemble to recognize complex Named Entities in Bangla

no code implementations • SemEval (NAACL) 2022 • Nazia Tasnim, Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, Asif Shahriyar Sushmit, Steven Bethard, Farig Sadeque

Many areas, such as the biological and healthcare domain, artistic works, and organization names, have nested, overlapping, discontinuous entity mentions that may even be syntactically or semantically ambiguous in practice.

Data Augmentation