BANGLADESH, Chattagram, 24th September 2019 - Apurba’s CEO Fuad Rahman delivered a keynote titled “Challenges and Prospects of Bangla Natural Language Processing: A Perspective” at the 1st National Workshop on Computational Linguistics & Bangla Language Processing (CLBLP) 2019. This workshop was organized by the CSE Department, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, on 24-25th September, 2019.
The talk focused on the challenges of Bangla NLP and how to overcome them. The event was participated by over 200 researchers, academics, and representatives of administration and industry.
CLBLP 2019 aimed to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, industry experts, and scholars to share their latest findings, developments and applications in all aspects of NLP. This workshop also aimed to develop a poll of practitioners through training who can learn how to deal with the real-world challenges of NLP. The theme of this workshop was Language Technology for Digital Bangladesh.
Apurba Technologies is a Dhaka, Bangladesh, based software development company that creates enterprise big data solutions for natural language processing, visualization and analytics. Apurba has been a leader in Bangla language processing, focussed on developing large scale computerization of Bangla at every aspect: but especially targeted to government, banking, finance and healthcare sectors.