Developing lexicographic sorting: An example for Urdu

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hussain, Sarmad ^a   Gul, Sana ^a   Waseem, Afifah ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Text processing; Urdu

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TEXT PROCESSING;

LEXICOGRAPHIC SORTING; URDU;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448960592     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1290002.1290004     Document Type: Article

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