Urdu Search Engine KICS UET’s Most Adorable Project

KICS UET’s High Performance Computing and Networking Lab (HPCNL) lab comes up with a surprising and lucrative project of Urdu Search Engine that is unique and attention-grabbing from all aspects. Having a search engine in your own language is no doubt a thing to rave about. It is funded by HEC and is there to build largest Urdu content repository for the citizens of Pakistan.

Since all the major search engines in the world like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., still do not offer their services to fulfill all types of user needs. For example, these search engines do not provide a search infrastructure that is generic to all the languages spoken in the world. There are several reasons for this but one main reason is that each language is not only morphologically different from the other but also the syntax varies greatly. Unfortunately, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is also less explored in the context of Urdu language. Urdu language is 5th most spoken language of the world. Majority of Urdu speakers live in Pakistan, India, Canada, and UK.

Urdu search engine will not only provide the users of Urdu with an opportunity to search the content in Urdu but also will give the opportunity to the researchers to investigate Urdu specific challenges.