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Syed Raza Shahid

Teaching Fellow [On leave]
M.Sc. University of Edinburgh, 2004
Spoken Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Speaker Identification, Computational Linguistics of Urdu
 Email: rshahid [at] lums dot edu dot pk
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Bio-Sketch

Raza Shahid joined the Department of Computer Science in March 2005. He received his MSc degree in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh where he worked with Center for Speech Technology Research for his master’s thesis on automatic multiparty speech summarisation system. Raza has also done few projects with Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing at  National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences during his undergraduate degree in computer science.


Research Interests

His research interests include spoken language processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker identification, text and speech summarisation, computational linguistics of Urdu and Urdu corpus linguistics. He has some publications in scientific study of Urdu language. He is involved in establishing a speech and language laboratory and it’s curriculum development. Recently, he has introduced two new courses Phonetics & Phonology at undergraduate level and Speech & Language Processing at graduate level.



Recent Publications of Syed Raza Shahid

  • Optimal Features Selection for Automatic Multiparty Speech Summarization

    Shahid, S.R., In Proceedings of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, Edinburgh, UK, August 2005.