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Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-checker for Sorani Kurdish
The present paper aims at presenting a lemmatization and a word-level error correction system for Sorani Kurdish.
Learning Noun Cases Using Sequential Neural Networks
Morphological declension, which aims to inflect nouns to indicate number, case and gender, is an important task in natural language processing (NLP).
A Rule-based Kurdish Text Transliteration System
In this article, we present a rule-based approach for transliterating two mostly used orthographies in Sorani Kurdish.
Developing a Fine-Grained Corpus for a Less-resourced Language: the case of Kurdish
Kurdish is a less-resourced language consisting of different dialects written in various scripts.
Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
In this paper we present an approach to validate terminological data retrieved from open encyclopaedic knowledge bases.
A Multilingual Evaluation Dataset for Monolingual Word Sense Alignment
Aligning senses across resources and languages is a challenging task with beneficial applications in the field of natural language processing and electronic lexicography.
Challenges of Word Sense Alignment: Portuguese Language Resources
Word sense alignment involves searching for matching senses within dictionary entries of different lexical resources and linking them, which poses significant challenges.
A Corpus of the Sorani Kurdish Folkloric Lyrics
We believe that this corpus contributes to Kurdish language processing in several ways, such as compensation for the lack of a long history of written text by incorporating oral literature, presenting an unexplored realm in Kurdish language processing, and assisting the initiation of Kurdish computational folkloristics.
Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish
Morphological analysis is the study of the formation and structure of words.
Leveraging Multilingual News Websites for Building a Kurdish Parallel Corpus
We present a corpus containing 12, 327 translation pairs in the two major dialects of Kurdish, Sorani and Kurmanji.
Towards Machine Translation for the Kurdish Language
Machine translation is the task of translating texts from one language to another using computers.
A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology
Sorani Kurdish, also known as Central Kurdish, has a complex morphology, particularly due to the patterns in which morphemes appear.
Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis
Spell checking and morphological analysis are two fundamental tasks in text and natural language processing and are addressed in the early stages of the development of language technology.
Monolingual alignment of word senses and definitions in lexicographical resources
This is a challenging task, especially due to differences in sense granularity, coverage and description in two resources.
PALI: A Language Identification Benchmark for Perso-Arabic Scripts
The Perso-Arabic scripts are a family of scripts that are widely adopted and used by various linguistic communities around the globe.
Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki
One of the major challenges that under-represented and endangered language communities face in language technology is the lack or paucity of language data.
Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis is the process of identifying and extracting subjective information from text.
Script Normalization for Unconventional Writing of Under-Resourced Languages in Bilingual Communities
The wide accessibility of social media has provided linguistically under-represented communities with an extraordinary opportunity to create content in their native languages.
CODET: A Benchmark for Contrastive Dialectal Evaluation of Machine Translation
Neural machine translation (NMT) systems exhibit limited robustness in handling source-side linguistic variations.
A Morphologically-Aware Dictionary-based Data Augmentation Technique for Machine Translation of Under-Represented Languages
In this paper, we propose strategies to synthesize parallel data relying on morpho-syntactic information and using bilingual lexicons along with a small amount of seed parallel data.
Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties
Kurdish, an Indo-European language spoken by over 30 million speakers, is considered a dialect continuum and known for its diversity in language varieties.
A Tokenization System for the Kurdish Language
We demonstrate how the morphological complexity of the language along with the lack of a unified orthography can be efficiently addressed in tokenization.
Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language Family
The Zaza–Gorani language family is a linguistic subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian languages for which there is no significant corpus available.
KLPT – Kurdish Language Processing Toolkit
Despite the recent advances in applying language-independent approaches to various natural language processing tasks thanks to artificial intelligence, some language-specific tools are still essential to process a language in a viable manner.
Monolingual Word Sense Alignment as a Classification Problem
Words are defined based on their meanings in various ways in different resources.
Cross-Lingual Link Discovery for Under-Resourced Languages
In this paper, we provide an overview of current technologies for cross-lingual link discovery, and we discuss challenges, experiences and prospects of their application to under-resourced languages.
