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Script Normalization for Unconventional Writing of Under-Resourced Languages in Bilingual Communities
Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The wide accessibility of social media has provided linguistically under-represented communities with an extraordinary opportunity to create content in their native languages. This…
CODET: A Benchmark for Contrastive Dialectal Evaluation of Machine Translation
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Neural machine translation (NMT) systems exhibit limited robustness in handling source-side linguistic variations. Their performance tends to degrade when faced with even slight de…
Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Sentiment Analysis
Razhan Hameed, Sina Ahmadi, Fatemeh Daneshfar
Sentiment analysis is the process of identifying and extracting subjective information from text. Despite the advances to employ cross-lingual approaches in an automatic way, the i…
PALI: A Language Identification Benchmark for Perso-Arabic Scripts
Sina Ahmadi, Milind Agarwal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The Perso-Arabic scripts are a family of scripts that are widely adopted and used by various linguistic communities around the globe. Identifying various languages using such scrip…
Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki
Sina Ahmadi, Zahra Azin, Sara Belelli +1
One of the major challenges that under-represented and endangered language communities face in language technology is the lack or paucity of language data. This is also the case of…
Monolingual alignment of word senses and definitions in lexicographical resources
Sina Ahmadi
The focus of this thesis is broadly on the alignment of lexicographical data, particularly dictionaries. In order to tackle some of the challenges in this field, two main tasks of…
Towards Machine Translation for the Kurdish Language
Sina Ahmadi, Mariam Masoud
Machine translation is the task of translating texts from one language to another using computers. It has been one of the major tasks in natural language processing and computation…
Leveraging Multilingual News Websites for Building a Kurdish Parallel Corpus
Sina Ahmadi, Hossein Hassani, Daban Q. Jaff
Machine translation has been a major motivation of development in natural language processing. Despite the burgeoning achievements in creating more efficient machine translation sy…
Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish
Sina Ahmadi, Hossein Hassani
Morphological analysis is the study of the formation and structure of words. It plays a crucial role in various tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguis…
A Rule-based Kurdish Text Transliteration System
Sina Ahmadi
In this article, we present a rule-based approach for transliterating two mostly used orthographies in Sorani Kurdish. Our work consists of detecting a character in a word by remov…
Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-checker for Sorani Kurdish
Shahin Salavati, Sina Ahmadi
The present paper aims at presenting a lemmatization and a word-level error correction system for Sorani Kurdish. We propose a hybrid approach based on the morphological rules and…
Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks for Spelling and Grammatical Error Correction
Sina Ahmadi
Automatic spelling and grammatical correction systems are one of the most widely used tools within natural language applications. In this thesis, we assume the task of error correc…