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ParsTranslit: Truly Versatile Tajik-Farsi Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang
As a digraphic language, the Persian language utilizes two written standards: Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Iran, and Tajik-Cyrillic in Tajikistan. Despite the significant simila…
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Transformers over-extend what humans underlearn: the case of Spanish L-shaped morphome
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney
The cognitive reality of irregular morphological patterns has been debated for decades: do speakers extend them to novel forms, or are they lexical artifacts? A neural network trai…
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Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang
Despite speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the same language, speakers of Tajik Persian, written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet, cannot read Iranian and Afghan texts writ…