4 papers
Structural Stress and Learned Helplessness in Afghanistan: A Multi-Layer Analysis of the AFSTRESS Dari Corpus
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mursal Dawodi, Nadira Ahmadi
We introduce AFSTRESS, the first multi-label corpus of self-reported stress narratives in Dari (Eastern Persian), comprising 737 responses collected from Afghan individuals during…
DariMis: Harm-Aware Modeling for Dari Misinformation Detection on YouTube
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mosa Ebrahimi, Mohammad Zarif Joya +1
Dari, the primary language of Afghanistan, is spoken by tens of millions of people yet remains largely absent from the misinformation detection literature. We address this gap with…
From Scarcity to Scale: A Release-Level Analysis of the Pashto Common Voice Dataset
Jandad Jahani, Mursal Dawodi, Jawid Ahmad Baktash
Large, openly licensed speech datasets are essential for building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, yet many widely spoken languages remain underrepresented in public res…
Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mursal Dawodi
For nearly two decades after 2001, Afghanistan's higher education sector expanded rapidly, with Kabul University serving as a central site of women's academic participation. Drawin…