3 papers
cs.CL2026
English to Central Kurdish Speech Translation: Corpus Creation, Evaluation, and Orthographic Standardization
Mohammad Mohammadamini, Daban Q. Jaff, Josep Crego +2
We present KUTED, a speech-to-text translation (S2TT) dataset for Central Kurdish, derived from TED and TEDx talks. The corpus comprises 91,000 sentence pairs, including 170 hours…
cs.CL2026
FLEURS-Kobani: Extending the FLEURS Dataset for Northern Kurdish
Daban Q. Jaff, Mohammad Mohammadamini
FLEURS offers n-way parallel speech for 100+ languages, but Northern Kurdish is not one of them, which limits benchmarking for automatic speech recognition and speech translation t…
cs.CL2026
From Consensus to Split Decisions: ABC-Stratified Sentiment in Holocaust Oral Histories
Daban Q. Jaff
Polarity detection becomes substantially more challenging under domain shift, particularly in heterogeneous, long-form narratives with complex discourse structure, such as Holocaus…