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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…
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…
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…
Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties
Sina Ahmadi, Daban Q. Jaff, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam +1
Kurdish, an Indo-European language spoken by over 30 million speakers, is considered a dialect continuum and known for its diversity in language varieties. Previous studies address…