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Voices of the Mountains: Deep Learning-Based Vocal Error Detection System for Kurdish Maqams
Darvan Shvan Khairaldeen, Hossein Hassani
Maqam, a singing type, is a significant component of Kurdish music. A maqam singer receives training in a traditional face-to-face or through self-training. Automatic Singing Asses…
I can tell whether you are a Native Hawlêri Speaker! How ANN, CNN, and RNN perform in NLI-Native Language Identification
Hardi Garari, Hossein Hassani
Native Language Identification (NLI) is a task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that typically determines the native language of an author through their writing or a speaker th…
Mining Mental Health Signals: A Comparative Study of Four Machine Learning Methods for Depression Detection from Social Media Posts in Sorani Kurdish
Idrees Mohammed, Hossein Hassani
Depression is a common mental health condition that can lead to hopelessness, loss of interest, self-harm, and even suicide. Early detection is challenging due to individuals not s…
Which one Performs Better? Wav2Vec or Whisper? Applying both in Badini Kurdish Speech to Text (BKSTT)
Renas Adnan, Hossein Hassani
Speech-to-text (STT) systems have a wide range of applications. They are available in many languages, albeit at different quality levels. Although Kurdish is considered a less-reso…
Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) for Research Documents in Sorani Kurdish
Rondik Hadi Abdulrahman, Hossein Hassani
Extracting concise information from scientific documents aids learners, researchers, and practitioners. Automatic Text Summarization (ATS), a key Natural Language Processing (NLP)…
Domain-Specific Machine Translation to Translate Medicine Brochures in English to Sorani Kurdish
Mariam Shamal, Hossein Hassani
Access to Kurdish medicine brochures is limited, depriving Kurdish-speaking communities of critical health information. To address this problem, we developed a specialized Machine…
Idiom Detection in Sorani Kurdish Texts
Skala Kamaran Omer, Hossein Hassani
Idiom detection using Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized process of recognizing figurative expressions within a text that convey meanings beyond the literal inte…
Shifting from endangerment to rebirth in the Artificial Intelligence Age: An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach for Hawrami Text Classification
Aram Khaksar, Hossein Hassani
Hawrami, a dialect of Kurdish, is classified as an endangered language as it suffers from the scarcity of data and the gradual loss of its speakers. Natural Language Processing pro…
Ancient but Digitized: Developing Handwritten Optical Character Recognition for East Syriac Script Through Creating KHAMIS Dataset
Ameer Majeed, Hossein Hassani
Many languages have vast amounts of handwritten texts, such as ancient scripts about folktale stories and historical narratives or contemporary documents and letters. Digitization…
Making Old Kurdish Publications Processable by Augmenting Available Optical Character Recognition Engines
Blnd Yaseen, Hossein Hassani
Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recogn…
Where Are You From? Let Me Guess! Subdialect Recognition of Speeches in Sorani Kurdish
Sana Isam, Hossein Hassani
Classifying Sorani Kurdish subdialects poses a challenge due to the need for publicly available datasets or reliable resources like social media or websites for data collection. We…
The First Parallel Corpora for Kurdish Sign Language
Zina Kamal, Hossein Hassani
Kurdish Sign Language (KuSL) is the natural language of the Kurdish Deaf people. We work on automatic translation between spoken Kurdish and KuSL. Sign languages evolve rapidly and…
A Dataset of Kurdish (Sorani) Named Entities -- An Amendment to Kurdish-BLARK Named Entities
Sazan Salar, Hossein Hassani
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the essential applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is also an instrument that plays a significant role in many other NLP a…
Part of Speech Tagging (POST) of a Low-resource Language using another Language (Developing a POS-Tagged Lexicon for Kurdish (Sorani) using a Tagged Persian (Farsi) Corpus)
Hossein Hassani
Tagged corpora play a crucial role in a wide range of Natural Language Processing. The Part of Speech Tagging (POST) is essential in developing tagged corpora. It is time-and-effor…
Comparing the Accuracy of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in Music Genre Recognition (MGR): Experiments on Kurdish Music
Aza Zuhair, Hossein Hassani
Musicologists use various labels to classify similar music styles under a shared title. But, non-specialists may categorize music differently. That could be through finding pattern…
Can Linguistic Distance help Language Classification? Assessing Hawrami-Zaza and Kurmanji-Sorani
Hossein Hassani
To consider Hawrami and Zaza (Zazaki) standalone languages or dialects of a language have been discussed and debated for a while among linguists active in studying Iranian language…
Transliterating Kurdish texts in Latin into Persian-Arabic script
Hossein Hassani
Kurdish is written in different scripts. The two most popular scripts are Latin and Persian-Arabic. However, not all Kurdish readers are familiar with both mentioned scripts that c…
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…
Using Punkt for Sentence Segmentation in non-Latin Scripts: Experiments on Kurdish (Sorani) Texts
Roshna Omer Abdulrahman, Hossein Hassani
Segmentation is a fundamental step for most Natural Language Processing tasks. The Kurdish language is a multi-dialect, under-resourced language which is written in different scrip…
Kurdish (Sorani) Speech to Text: Presenting an Experimental Dataset
Akam Qader, Hossein Hassani
We present an experimental dataset, Basic Dataset for Sorani Kurdish Automatic Speech Recognition (BD-4SK-ASR), which we used in the first attempt in developing an automatic speech…
Digital Humanities Readiness Assessment Framework: DHuRAF
Hossein Hassani, Emir Turajlić, Kemal Taljanović
This research suggests a framework, Digital Humanities Readiness Assessment Framework (DHuRAF), to assess the maturity level of the required infrastructure for Digital Humanities s…
Research Methods in Computer Science: The Challenges and Issues
Hossein Hassani
Research methods are essential parts in conducting any research project. Although they have been theorized and summarized based on best practices, every field of science requires a…