This research suggests a method for machine translation among two Kurdish dialects. We chose the two widely spoken dialects, Kurmanji and Sorani, which are considered to be mutually unintelligible. Also, despite being spoken by about 30 million people in different countries, Kurdish is among less-resourced languages. The research used bi-dialectal dictionaries and showed that the lack of parall...

This research analyses the political Islamic movement in East of Kurdistan between 1979-2001. In 1979, after Iranian Nations revolution's success, a number religious movements and organizations formed. A part these was working to establish local Kurdish-Islamic authority. On other hand, there were with Ayatollah Khomeini newly installed regime Tehran, others identifying themselves under umbrell...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

The paper looks at constraints on non-wh relatives in Sorani Kurdish (Iranian) and English (Germanic). We argue that some of them are grammatical, whereas others introduce social meaning. present a basic, lexicalist syntactic analysis expand it with meaning constraints. propose classical sociolinguistic variables have the status conventional implicatures overall assessment style is treated as p...

BACKGROUND From 1986-9, the Kurdish population of Iraqi Kurdistan was subjected to an intense campaign of military action, and genocide by the central Iraq government. This campaign, referred to as the Anfal, included systematic attacks consisting of aerial bombings, mass deportation, imprisonment, torture, and chemical warfare. It has been estimated that around 200,000 Kurdish people disappear...

Automatic dialect identification is a necessary Language Technology for processing multidialect languages in which the dialects are linguistically far from each other. Particularly, this becomes crucial where the dialects are mutually unintelligible. Therefore, to perform computational activities on these languages, the system needs to identify the dialect that is the subject of the process. Ku...

The Kurdish language is an Indo-European language spoken in Kurdistan, a large geographical region in the Middle East. Despite having a large number of speakers, Kurdish is among the less-resourced languages and has not seen much attention from the IR and NLP research communities. This paper reports on the outcomes of a project aimed at providing essential resources for processing Kurdish texts...

This research provides a theoretical framework for understanding how individuals living under dictatorship calibrate their political behaviors. The illustrates the United States agenda on Iraqi Kurdish mass migration in 1991, due to negative impact of Saddam’s regime people started run away from lands toward Turkish and Iranian borders. Nowadays international relations are considered as most ef...

Despite the cultural significance of dance in Jewish communities around world, research into Middle Eastern outside modern nation-state Israel is sorely under-researched. This article aims to help rectify this by focusing on Yemenite, Persian/Iranian, and Kurdish explores how these dancers have functioned been received within societies they a part of. The methods that gone are combination analy...