except for personal clitics in past transitive forms, sorani kurdish has threeverbal prefixes; n?- for negation, be- for subjunctive, and (d)?- for imperfective. thisarticle starts with bringing forth the question of why subjunctive marker in this languagecannot appear with verbal negative or aspect prefixes while there is no problem with the co-occurence of negative and aspect prefixes.after p...

Resource scarcity along with diversity –in both dialect and script– are the two primary challenges in Kurdish language processing. In this paper we aim at addressing these two problems by building stemmers for the two main dialects of the Kurdish language (i.e. Sorani and Kurmanji) and investigate their effectiveness on Kurdish Information Retrieval. More specifically, we build Jedar, the first...

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...

In this study we apply classification methods for detecting subdialectal differences in Sorani Kurdish texts produced in different regions, namely Iran and Iraq. As Sorani is a low-resource language, no corpus including texts from different regions was readily available. To this end, we identified data sources that could be leveraged for this task to create a dataset of 200,000 sentences. Using...

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...

Resource scarcity along with diversity– both in dialect and script–are the two primary challenges in Kurdish language processing. In this paper we aim at addressing these two problems by (i) building a text corpus for Sorani and Kurmanji, the two main dialects of Kurdish, and (ii) highlighting some of the orthographic, phonological, and morphological differences between these two dialects from ...

Discourse particles constitute an important part of spoken language; they have a wide range pragmatic functions in interactional contexts. The object the present paper is to introduce Kurdish discourse particles, clarify their different contexts, and briefly sketch some aspects grammatical properties. I will focus on Sorani since this dialect has rich inventory that not so far been investigated...

this paper, based on two dialects of kurdish, studies the -g{r suffix of farsi morphologically and semantically. in the sorani (so:rani) dialect of kurdish this suffix is -k{r. in hawrami (h{wrami) dialect of kurdish the present verbal stem of (k{rdaj) (to do) is -k{r and in sorani it is -k{. sorani has a suffix called -{r similar to english -er that produces nouns with mainly agent and instrum...