Despite the recent advances in applying language-independent approaches to various
natural language processing tasks thanks to artificial intelligence, some language-specific …

Tokenization is one of the essential and fundamental tasks in natural language processing.
Despite the recent advances in applying unsupervised statistical methods for this task, every …

One of the major challenges that under-represented and endangered language
communities face in language technology is the lack or paucity of language data. This is …

Abstract Machine translation is the task of translating texts from one language to another
using computers. It has been one of the major tasks in natural language processing and …

Previous research has shown that both input quantity and quality play a role in dual
language learning. However, it is unclear whether input quantity factors (eg, school input) …

Machine translation has been a major motivation of development in natural language
processing. Despite the burgeoning achievements in creating more efficient machine …

This paper introduces the first large vocabulary speech recognition system (LVSR) for the
Central Kurdish language, named Jira. The Kurdish language is an Indo-European …

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 …

Kurdish poetry and prose narratives were historically transmitted orally and less in a written
form. Being an essential medium of oral narration and literature, Kurdish lyrics have had a …

In this paper, we introduce the first large vocabulary speech recognition system (LVSR) for
the Central Kurdish language, named Jira. The Kurdish language is an Indo-European …