Creating a fine-grained corpus for a less-resourced language: the case of Kurdish
Omer Abdulrahman, Roshna Hassani, Hossein Ahmadi, Sina
Omer Abdulrahman, Roshna
Hassani, Hossein
Ahmadi, Sina
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/15275
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2019-07-28
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Omer Abdulrahman, Roshna, Hassani, Hossein, & Ahmadi, Sina. (2019). Creating a Fine-Grained Corpus for a Less-resourced Language: the case of Kurdish. Paper presented at the WiNLP 2019 workshop (ACL 2019), Florence, Italy, 28 July. https://doi.org/10.13025/fbpt-e181
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Kurdish is a less-resourced language consisting of different dialects written in various scripts. Approximately 30 million people in different countries speak the language. The lack of corpora is one of the main obstacles in Kurdish language processing. In this paper, we present KTC the Kurdish Textbooks Corpus, which is composed of 31 K-12 textbooks in Sorani dialect. The corpus is normalized and categorized into 12 educational subjects containing 693,800 tokens (110,297 types). Our resource is publicly available for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
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NUI Galway
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