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 …

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 …

Despite having a large number of speakers, the Kurdish language is among the less-
resourced languages. In this work we highlight the challenges and problems in providing the …

The notable growth of the digital communities and different online news streams led to the
growing availability of online natural language content. However not all natural languages …

This paper presents an ongoing project aimed at creation of corpora for minority Uralic
languages that contain texts posted on social media. Corpora for Udmurt and Erzya are fully …

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 …

Thanks to the growth of local communities and various news websites along with the
increasing accessibility of the Web, some of the endangered and less-resourced languages …

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 …

The world is undergoing a huge transformation from industrial economies into an informa‐-
tion economy, in which the indices of value are shifting from material to non-material re …

Abstract Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language with more than 75 million native speakers1 is a
resourcepoor language in terms of the availability of language technology tools and …