Leveraging Multilingual News Websites for Building a Kurdish Parallel Corpus

Machine translation has been a major motivation of development in natural language processing. Despite the burgeoning achievements creating more efficient machine systems, thanks to deep learning methods, parallel corpora have remained indispensable for progress field. In an attempt create Kurdish language, this article, we describe our approach retrieving potentially alignable news articles from multi-language websites and manually align them across dialects languages based on lexical similarity transliteration scripts. We present corpus containing 12,327 pairs two Kurdish, Sorani Kurmanji. also provide 1,797 650 English-Kurmanji English-Sorani. The is publicly available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. 1