In Sorani Kurdish, one of the most useful orthographic features in named-entity recognition – capitalization – is absent, as the language’s Perso-Arabic script does not make a distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters. We describe a system for deriving an inferred capitalization value from closely related languages by phonological similarity, and illustrate the system using several re...

Recently, we reported on our efforts to build the first prototype of KurdNet. In this proposal, we highlight the shortcomings of the current prototype and put forward a detailed plan to transform this prototype to a full-fledged lexical database for the Kurdish language.

For increased speed in developing gigaword language resources for medium resource density languages we integrated several FOSS tools in the HUN* toolkit. While the speed and efficiency of the resulting pipeline has surpassed our expectations, our experience in developing LDC-style resource packages for Uzbek and Kurdish makes clear that neither the data collection nor the subsequent processing ...

the existence of passive makers in kurdish language, similar to that of ancient iranian languages can be very helpful in linguistic studies, language change and finding the nature of passive structures in modern iranian languages such as persian. the writers of this article have found a passive maker in kurdish language and its dialects such as sorani, ardalani, kalhori, ilami and horami that l...

traditional raw milk cheese is one of the most consuming cheeses in the world. kurdish cheese is a semi-firm, traditionally made in the east of iran. it is manufactured from raw sheep or cow milk and kept in goat’s skin bags during ripening period. as a result kurdish cheese is often more complex in different varieties of microorganisms, which whose organoleptic properties make it highly esteem...

In the war between Ottomans and Safavids Dynasty, two thirds of Kurdistan area was separated from Iran, and joined the Ottoman territories. The Ottoman empire was defeated in World War I and Kurdistan was divided among Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and a small part joined the Soviet Russia, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Concerning the Kurdish governments which were established in Iran being led...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant...

This research under the title of (Adjective Phrase in Kurdish) An attempt to identify use adjective phrases Kurdish, According ( X-Bar) theory and some other branches that are parallel this theory, branch syntactic structures constructed by lexical elements information stored mental lexicon, Reliance semantic knowledge, However, we have relied more on for appreciation analysis phrases, We resor...