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Despite the widespread use of the Persian language by millions globally, limited efforts have been made in natural language processing for this language. The use of large language models as effective tools in various natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mohammad Amin Abbasi , Arash Ghafouri , Mahdi Firouzmandi , Hassan Naderi , Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli

The Iranian Persian language has two varieties: standard and colloquial. Most natural language processing tools for Persian assume that the text is in standard form: this assumption is wrong in many real applications especially web content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli , Farzane Bakhtyari , Fatemeh Shafiei , Mahsa Ravanbakhsh , Chris Callison-Burch

Tokenization plays a significant role in the process of lexical analysis. Tokens become the input for other natural language processing tasks, like semantic parsing and language modeling. Natural Language Processing in Persian is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Danial Kamali , Behrooz Janfada , Mohammad Ebrahim Shenasa , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

One fundamental task for NLP is to determine the similarity between two texts and evaluate the extent of their likeness. The previous methods for the Persian language have low accuracy and are unable to comprehend the structure and meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Seyed Mojtaba Sadjadi , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei , Mohammad-Shahram Moin

We present ESPnet-SpeechLM, an open toolkit designed to democratize the development of speech language models (SpeechLMs) and voice-driven agentic applications. The toolkit standardizes speech processing tasks by framing them as universal…

Persian remains substantially underrepresented in open speech-text resources, limiting progress in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS), speech-language modelling, and low-resource speech processing. We introduce ParsVoice, the largest…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi , Heshaam Faili , Azadeh Shakery

Recent advancements in text embedding have significantly improved natural language understanding across many languages, yet Persian remains notably underrepresented in large-scale embedding research. In this paper, we present Hakim, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Mehran Sarmadi , Morteza Alikhani , Erfan Zinvandi , Zahra Pourbahman

Text processing is one of the sub-branches of natural language processing. Recently, the use of machine learning and neural networks methods has been given greater consideration. For this reason, the representation of words has become very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Siamak Sarmady , Erfan Rahmani

The study of historical languages presents unique challenges due to their complex orthographic systems, fragmentary textual evidence, and the absence of standardized digital representations of text in those languages. Tackling these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Farhan Farsi , Parnian Fazel , Sepand Haghighi , Sadra Sabouri , Farzaneh Goshtasb , Nadia Hajipour , Ehsaneddin Asgari , Hossein Sameti

Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion for Persian presents unique challenges due to its complex phonological features, particularly homographs and Ezafe, which exist in formal and informal language contexts. This paper introduces an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Abbas Bertina , Shahab Beirami , Hossein Biniazian , Elham Esmaeilnia , Soheil Shahi , Mahdi Pirnia

Undoubtedly, one of the most important issues in computer science is intelligent speech recognition. In these systems, computers try to detect and respond to the speeches they are listening to, like humans. In this research, presenting of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Saber Malekzadeh

Social media data has been of interest to Natural Language Processing (NLP) practitioners for over a decade, because of its richness in information, but also challenges for automatic processing. Since language use is more informal,…

Introduction: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging, the process of classifying words into their respective parts of speech (e.g., verb or noun), is essential in various natural language processing applications. POS tagging is a crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Leyla Rabiei , Farzaneh Rahmani , Mohammad Khansari , Zeinab Rajabi , Moein Salimi

There is a wide variety of speech processing tasks ranging from extracting content information from speech signals to generating speech signals. For different tasks, model networks are usually designed and tuned separately. If a universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yi-Chen Chen , Po-Han Chi , Shu-wen Yang , Kai-Wei Chang , Jheng-hao Lin , Sung-Feng Huang , Da-Rong Liu , Chi-Liang Liu , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Hung-yi Lee

Prompting has become a practical method for utilizing pre-trained language models (LMs). This approach offers several advantages. It allows an LM to adapt to new tasks with minimal training and parameter updates, thus achieving efficiency…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Kai-Wei Chang , Haibin Wu , Yu-Kai Wang , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Hua Shen , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Iu-thing Kang , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

As a digraphic language, the Persian language utilizes two written standards: Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Iran, and Tajik-Cyrillic in Tajikistan. Despite the significant similarity between the dialects of each country, script…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Rayyan Merchant , Kevin Tang

Text summarization is one of the most critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. More and more researches are conducted in this field every day. Pre-trained transformer-based encoder-decoder models have begun to gain popularity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mehrdad Farahani , Mohammad Gharachorloo , Mohammad Manthouri

This research introduces a state-of-the-art Persian spelling correction system that seamlessly integrates deep learning techniques with phonetic analysis, significantly enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Dashti , Amid Khatibi Bardsiri , Mehdi Jafari Shahbazzadeh

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for the recognition of Persian phonemes in the Persian Consonant-Vowel Combination (PCVC) speech dataset. Nowadays, deep neural networks play a crucial role in classification tasks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Saber Malekzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Gholizadeh , Hossein Ghayoumi zadeh , Seyed Naser Razavi

Homograph disambiguation, the task of distinguishing words with identical spellings but different meanings, poses a substantial challenge in natural language processing. In this study, we introduce a novel dataset tailored for Persian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh , Kourosh Shahnazari
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