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This Paper presents a method for lexicon reduction of Printed Farsi subwords based on their holistic shape features. Because of the large number of Persian subwords variously shaped from a simple letter to a complex combination of several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Homa Davoudi , Ehsanollah Kabir

Punctuation restoration is essential for improving the readability and downstream utility of automatic speech recognition (ASR) outputs, yet remains underexplored for Persian despite its importance. We introduce PersianPunc, a large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi , Heshaam Faili , Azadeh Shakery

Modern neural networks have greatly improved performance across speech recognition benchmarks. However, gains are often driven by frequent words with limited semantic weight, which can obscure meaningful differences in word error rate, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Havtorn , Christian Igel , Lars Maaløe , Zheng-Hua Tan

This study addresses automatic transliteration from Tajik (Cyrillic script) to Persian (Perso-Arabic script). We present a curated, lexicographically verified parallel corpus of 52,152 Tajik--Persian words and short phrases, compiled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mullosharaf K. Arabov

Coreference resolution, critical for identifying textual entities referencing the same entity, faces challenges in pronoun resolution, particularly identifying pronoun antecedents. Existing methods often treat pronoun resolution as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hassan Haji Mohammadi , Alireza Talebpour , Ahmad Mahmoudi Aznaveh , Samaneh Yazdani

Natural language correction has the potential to help language learners improve their writing skills. While approaches with separate classifiers for different error types have high precision, they do not flexibly handle errors such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Ziang Xie , Anand Avati , Naveen Arivazhagan , Dan Jurafsky , Andrew Y. Ng

Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian…

This paper presents an approach to spelling correction in agglutinative languages that is based on two-level morphology and a dynamic programming based search algorithm. Spelling correction in agglutinative languages is significantly…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Kemal Oflazer

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems suffer significant performance degradation in noisy environments, a challenge that is especially severe for low-resource languages such as Persian. Even state-of-the-art models such as Whisper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zahra Rahmani , Hossein Sameti

Digit, letter and word recognition for a particular script has various applications in todays commercial contexts. Nevertheless, only a limited number of relevant studies have dealt with Persian scripts. In this paper, deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mehdi Bonyani , Simindokht Jahangard , Morteza Daneshmand

Toxic language detection is crucial for creating safer online environments and limiting the spread of harmful content. While toxic language detection has been under-explored in Persian, the current work compares different methods for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zahra Bokaei , Walid Magdy , Bonnie Webber

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fast-growing field that aims to fill the communication gaps between the hearing-impaired and people without hearing loss. Existing solutions for Persian Sign Language (PSL) are limited to word-level…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Amirparsa Salmankhah , Amirreza Rajabi , Negin Kheirmand , Ali Fadaeimanesh , Amirreza Tarabkhah , Amirreza Kazemzadeh , Hamed Farbeh

In this paper, we explore the artificial generation of typographical errors based on real-world statistics. We first draw on a small set of annotated data to compute spelling error statistics. These are then invoked to introduce errors into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Kshitij Shah , Gerard de Melo

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications. However, limited data and the unique language features of specific domains, such as low-resource languages, significantly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Amin Robatian , Mohammad Hajipour , Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Fatemeh Rajabi , Sajjad Amini , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami , Iman Gholampour

Despite impressive multilingual capabilities, large language models (LLMs) remain poorly evaluated on literary knowledge in non-English languages. We introduce PersLitEval, a benchmark of 4,514 Persian literature multiple-choice questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruhallah Niazi , Faeze Ghorbanpour , Alexander Fraser

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for measuring the degree of similarity between categories of two pieces of Persian text, which were published as descriptions of two separate advertisements. We built an appropriate dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hossein Keshavarz , Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi , Mohammad Izadi

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

Pronoun resolution is a challenging subset of an essential field in natural language processing called coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is about finding all entities in the text that refers to the same real-world entity. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Hassan Haji Mohammadi , Alireza Talebpour , Ahmad Mahmoudi Aznaveh , Samaneh Yazdani

Large language models (LLMs) have made great progress in classification and text generation tasks. However, they are mainly trained on English data and often struggle with low-resource languages. In this study, we explore adding a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Samin Mahdizadeh Sani , Pouya Sadeghi , Thuy-Trang Vu , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Gholamreza Haffari