Discovery and Processing of Persian Language ResourcesPresented byCorey MillerSenior Research Scientist

September 28, 2015

Overview

• Did You Mean? (DYM)• Dialects• Corpus• Taarof• Colloquial and Cyber

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Did You Mean? (DYM)

• Lexical Resourceso Haimo Steingasso UNO Dario Kabul Phonebooko Corpus Wordlist

• Pinglish• Morphological Analysis• Talking Dictionary

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Morphology

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Pinglish

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Persian dialects

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Tehrani and Jonub Shahri Tehrani

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https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_6JydnZbB4NBZ9Pf

Hooman Saeli, GURT 2015

Persian Corpus

• Hamshahri• Bijankhan• Dari• Blogs• LDC (conversation)• 5000 most frequent words arranged by

word family• Example sentences

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Taarof

• Routine politeness strategies• Specialized phraseology• Learning modules

o Sample videoso Reference vocabulary

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Coming soon: Colloquial and Cyber

• Diglossia• Colloquial language characterized by

specializedo Pronunciationo Morphologyo Syntaxo Vocabulary

• Cybero Vocabulary, abbreviations, technical

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For more information

ContactCorey MillerSenior Research Scientist301 226 8834cmiller@casl.umd.eduwww.casl.umd.edu

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