aranemini/central-kurdish-correction-table

Central Kurdish Orthographic Correction Table

This repository contains a correction table designed to standardize Central Kurdish (Sorani) script for speech and language technology applications.

Orthographic variation is a major challenge in Kurdish NLP. Different spellings and writing conventions for the same words can introduce inconsistencies in ASR training, evaluation, and downstream NLP systems.

This table provides mappings from non-standard or inconsistent forms to their standardized Central Kurdish representations.

The file co.txt is a tab-separated file (TSV):

original standardized ABC ئەی. بی. سی ANC ئەی. ئێن. سی

Purpose

The correction table can be used for:

• —Kurdish text normalization
• —ASR evaluation standardization
• —Speech translation preprocessing
• —Reducing orthographic variation

Sources

Part of this correction table was extracted and adapted from:

English to Central Kurdish Speech Translation: Corpus Creation, Evaluation, and Orthographic Standardization

@inproceedings{mohammadamini-etal-2026-english,
  title={English to Central Kurdish Speech Translation:
  Corpus Creation, Evaluation, and Orthographic Standardization},
  author={Mohammadamini, Mohammad and Jaff, Daban and
  Crego, Josep and Tahon, Marie and Laurent, Antoine},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources
  and Evaluation Conference},
  year={2026},
  pages={5578--5587},
  doi={10.63317/4jy562hboezr},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.436/}
}

@article{veisi2022jira,
  title={Jira: a Central Kurdish speech recognition system, designing and building speech corpus and pronunciation lexicon},
  author={Veisi, Hadi and Hosseini, Hawre and MohammadAmini, Mohammad and Fathy, Wirya and Mahmudi, Aso},
  journal={Language Resources and Evaluation},
  volume={56},
  pages={917--941},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/s10579-022-09594-4}
}