# Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10652 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10652/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 May 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Central Kurdish machine translation: First large scale parallel corpus and experiments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09325/) (2021)
- [A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03942/) (2021)
- [Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.06374/) (2021)
- [CKMorph: A Comprehensive Morphological Analyzer for Central Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.08615/) (2021)
- [The Morphological Core of Dungan: A Two-Dialect Finite-State Model and a Multi-Genre Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.28766/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Morphological analysis is the study of the formation and structure of words. It plays a crucial role in various tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) such as machine translation and text and speech generation. Kurdish is a less-resourced multi-dialect Indo-European language with highly inflectional morphology. In this paper, as the first attempt of its kind, the morphology of the Kurdish language (Sorani dialect) is described from a computational point of view. We extract morphological rules which are transformed into finite-state transducers for generating and analyzing words. The result of this research assists in conducting studies on language generation for Kurdish and enhances the Information Retrieval (IR) capacity for the language while leveraging the Kurdish NLP and CL into a more advanced computational level.