# Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06374 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.06374/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 72 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [A Rule-based Kurdish Text Transliteration System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.10278/) (2018)
- [Towards Machine Translation for the Kurdish Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.06041/) (2020)
- [Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10652/) (2020)
- [Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-checker for Sorani Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.10763/) (2018)
- [A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03942/) (2021)
- [Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks for Spelling and Grammatical Error Correction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.00660/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [CKMorph: A Comprehensive Morphological Analyzer for Central Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.08615/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Spell checking and morphological analysis are two fundamental tasks in text and natural language processing and are addressed in the early stages of the development of language technology. Despite the previous efforts, there is no progress in open-source to create such tools for Sorani Kurdish, also known as Central Kurdish, as a less-resourced language. In this paper, we present our efforts in annotating a lexicon with morphosyntactic tags and also, extracting morphological rules of Sorani Kurdish to build a morphological analyzer, a stemmer and a spell-checking system using Hunspell. This implementation can be used for further developments in the field by researchers and also, be integrated into text editors under a publicly available license.