Resources for Persian

Machine translation systems

Proprietary

• The Shiraz project (Persian -> English)

Morphology tools

Free software

• Perstem - Persian stemmer, light morphological analyzer, and character set converter.
• Morphological dictionary — compiled using lttoolbox.

Corpora

• Bijankhan corpus
• CALLFRIEND Farsi (speech)
• Hamshahri corpus
• Persian speech database Farsdat

Parser

Free software

• Persian dictionaries, by Jon Dehdari, for the Link-Grammar parser. These require the Perstem stemming package, above.

Bibliography

• Dehdari, Jon, and Deryle Lonsdale. 2008. A link grammar parser for Persian. In Karimi, S., Samiian, V., and Stilo, D., editors, Aspects of Iranian Linguistics, volume 1. Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN: 978-18-471-8639-3 (BIB)

• Feili, H. and G. Ghassem-Sani (2004) "An Application of Lexicalized Grammars in English-Persian Translation". Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), 24-27 Aug. 2004, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, pp. 596-600. PDF
• Megerdoomian, K. (2000) "Unification-Based Persian Morphology". Proceedings of CICLing 2000, Alexander Gelbukh, Center of Investigation on Computation-IPN, Mexico, 2000. PDF
• Megerdoomian, K. (2004) "Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Persian". COLING 2004 Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages. Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian editors, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004, pgs. 35-41. PDF

See also

• Resources for Tajik

External links

• the Jon safari (link parser, small lexicon, stemmer, morphological analysis tools)