Project Overview
A curated review of existing Kurdish digital dictionary and lexical-resource research, including electronic lexicography, WordNet-aligned semantic resources, machine-readable lexicons, morphological dictionaries and supporting lexical tools across Kurdish varieties.
Technologies & Methods
Applications
- Digital Dictionaries
- Lexical Research
- NLP Resources
- Language Technology
Related Publications
Towards Electronic Lexicography for the Kurdish Language
Sina Ahmadi , Hossein Hassani , (2019)
A study of electronic lexicography for Kurdish that converts lexicographic material into structured machine-readable resources using OntoLex-Lemon and RDF, covering Sorani, Kurmanji and Hawrami …
Creating an Electronic Lexicon for the Under-resourced Southern Varieties of Kurdish Language
Zahra Azin , Sina Ahmadi (2021)
Development of an electronic lexical resource for Southern Kurdish from the Başûr dictionary using OntoLex-Lemon, with exploration of lexical alignment with Sorani Kurdish.
Towards Building KurdNet, the Kurdish WordNet
, Sina Ahmadi , Shahin Salavati , Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili (2014)
Development of KurdNet, a Kurdish lexical-semantic resource aligned with Princeton WordNet concepts. The implemented prototype focuses on Sorani Kurdish and uses bilingual lexical material and corpus …
Semi-Automatic Development of KurdNet, The Kurdish WordNet
A methodological study identifying limitations of the existing KurdNet prototype and proposing a semi-automatic approach for further development of the Kurdish lexical-semantic database.
A Tokenization System for the Kurdish Language
Sina Ahmadi (2020)
A Kurdish tokenization system using lexical resources and morphological analysis to address token boundaries, compounds and orthographic variation in Sorani and Kurmanji.
Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis
Sina Ahmadi (2021)
Development of a Sorani Kurdish Hunspell resource combining a morphosyntactically annotated lexicon with morphological rules for spelling correction, stemming and morphological analysis.
Related Datasets
KurdishLex / Kurdish Lexicographical Resources
Published: January 1, 2019 | Size: Repository reports 5,527 Sorani, 4,053 Kurmanji, 1,170 Hawrami and 11,026 Southern Kurdish headwords
Machine-readable Kurdish lexical resources represented with OntoLex-Lemon. The expanded repository includes Sorani, Kurmanji, Hawrami and Southern Kurdish components. Repository headword totals differ …
KurdNet - Kurdish WordNet
Published: January 1, 2014 | Size: Minimal alignment: 2,145 synsets and 6,248 literals; maximal alignment: 3,801 synsets and 17,990 literals
A Sorani Kurdish lexical-semantic resource aligned with WordNet. The repository provides minimal and maximal alignments; these are alternative alignments and their counts should not be added together.
KurdishHunspell Annotated Lexicons
Published: January 1, 2021 | Size: Repository update reports 33,856 Sorani and 43,945 Kurmanji tagged entries; a later update reports 43,328 Zazaki tagged lexical entries
Hunspell-compatible Kurdish lexicons containing lemmas or stems, morphosyntactic information and morphological rules. The resource began with Sorani and later repository updates added Kurmanji and …
KurdishTokenization Lexical Bundle
Published: January 1, 2020 | Size: Lexicon entry total not verified
Lexical resources accompanying Kurdish tokenization research, including annotated lemmas and compound or multiword variants derived in part from FreeDict and Wîkîferheng.
FreeDict Kurdish-English Dictionary
Size: 5,208 headwords
A Kurdish-to-English bilingual dictionary distributed through the FreeDict project. The official listing reports version 1.2 and 5,208 headwords. The precise Kurdish variety, release year and exact …
Wîkîferheng / Kurdish Wiktionary Structured Resource
Published: September 1, 2026 | Size: Approximately 525,000 Kurmanji senses and 6,900 Sorani senses in the reviewed extraction
Community-maintained Kurdish Wiktionary lexical content with machine-readable extraction available through Kaikki/Wiktextract. Retrieved extraction figures report approximately 525,000 Kurmanji senses …
IT Dictionary - Zanistperweranî Kurd
Published: January 1, 2011 | Size: 1,721 entries
An English-to-Central-Kurdish information-technology terminology dictionary digitized in VejînLex. VejînLex reports 1,721 entries. A bulk-download format, public API and dataset reuse license were not …