Project Overview
A curated overview of verified work on automatic text summarization involving Kurdish. The literature includes the KurdSum news benchmark, extractive summarization of long-form Sorani Kurdish research documents, and LR-Sum, a multilingual resource that represents Kurmanji and Sorani as separate Kurdish varieties.
Technologies & Methods
Applications
- Kurdish news summarization
- Research-document summarization
- Low-resource multilingual summarization
Related Publications
KurdSum: A new benchmark dataset for the Kurdish text summarization
Soran Badawi (2023)
Introduces KurdSum, a Kurdish news summarization benchmark containing more than 40,000 texts paired with human-written summaries. The study evaluates four extractive approaches (LexRank, TextRank, …
Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) for Research Documents in Sorani Kurdish
Rondik Hadi Abdulrahman , Hossein Hassani (2025)
Develops an extractive automatic text summarization approach for long-form Sorani Kurdish research documents. The study uses a corpus of 231 scientific papers from four academic departments, applies …
LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages
Chester Palen-Michel , Constantine Lignos (2023)
Introduces LR-Sum, an openly licensed multilingual summarization dataset containing human-written summaries for 40 languages. Kurdish is represented as separate Kurmanji and Sorani varieties. The …
Related Datasets
KurdSum Dataset
Size: 40,000+ article-summary pairs
A Kurdish news summarization benchmark with more than 40,000 news texts paired with human-written summaries. It was introduced with the KurdSum study and is publicly archived in Mendeley Data.
Sorani Kurdish Research-Document Summarization Corpus
Size: 231 research documents
A research corpus assembled for automatic summarization experiments from 231 Sorani Kurdish scientific papers across four academic departments. Public repository availability and a standalone dataset …
LR-Sum
Size: 40 languages; Kurdish represented as separate Kurmanji and Sorani subsets
A multilingual summarization dataset derived from Voice of America newswire with human-written summaries for 40 languages. It includes separate Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish subsets and is released …