sinaahmadi / kurdishlexicography

Lexicographical resource in Ontolex-Lemon for Kurdish

Kurdish Lexicographical Resources

This repository contains four dictionaries as follows:

• Sorani (5,527 headwords)
• Kurmanji (4,053 headwords)
• Hawrami (1,170 headwords)
• 🆕 Southern Kurdish (11,026 headwords)

The three first dictionaries were created in the KurdishLex project in 2019. Please check this paper for more information and proper citation.

More recently, we further completed this project by creating a dictionary for the Southern varieties of Kurdish spoken mainly in the regions of Kermanshah, Ilam and Lorestan. The lexicographic content is graciously provided by Ako Jalilian who compiled the Başûr Dictionary.

You can process this data using any ontology editor or framework, such as Progtégé and GraphDB.

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Citation

Please cite the following if you are using these resources:

@inproceedings{azin2021southernKurdish,
    title = "Creating an Electronic Lexicon for the Under-resourced Southern Varieties of Kurdish Language",
    author = "Azin, Zahra and Ahmadi, Sina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the seventh biennial conference on electronic lexicography (eLex)",
    month = "07",
    year = "2021"
}

@inproceedings{ahmadi2019kurdishlex,
    title = "Towards Electronic Lexicography for the {K}urdish Language",
    author = "Ahmadi, Sina and Hassani, Hossein and McCrae, John P.",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the sixth biennial conference on electronic lexicography (eLex)",
    month = "10",
    year = "2019",
    url = "https://elex.link/elex2019/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/eLex_2019_50.pdf",
    pages = "881--906",
    address= "Sintra, Portugal"
}

License

Please note that all resources are available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means that:

• You are free to Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
• You cannot redistribute the content for commercial purposes.

kurdishlexicography's Issues

Absence of Lexical Senses

Hi, I am trying to identify a well-structured ontolex-lemon lexicon and I came across your work. First of all, I would like to congratulate you on it. However, I have a doubt: each Lexical Entry have an ontolex:sense object property to an individual that is not declared as a Lexical Sense. The URI of these individuals seems also to be invalid.

Can you please explain to me why there is no definition for them? Thank you in advance.