Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

* indicates equal contribution.

1. Towards an Integrative Approach for Making Sense Distinctions
   John P. McCrae, Theodorus Fransen, Sina Ahmadi, Paul Buitelaar and Koustava Goswami
   (under review) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
   [bib]

2. NUIG at TIAD 2021: Cross-lingual Word Embeddings for Translation Inference
   Sina Ahmadi, Atul Kr. Ojha, Shubhanker Banerjee and John P. McCrae
   In Proceedings of the Translation Inference Across Dictionaries Workshop (TIAD 2021)
   [Paper] [Slides] [bib]

3. The ELEXIS system for monolingual sense linking in dictionaries
   John P. McCrae, Sina Ahmadi, Seung-bin Yim and Lenka Bajčetić
   In Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography (eLex 2021)
   [Paper] [Demo] [bib]

4. An Evaluation of Definition Paradigms in Lexicography for Word Sense Alignment
   Sina Ahmadi, John P. McCrae
   In Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography (eLex 2021)
   [Paper] [bib]

5. Word Sense Alignment as a Classification Problem
   Sina Ahmadi and John P. McCrae
   The 11th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2021)
   [Paper] [Slides] [Presentation] [bib]

1. Globalex Workshop on Linked Lexicography
   Ilan Kernerman, Simon Krek, John P. McCrae, Jorge Gracia, Sina Ahmadi and Besim Kabashi
   European Language Resources Association (ELRA) - LREC 2020 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
   [Paper] [bib]

2. A Multilingual Evaluation Dataset for Monolingual Word Sense Alignment
   Sina Ahmadi, John P. McCrae, Sanni Nimb, Fahad Khan, Monica Monachini, Bolette S. Pedersen, Thierry Declerck, Tanja Wissik, Andrea Bellandi, Irene Pisani, Thomas Troelsgård, Sussi Olsen, Simon Krek, Veronika Lipp, Tamás Váradi, László Simon, András Győrffy, Carole Tiberius, Tanneke Schoonheim, Yifat Ben Moshe, Maya Rudich, Raya Abu Ahmad, Dorielle Lonke, Kira Kovalenko, Margit Langemets, Jelena Kallas, Oksana Dereza, Theodorus Fransen, David Cillessen, David Lindemann, Mikel Alonso, Ana Salgado, José Luis Sancho, Rafael-J. Ureña-Ruiz, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Zara Kancheva, Ivaylo Radev, Ranka Stanković, Andrej Perdih, and Dejan Gabrovšek
   The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
   [Paper] [Resource] [bib]

3. Towards Automatic Linking of Lexicographic Data: the case of a historical and a modern Danish dictionary
   Sina Ahmadi and Sanni Nimb and Thomas Troelsgård and John P. McCrae and Nicolai H. Sørensen
   The XIX EURALEX International Congress
   [Paper] [Slides] [bib]

4. Challenges of Word Sense Alignment: Portuguese Language Resources
   Ana Salgado, Sina Ahmadi , Alberto Simões, John McCrae, Rute Costa
   the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Building tools and infrastructure at the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
   [Paper] [Slides] [bib]

5. Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
   Patricia Martín-Chozas, Sina Ahmadi and Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
   The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
   [Paper] [Code] [bib]

1. Creating a Multilingual Terminological Resource using Linked Data: the case of archaeological domain in the Italian language
   Speranza Giulia, Carola Carlino and Sina Ahmadi
   The Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLiC-it 2019
   [Paper] [Poster] [Code] [bib]

2. The ELEXIS Interface for Interoperable Lexical Resources
   John P. McCrae, Carole Tiberius, Anas Fahad Khan, Ilan Kernerman, Thierry Declerck, Simon Krek, Monica Monachini and Sina Ahmadi
   In Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography (eLex 2019)
   [Paper] [bib]

3. CoFiF: A Corpus of Financial Reports in French Language
   Sina Ahmadi* and Tobias Daudert
   In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
   [Paper] [Slides] [Resource] [bib]

4. NUIG at the FinSBD Task: Sentence Boundary Detection for Noisy Financial PDFs in English and French
   Tobias Daudert and Sina Ahmadi
   In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
   [Paper] [Poster] [bib]

5. Inferring translation candidates for multilingual dictionary generation with multi-way neural machine translation
   Mihael Arcan, Daniel Torregrosa, Sina Ahmadi and John P. McCrae
   In Proceedings of the Translation Inference Across Dictionaries Workshop (TIAD 2019)
   [Paper] [Slides] [Poster] [bib]

6. TIAD 2019 Shared Task: Leveraging knowledge graphs with neural machine translation for automatic multilingual dictionary generation
   Mihael Arcan, Daniel Torregrosa, Sina Ahmadi and John P. McCrae
   Shared Task on Translation Inference Across Dictionaries
   [Paper] [Code] [bib]

7. Lexical sense alignment using weighted bipartite b-matching
   Sina Ahmadi, Mihael Arcan and John P. McCrae
   In Proceedings of the LDK 2019 Workshops
   [Paper] [Poster] [Code] [bib]

1. On lexicographical networks
   Sina Ahmadi, Mihael Arcan and John McCrae
   In Workshop on eLexicography: Between Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence
   [Paper] [Poster] [bib]

2. Learning Noun Cases Using Sequential Neural Networks
   Sina Ahmadi arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03996
   [Paper] [bib]

1. Attention-based encoder-decoder networks for spelling and grammatical error correction
   Sina Ahmadi arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00660
   [Paper] [Poster] [Code] [bib]

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Kurdish language processing

1. Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis
   Sina Ahmadi
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06374
   [Paper] [Code] [bib]

2. A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology
   Sina Ahmadi
   arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03942
   [Paper] [bib]

3. Creating an Electronic Lexicon for the Under-resourced Southern Varieties of Kurdish Language
   Zahra Azin and Sina Ahmadi
   In Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography (eLex 2021)
   [Paper] [Poster] [Resource] [bib]

4. On the Current State of Kurdish Language Processing
   Sina Ahmadi
   Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL-5) Conference
   [Paper] [bib]

1. KLPT - Kurdish Language Processing Toolkit
   Sina Ahmadi
   Proceedings of Second Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS) - EMNLP 2020
   [Paper] [Poster] [Slides] [Presentation] [Code] [bib]

2. Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language Family
   Sina Ahmadi
   Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2020)
   [Paper] [Poster] [Resource] [bib]

3. A Tokenization System for the Kurdish Language
   Sina Ahmadi
   Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2020)
   [Paper] [Poster] [Code] [bib]

4. Towards Machine Translation for the Kurdish Language
   Sina Ahmadi and Mariam Masoud
   Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2020) at AACL-IJCNLP
   [Paper] [Slides] [Presentation] [Code] [bib]

5. A Corpus of the Sorani Kurdish Folkloric Lyrics
   Sina Ahmadi and Hossein Hassani and Kamaladdin Abedi
   In Proceedings of the 1st Joint Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages ({SLTU}) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL) Workshop at the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
   [Paper] [Resource] [bib]

6. (under review) Leveraging Multilingual News Websites for Building a Kurdish Parallel Corpus
   Sina Ahmadi and Hossein Hassani and Daban Q. Jaff
   ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
   [preprint] [Resource] [bib]

7. (under review) Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish
   Sina Ahmadi and Hossein Hassani
   ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
   [preprint] [bib]

1. Towards Electronic Lexicography for the Kurdish Language
   Sina Ahmadi, Hossein Hassani and John P. McCrae
   In Proceedings of Sixth Biennial Conference on Electronic Lexicography (eLex 2019)
   [Paper] [Poster] [Resource] [bib]

2. Developing a Fine-grained Corpus for a Less-resourced Language: the case of Kurdish
   Roshna Abdulrahman, Hossein Hassani and Sina Ahmadi
   WiNLP ACL 2019
   [Paper] [Poster] [Resource] [bib]

3. A Rule-Based Kurdish Text Transliteration System
   Sina Ahmadi
   ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
   [Paper] [Code] [bib]

1. Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-checker for Sorani Kurdish
   Shahin Salavati and Sina Ahmadi
   In Proceedings of the 8th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics
   [Paper] [bib]

1. Towards building Kurdnet, the Kurdish Wordnet
   Purya Aliabadi, Sina Ahmadi, Shahin Salavati and Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili
   In Proceedings of the Seventh Global Wordnet Conference
   [Paper] [Resource] [bib]