Projects
Entries: 12
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Analysis of Phonology and Morphology in the Kobani Dialect
A computer-aided study of a Southern Kurmanji variety spoken in Rojava
A computer-aided phonological and morphological analysis of Kobani, a Southern Kurmanji variety spoken in and around Rojava.
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Crazy Deck
A hand-designed card game, years in the making
A card game designed and built with Dominik over years of study, with a digital multiplayer version now in the works with Ānrán.
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Crazy Deck Serious Game
Course project in Interactive Game Development
A digital serious-game version of Crazy Deck with study modes (study tutorial, statistics, quiz questions during play, spaced repetition against the forgetting curve) and online multiplayer (host/client). Built as a team project in the course Interactive Game Development.
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Dialect-Aware NLP
Developing NLP solutions for Kurdish dialectal variation - and beyond
My PhD project: developing NLP solutions tailored to Kurdish dialectal variation, with the long-term goal of extending the methodology to other dialect-rich language families.
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Dialectal Filtering
Synthesising dialect-specific corpora from large noisy text collections
Matching dialectal markers in large noisy corpora to synthesise novel dialect-specific text corpora for underrepresented Kurdish varieties.
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Kurdish Interpretability
Mechanistic interpretability for low-resource Kurdish language models - KI mal anders
Applying mechanistic interpretability methods to language models trained on Kurdish - AI differently, KI mal anders ;)
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Kurdish Linguistic Variations Map
An interactive map of dialectal diversity across Kurdish varieties
An interactive map visualising dialectal diversity across Kurdish varieties, based on the Database of Kurdish Dialects (Matras, 2016).
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Kurdish Voices
Dialect-specific automatic speech recognition for Kurdish
Fine-tuning automatic speech recognition models on Kurdish dialect data to enable dialect-specific ASR solutions for low-resource spoken varieties.
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Language Ontologies & Varieties Explorer (LOVE)
A Feature Analyses Navigation tool for cross-linguistic comparison
A Feature Analyses Navigation (FUAN) tool for exploring and comparing linguistic features across language varieties and families.
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Multilingual Text As Corpus Repository
Building corpora for low-resource machine translation
A DDLitLab-funded student project building text corpora to advance machine translation of low-resource languages.
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StudyToolkitVid
A toolkit for studying human perception of video material
A DDLitLab-funded toolkit for studying human perception of video material, supporting research in audio-visual translation quality.
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Towards a Complete Mapping of Kurdish Dialectology
A comprehensive geographic and typological survey of Kurdish dialect variation
An ongoing effort to create a comprehensive interactive map of Kurdish dialect geography, continua, and mutual intelligibility.
