Resource scarcity along with diversity‐ both in dialect and script‐are the two primary challenges in Kurdish language processing. In this paper we aim at addressing these two problems by (i) building a text corpus for Sorani and Kurmanji, the two main dialects of Kurdish, and (ii) highlighting some of the orthographic, phonological, and morphological differences between these two dialects from statistical and rule-based perspectives.
['Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili', 'Shahin Salavati']
Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison