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%T Extending Uniform Meaning Representation to Persian: The First Corpus Resource
%A Nassajian, Minoo
%A Zeman, Daniel
%Y Zhao, Jin
%Y Post, Claire Benet
%Y Hoefer, Elizabeth
%S Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026) @ LREC 2026
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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[Extending Uniform Meaning Representation to Persian: The First Corpus Resource](https://aclanthology.org/2026.dmr-1.16/) (Nassajian & Zeman, DMR 2026)

• Extending Uniform Meaning Representation to Persian: The First Corpus Resource (Nassajian & Zeman, DMR 2026)

ACL

• Minoo Nassajian and Daniel Zeman. 2026. Extending Uniform Meaning Representation to Persian: The First Corpus Resource. In Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 172–182, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).