The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family

The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor 2026-03 Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco text conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 silkroadnlp-2026-1 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.0 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.0/ Unmasking the Factual-Conceptual Gap in Persian Language Models Alireza Sakhaeirad author Ali Ma’manpoosh author Arshia Hemmat author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 sakhaeirad-etal-2026-unmasking 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.1/ 2026-03 1 12 Benchmarking Offensive Language Detection in Persian and Pashto Zahra Bokaei author Bonnie Webber author Walid Magdy author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 bokaei-etal-2026-benchmarking 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.2/ 2026-03 13 23 Do Large Language Models Understand Double Mismatches? Evidence from Farsi Maryam Mohammadi author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 mohammadi-2026-large 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.3/ 2026-03 24 28 TajPersLexon: A Tajik–Persian Lexical Resource and Hybrid Model for Cross-Script Low-Resource NLP Mullosharaf Kurbonovich Arabov author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 arabov-2026-tajperslexon 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.4/ 2026-03 29 37 A Computational Approach to Language Contact – A Case Study of Persian Ali Basirat author Danial Namazifard author Navid Baradaran Hemmati author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 basirat-etal-2026-computational 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.5/ 2026-03 38 49 Online Polarization Detection in Persian (Farsi) Social Media Saeedeh Davoudi author Nazli Goharian author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 davoudi-goharian-2026-online 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.6/ 2026-03 50 59 ParsCORE: The Persian Corpus of Online Registers Alireza Razzaghi author Erik Henriksson author Veronika Laipalla author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 razzaghi-etal-2026-parscore 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.7/ 2026-03 60 73 PMWP: A Benchmark for Math Word Problem Solving in Persian Marzieh Abdolmaleki author Mehrnoush Shamsfard author Veronique Hoste author Els Lefever author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 abdolmaleki-etal-2026-pmwp 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.8/ 2026-03 74 82 APARSIN: A Multi-Variety Sentiment and Translation Benchmark for Iranic Languages Sadegh Jafari author Tara Azin author Farhad Roodi author Zahra Dehghani Tafti author Mehrdad Ghadrdan author Elham Vatankhahan Esfahani author Aylin Naebzadeh author Mohammadhadi Shahhosseini author Ghafoor Khan author Kazem Forghani author Danial Namazi author Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hashemi author Farhan Farsi author Mohammad Osoolian author Maede Mohammadi author Mohammad Erfan Zare author Muhammad Hasnain Khan author Muhammad Hussain author Nooreen Zaki author Joma Mohammadi author Shayan Bali author Mohammad Javad Ranjbar author Els Lefever author Veronique Hoste author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 jafari-etal-2026-aparsin 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.9/ 2026-03 83 97 One Language, Three of Its Voices: Evaluating Multilingual LLMs Across Persian, Dari, and Tajiki on Translation and Understanding Tasks Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob author Abu Bakar Siddique Mahi author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 arnob-mahi-2026-one 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.10/ 2026-03 98 104 PersianPunc: A Large-Scale Dataset and BERT-Based Approach for Persian Punctuation Restoration Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi author Heshaam Faili author Azadeh Shakery author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 kalahroodi-etal-2026-persianpunc 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.11/ 2026-03 105 113 Shughni Machine Translation Enhanced by Donor Languages Dmitry Novokshanov author Innokentiy S Humonen author Ilya Makarov author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 novokshanov-etal-2026-shughni 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.12/ 2026-03 114 120 Segmentation Strategy Matters: Benchmarking Whisper on Persian YouTube Content Reihaneh Iranmanesh author Rojin Ziaei author Joe Garman author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 iranmanesh-etal-2026-segmentation 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.13/ 2026-03 121 130 Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Classical Persian Poetry: A Culture-Aware Evaluation Soheila Ansari author Mounir Boukadoum author Fatiha Sadat author 2026-03 text The Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family Rayyan Merchant editor Karine Megerdoomian editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-371-5 ansari-etal-2026-multi 10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.14/ 2026-03 131 139