Education

Ph.D. Student in Natural Language Processing University of Melbourne, Australia.

Thesis: Developing Advanced Processing Tools for Under-Resourced Languages Focusing on Morphological Features (Advisors: Dr. Ekaterina Vylomova and Dr. Eduard Hovy)

M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics University of Tehran, Iran.

Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Spell-checker for Kurdish Language (Advisor: Dr. Hadi Veisi)

Courses: Computational Linguistics, Corpus Design and Management, Machine Learning, Formal Syntax, General and Experimental Phonetics, Morphology, Natural Language Processing, Ontology, Phonology, Semantics, Statistical methods in NLP

B.Sc. Geomatics Engineering Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

GIS Research Project: Site Selection for Urban Rescue Stations with Fuzzy Methods.

Courses: GIS, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Geodesy, Surveying, Project Planning.

Research interests

• Computational Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Machine Learning
• Comutational Morphology
• Spell-checker
• Weighted Finite-State Transducers
• Corpus Linguistics
• Kurdish Language
• Phonology

NLP Projects

• AsoSpell, Central Kurdish Spell-checker, developed based on my master’s thesis, with a business model and online payment in three currencies
• AsoSoft Library, Open-source library for Kurdish language processing tasks, such as transliterator, normalizer, and sorter
• VejinBooks, The online Kurdish literary text corpus, collected by a group of 90+ contributors (administrator, developer and editor)
• VejinLex, The online Kurdish Dictionaries collection (administrator, developer)
• Kurdinus, JavaScript tools for normalization and transliteration of Kurdish texts (developer)
• CKMorph, Central Kurdish Morphological Analayzer
• Kurdish Grapheme-to-Phoneme convertor
• Kurdish Poem Meter Classifier
• AsoSoft’s Corpus Tools, A fast, small, and portable Windows application for searching and extracting data in large text corpora, with regex and right-to-left support

Publication

Journal Papers:

1. Automatic Meter Classification of Kurdish Poems (2023), PLoS ONE 18(2): e0280263.
   Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi
2. CKMorph: A Two-Level Morphological Analayzer for Central Kurdish (2023), International Journal of Digital Humanities, pp.1-46.
   Morteza Naserzade, Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi, Hawre Hosseini, Mohammad MohammadAmini
3. Automated Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Central Kurdish based on Optimality Theory (2021), Computer Speech & Language, 70, 101222.
   Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi
4. Jira: a Kurdish Speech Recognition System, Designing and Building Speech Corpus and Pronunciation Lexicon (2020), Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 1–25.
   Hadi Veisi, Hawre Hosseini, Moahammad MohammadAmini, Wirya Fathy, Aso Mahmudi

Conference Papers:

5. Revisiting and Amending Central Kurdish Data on UniMorph 4.0 (2023), Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop.
   Sina Ahmadi, Aso Mahmudi
6. Automated Kurdish Text Normalization (2019), Second International Conference of Kurdish Language and Literature, Sanandaj, Iran.
   Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi, Mohammad MohammadAmini, Hawre Hosseini
7. Challenges in Standardization of Kurdish Language: A Corpus based approach (2019), Second International Conference of Kurdish Language and Literature, Sanandaj, Iran.
   Mohammad MohammadAmini, Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi, Hawre Hosseini

Book chapters:

8. Acoustic analysis of Central Kurdish vowels among speakers from Mahabad, Marivan, and Sarvabad (2022), Edited by M. Fattahi and A. Pirhayati, Jašn-nāme-ye Dr. Mahmood Bijankhan, pp. 203-215, Tehran, Ketābe Bahār. ISBN: 978-622-7067-52-1.
   Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi

Teaching Assistance Experiences

University of Tehran:

• Spring 2019: Intro to Computational Linguistics
• Fall 2018: Intro to Computational Linguistics for General Linguistics students
• Spring 2018: Intro to Computational Linguistics

Research Experiences

• Kurdish Text Processing, AsoSoft Research Group
• Natural Language Processing, Data and Signal Processing Lab

Skills

Software Development

C#, Python, SQL, C++

Web Development

JavaScript, ASP.NET Core (MVC and API), PHP, MS SQL Server, XML, JSON

Machine Learning and NLP

HFST, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, NLTK, SpaCy, SPARQL, PRAAT

Surveying Engineering

Civil 3D, AutoCAD, ArcGIS

Office

Latex, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop

Language Skills

English (IELTS Band 7), Kurdish (native, professional), Persian (fluent), Classical Arabic (fair)

Volunteer Experience

• Founder and first administrator of Central Kurdish Wikipedia (ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:ئاسۆ)
• Digitizer of historical and rare books (archive.org/details/@aso_mahmudi)
• Map Maker in OpenStreetMap project (openstreetmap.org/user/ئاسۆ)

Places I have lived or worked in