PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Happy to share that I'll be presenting my paper, "Introducing PerMet 1.0: A Metaphor-Annotated Corpus for Persian," at #LREC2026.
📅 Thursday, 14 May 2026, 11:20-11:40 (GMT+2)
📍 Session O18: Lexicon and Semantics I (Auditorium Mallorca)
If you have at least lower intermediate level Persian, come to Yerevan this summer and I will teach you how to understand Bāburnāma and other texts in the original Chaghatay already at our second session. Sign up here https://t.co/sXCcNF7ztI
New paper at #LREC2026 🎉
We introduce ACID, a cross-cultural dataset to study classism in NLP.
🔍 Key findings: pervasive negative stereotypes especially concerning morality, frequent offensiveness, and strong individual blame.
🔗 https://t.co/0qmjzUPZTS
PerMet 1.0 is a new metaphor-annotated corpus for Persian (~120k tokens, 5 registers), annotated using the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU).
📜 Paper: https://t.co/y601Bd0L4s
💻 Data: https://t.co/mklguvnmZ3
PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Happy to share that I'll be presenting my paper, "Introducing PerMet 1.0: A Metaphor-Annotated Corpus for Persian," at #LREC2026.
📅 Thursday, 14 May 2026, 11:20-11:40 (GMT+2)
📍 Session O18: Lexicon and Semantics I (Auditorium Mallorca)
A few days after an Israeli attack that claimed his wife’s life and left him critically wounded, Dr. Kamal Kharazi succumbed to his injuries.
He was a seasoned, veteran diplomat who served as Iran’s Foreign Minister during President Khatami’s tenure—the very period when Iran advanced the idea of “Dialogue among Civilisations” as a direct counterpoint to the notion of a “Clash of Civilisations.”
Israel targets diplomats because it thrives on bloodshed and destruction.
Dr. Alireza Zarei, Mathematics Professor and Head of IT Center at Sharif University of Technology, just held his "Randomized Algorithms" class for graduate students inside his office destroyed by American and Israeli crimes.
#SharifUniversity#IRAN
I am heartbroken yet not the least surprised. Of course the US and Israel would commit yet another war crime and bomb Sharif University. This is where Iran’s greatest minds are produced. Nothing instills more fear in Iran’s adversaries than the promise of its young people.
Abolfazl Dehnavi, a humanitarian aid worker with the Iranian Red Crescent in Mobarakeh, Isfahan, has been martyred in a U.S.–Israeli attack.
He is now the fourth Red Crescent aid worker killed while carrying out life-saving duties amid this ongoing war.
Our paper on metaphor identification using LLMs is finally out open access in Applied Corpus Linguistics!
https://t.co/KXHwXuzcBL
Code & data: https://t.co/0yu6KhWGfx
Funeral of street sweeper Hassan Kheiran in Tehran. He was in his 50s, originally from Bandar Anzali. He had no wife or children, and his parents passed away a few years ago
but today, he was not alone. His friends came.
From now on, he’ll live on in our hearts
"The war in the Middle East" is an orientalist framing of an illegal invasion of a sovereign country-Iran- in the middle of 'negotiations' by the United States and the apartheid Israeli regime, seeking to blame 'both sides' & portray the region as inherently a hub of violence 1/2