About Daban Q. Jaff

Linguistic Resource Development for Low-Resource Languages

Daban Q. Jaff has made significant contributions to natural language processing (NLP) for minority languages, particularly within the Kurdish language family and related Iranian languages. Their research emphasizes creating foundational datasets to support machine translation and computational linguistics. Key projects include 'Towards building KurdNet, the Kurdish WordNet,' which addresses the need for lexical resources in Kurdish to advance machine translation [1]. They co-authored 'Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language Family,' transcribing and compiling data for these under-resourced languages [3]. Similarly, 'Building a Test Collection for Sorani Kurdish' leverages multilingual news for parallel corpora [4]. Recent work extends to 'ParsText: A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration,' facilitating cross-script analysis [7][8].

Rhetoric and Literary Analysis

Jaff examines persuasive language and trauma in discourse. In 'Covert Persuasion in English Advertisements and Political Speeches,' they analyze subtle rhetorical strategies [9]. Another paper, 'Social-Psychological Consequences of Post Traumatic Stress,' alongside 'Conceptualizing Trauma in Don DeLillo's Falling Man,' explores psychological impacts of trauma in literature [6].

Education and Social Coexistence

As a Language Supervisor and PhD student in education topics, Jaff engages in practical initiatives. They promoted the #Alwan Program for teaching coexistence via media coordinators [2]. Conference participation, such as 'Theoretical Linguistics at Keio: Semantics Conference,' reflects academic involvement [5]. TED Talks listing highlights Kurdish language advocacy [10].