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Linguistic Data-Driven Approach to Persian Language Pedagogy: Practical Application to Compound Verbs
Karine Megerdoomian
Persian language teaching
There exists a significant disconnect between linguistic research and pedagogical practice in the Persian classroom. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low-resource NLP.
Presentation
2025
AI-enabled narrative analysis for Persian and Kurdish
Karine Megerdoomian and Emmanuel Garcia
Persian NLP
Narratives are foundational to human expression across cultures. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Proceedings Article
2025
We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof
Nikta Gohari Sadr, Sahar Heidariasl, Karine Megerdoomian, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Ali Emami
Persian NLP, General AI
TaarofBench is the first benchmark for Persian taarof, a complex politeness system missing from existing cultural AI tests. Across 450 scenarios, LLMs underperform humans by 40–48% and often misinterpret politeness. Fine-tuning improves cultural alignment, highlighting the need for culturally aware AI.
Technical Report
2024
Responsible AI Mitigation Strategies
Karine Megerdoomian
Responsible AI
Responsible AI is an umbrella term used to describe an approach that considers the business, legal, and ethical choices in the design, development, deployment, and adoption of AI. Learn how this advances responsible, transparent, and inclusive AI practice.
Proceedings Article
2023
Induction of Narrative Models for Legal Case Elicitation
Karl Branting, Sarah McLeod, Bryant Park and Karine Megerdoomian
Narrative Analytics
This paper proposes a new computational architecture for narrative-driven case elicitation, describes six new legal narrative corpora, and evaluates two different approaches to creating legal narrative schemas, the first using language models, and the second using event sequence alignment. See how the authors model structure, events, and time in real‑world texts.
Technical Report
2023
Advanced Narrative Analytics System Infrastructure (ANAnSI)
Karine Megerdoomian and Charles Horowitz
Narrative Analytics
This paper provides an in-depth description of the Advanced Narrative Analytics System Infrastructure (ANAnSI), which performs content extraction and detailed narrative analytics for knowledge discovery within a distributed high-performance system infrastructure. See how the authors model structure, events, and time in real‑world texts.
Journal Article
2023
Automated Extraction of Substance Use and Co-occurring Disorders from Probation Records
Karine Megerdoomian, Charles E. Horowitz and Amy B. Marsh
Narrative Analytics, Health & AI
The authors describe the application of advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to automatically discover and analyze important information from text. See how the authors model structure, events, and time in real‑world texts.
Technical Report
2023
S&T@Scale: Understanding the global science and technology landscape
Jason Duncan, Chris Giannella, Karine Megerdoomian, Ransom Winder
Scientometrics
Over the past several decades, the S&T landscape has transformed into a more geographically distributed, more interconnected, and more dynamic arena for collaboration and knowledge exchange. Read for methods, evaluations, and why the findings matter for scalable AI systems.
Proceedings Article
2022
A Comprehensive Evaluation and Correction of the TimeBank Corpus
Mustafa Ocal, Antonela Radas, Jared Hummer, Karine Megerdoomian and Mark A. Finlayson
Narrative Analytics
TimeML is an annotation scheme for capturing temporal information in text. See how the authors model structure, events, and time in real‑world texts.
Technical Report
2022
Automated Knowledge Discovery for Online Child Pornography Offender Risk Assessment
Karine Megerdoomian, Amy Marsh and Charles Horowitz
Narrative Analytics
The effectiveness of sex offender management policies and supervision approaches relies on the ability of criminal justice professionals to accurately differentiate sexual offenders according to their risk to recidivate. Read for methods, evaluations, and why the findings matter for scalable AI systems.
Book Chapter
2020
Linguistic Competence of Persian Heritage Versus Second Language Speakers
Karine Megerdoomian
Persian language teaching, Heritage speakers
This chapter provides a review of the research previously conducted on Persian heritage linguistics, with a focus on the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Proceedings Article
2019
Automated Narrative Extraction from Administrative Records
Karine Megerdoomian, Karl Branting, Charles E. Horowitz, Amy B. Marsh, Nick Modly, Stacy J. Petersen, Eric O. Scott and Sujit B. Wariyar
Narrative Analytics
The U. See how the authors model structure, events, and time in real‑world texts.