News & Announcements

Our workshop “SilkRoadNLP: NLP and Large Language Models for the Iranian Language Family” has been accepted for presentation at EACL 2026 in Morocco.
As the first ACL-affiliated forum dedicated to Iranian languages, SilkRoadNLP will bring together researchers working on Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and related low-resource languages to advance multilingual NLP and culturally aware AI.

Taarof is the intricate Persian art of politeness, full of indirect offers, refusals, and deference. But can today’s LLMs understand when “no” might really mean “yes”? In this paper, we introduce TaarofBench, a new benchmark that puts multilingual AI to the test.

Zoorna Institute presented new research at NACIL4 on using large language models (LLMs) for narrative analysis in Persian and Sorani Kurdish—two languages often excluded from mainstream AI.