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The Annotation Bottleneck in Persian Text NLP: Persian as an Annotation-Scarce Language

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Persian (Farsi) is often described as a low-resource language in natural language processing, but that label collapses distinct shortages into a single category. This paper argues that Persian is more precisely described as annotation-scarce, provided that the term is understood as a property of its NLP resource ecology rather than an intrinsic property of the language. The review covers 34 representative Persian text resources available by July 2026 and adds three quantitative cross-checks. First, independent web measurements place Persian among roughly the twenty most visible content languag

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