Citation
If you use PersianPunc in your research, please cite:
@inproceedings{kalahroodi-etal-2026-persianpunc,
title = "{P}ersian{P}unc: A Large-Scale Dataset and {BERT}-Based Approach for {P}ersian Punctuation Restoration",
author = "Kalahroodi, Mohammad Javad Ranjbar and
Faili, Heshaam and
Shakery, Azadeh",
editor = "Merchant, Rayyan and
Megerdoomian, Karine",
booktitle = "The Proceedings of the First Workshop on {NLP} and {LLM}s for the {I}ranian Language Family",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.silkroadnlp-1.11/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.silkroadnlp-1.11",
pages = "105--113",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-371-5",
abstract = "Punctuation restoration is essential for improving the readability and downstream utility of automatic speech recognition (ASR) outputs, yet remains underexplored for Persian despite its importance. We introduce PersianPunc, a large-scale, high-quality dataset of 17 million samples for Persian punctuation restoration, constructed through systematic aggregation and filtering of existing textual resources. We formulate punctuation restoration as a token-level sequence labeling task and fine-tune ParsBERT to achieve strong performance. Through comparative evaluation, we demonstrate that while large language models can perform punctuation restoration, they suffer from critical limitations: over-correction tendencies that introduce undesired edits beyond punctuation insertion (particularly problematic for speech-to-text pipelines) and substantially higher computational requirements. Our lightweight BERT-based approach achieves a macro-averaged F1 score of 91.33{\%} on our test set while maintaining efficiency suitable for real-time applications. We make our dataset and model publicly available to facilitate future research in Persian NLP and provide a scalable framework applicable to other morphologically rich, low-resource languages."
}
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