sati is a sanskrit word which means chaste and continent. it also refers to a tradition and the ceremony in which a widow burns herself because of her husband’s death. the history of this indian tradition refers back to 1000 to 500 years b.c. and was prohibited in 1828. persian poets, particularly those who were living in india, have benefited this hindu tradition in their poetry and created de...

to have an, idea about the relation between the length of birth interval and lactation, and birth control program this study have been done. the material for such analysis was nomad women's fertility history that was in their reproductive period (15-44). the material itself was gathered through a health survey. the main sample was composed of 2,165 qualified women, of whom 49 due to previous or...

This article focuses on the way nitchevo, a nineteenth-century Russian borrowing, was adopted into English language. In order to investigate history of word, six digital text archives were considered. The results research are promising: not only do they allow one trace antedatings for both senses, which updates treatment nitchevo in Oxford Dictionary (OED), but also shed light its semantic deve...

Using a corpus of Medieval Spanish text, we examine factors affecting the Modern Standard Spanish outcome of the initial /f/ in Latin FV-words. Regression analyses reveal that the frequency of a word's use in extralexical phonetic reducing environments and lexical stress patterns significantly predict the modern distribution of f-([f]) and h-(Ø) in the Spanish lexicon of FV-words. Quantificatio...

This paper describes experimentswith a PLSA-based language model for conversational telephone speech. This model uses a long-range history and exploits topic information in the test text to adjust probabilities of test words. The PLSA-based model was found to lower test set perplexity over a traditional word+class-based -gram by 13% (optimistic estimate using a reference transcript as history) ...

 SUST, ICERIE. Abstract: — In this paper, we describe a research method that generates Bangla word clusters on the basis of relating to meaning in language and contextual similarity. The importance of word clustering is in parts of speech (POS) tagging, word sense disambiguation, text classification, recommender system, spell checker, grammar checker, knowledge discover and for many others Nat...