Plagiarism which is defined as “the wrongful appropriation of other writers’ or authors’ works and ideas without citing or informing them” poses a major challenge to knowledge spread publication. Plagiarism has been placed in four categories of direct, paraphrasing (rewriting), translation, and combinatory. This paper addresses translational plagiarism which is sometimes referred to as cross-li...

In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in the preverbal domain corresponding to ”long-before-short“. They furthermore showed that the position of the direct object mainly depends on its degree of determination, and put into question the broadly accepted...

Abstract The immensity of the corpus and diversity genres Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian garb is remarkable, comprising a wide-ranging multitude from translations Tanakh rabbinic works to chronicles, lexicographies, religious poetry, medieval Hebrew poems, large non-Jewish literature transcribed script. Yet, literary corpora remain incompletely catalogued as well unsatisfactorily studie...

Abstract Drawing on a growing body of research the interface between corpus linguistics and second/foreign language testing assessment, we adopted Peykare , large-scale, annotated, Persian written resource to evaluate content (i.e., coverage typicality) construct validity proficiency test developed for certification in as foreign (PFL) non-native speakers. Designed at Research Center Intelligen...

teaching the grammatical tenses is considered to be one of the most controversial challenges among teachers and researchers in teaching persian language to non-persian speakers. prioritizing the tenses in accordance with their frequency could greatly facilitate the process of language learning. in this research, a comparison has been made between the frequency of the tenses in spoken and writte...

This paper introduces the first pattern-based Persian Temporal Relation Classifier (PTRC) that finds the type of temporal relations between pairs of events in the Persian texts. The proposed system uses support vector machines (SVMs) equipped by combinations of simple, convolution tree, and string subsequence kernels (SSK). In order to evaluate the algorithm, we have developed a Persian TimeBan...

Article History The paper received on: 01/01/2015 Accepted after peerreview on: 21/02/2015 Published on: 07/03/2015 Translation has a crucial role in human life. Despite the importance of the influence of ideology in translation, there is lack of research in this area. This study tries to investigate the influence of ideology on translations from English into Persian. The corpus consists of “A ...

background and aim: in spite of the effect of the left hemisphere domination on first langu­age acquisition in human, studies suggest activi­ties and the role of both hemispheres in learning second language. therefore learning a second language requires more communication between the two hemispheres. regarding the role of the corpus callosum as the only data-centric inter­face between the two h...

We present the Uppsala Persian Dependency Treebank (UPDT) with a syntactic annotation scheme based on Stanford Typed Dependencies. The treebank consists of 6,000 sentences and 151,671 tokens with an average sentence length of 25 words. The data is from different genres, including newspaper articles and fiction, as well as technical descriptions and texts about culture and art, taken from the op...