Christopher C. Heffner, Laura C. Dilley, J. Devin McAuley, and Mark A. Pitt Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Psych...

FarsiSum is an attempt to create an automatic text summarization system for Persian. The system is implemented as a HTTP client/server application written in Perl. It uses modules implemented in an existing summarizer geared towards the Germanic languages, a Persian stop-list in Unicode format and a small set of heuristic rules.

A noteworthy feature of Yiddish present tense verbal inflection is that, unlike many other Germanic languages, Yiddish has virtually no irregular stem vowel changes. Whereas Middle High German (the source language for Yiddish verbal inflection1) had numerous subclasses of verbs with different patterns of present tense vowel alternations, Yiddish verbs have the same vowel for all persons and num...