Language modeling has many applications in a large variety of domains. Performance of this model depends on its adaptation to a particular style of data. Accordingly, adaptation methods endeavour to apply syntactic and semantic characteristics of the language for language modeling. The previous adaptation methods such as family of Dirichlet class language model (DCLM) extract class of history w...

In recent years, the unit selection-based concatenative speech synthesis method using a large corpus has attracted great attention. This method provides more natural quality speech compared to the parameter driven methods. The Formant Synthesis, HNM method and use of MLSA filter are the prevalent methods for synthesizing Farsi speech. In this paper, we present the structure of a proposed unit s...

BACKGROUND Fear of childbirth may cause complications such as experiencing severe labour pain, postpartum depression, and impaired mother-fetus attachment. OBJECTIVE To validate the Farsi version of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) (versions A & B) in a sample of Iranian women. METHODS The WDE-Q (versions A & B) was translated into Farsi, and the content validi...

during the past few years, there has been an increasing recognition that internet is playing a significant role in the synthesis, the distribution and the consumption of novel psychoactive substances (nps).the aim of this study was to assess the online availability of nps in persian language websites.the google search engine was used to carry out an accurate qualitative assessment of informatio...

BACKGROUND This article is a report of psychometric testing of the Farsi version of Resources and Support for Chronic Illness Self-management (RSSM) scale. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of 160 patients with type 2 diabetes, registered with the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases' team-focused diabetes clinic, were recruited (response rate=83.7%; n=134). Parti...

Classifier fusion may generate more accurate classification than each of the basic classifiers. Fusion is often based on fixed combination rules like the product, average etc. This paper presents decision templates as classifier fusion method for the recognition of the handwritten English and Farsi numerals (1-9). The process involves extracting a feature vector on well-known image databases. T...

Portable translation devices which enable people who speak different languages to communicate with each another in voice are likely to have a far-reaching impact in both the civilian and military worlds. While long a staple of science fiction, a la the "Star Trek universal translator", devices that actually translate between languages have not been fully realized. In the last decade, however, u...

FARSI HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES

We describe an ongoing project, in which informally organised international consortium is using the open source LARA platform to create multimodal annotated editions of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit prince multiple languages, so far French, English, Italian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Polish, Farsi and Mandarin. versions book include integrated audio translations automatically generated ...

Identification of visual words and writings has long been one of the most essential and the most attractive operations in the field of image processing which has been studied since the last few decades and includes security, traffic control, fields of psychology, medicine, and engineering, etc. Previous techniques in the field of identification of visual writings are very similar to each other ...