This paper describes the usage of Natural Language Processing tools, mostly probabilistic topic modeling, to study semantics (word correlations) in a collection of Persian poems consisting of roughly 18k poems from 30 different poets. For this study, we put a lot of effort in the preprocessing and the development of a large scope lexicon supporting both modern and ancient Persian. In the analys...

Nature displays profound preference for certain specific ratios to design her life-forms. These are geometric relationships that are transcendent and originated from Sacred Geometry. The view that geometry had a ritual origin is a part of a wider view that civilisation itself had a ritual origin, and therefore the history of utilisation of Sacred Geometry by man goes back to many centuries ago....

The cognitive and neural representation of abstract words is still an open question for theories of embodied cognition. Generally, it is proposed that abstract words are grounded in the activation of sensorimotor or at least experiential properties, exactly as concrete words. Further behavioral theories propose multiple representations evoked by abstract and concrete words. We conducted a funct...

the translator’s multilateral role as auser and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the targettext in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawnresearchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior includingthe translation process of  novicetranslators this study, outlined in the framework of descriptive translationstudies (dts), ...

in different linguistic studies, usually only one type of collocations has been investigated and in the classifications that have been introduced for different types of collocations, just formal and grammatical properties of the words within collocations have been mentioned. this study, for the first time, introduces eight criteria such as pivot word, feature percolation and separability for de...

In this study, a system for Iranian traditional music Dastgah classification is presented. Persian music is based upon a set of seven major Dastgahs. The Dastgah in Persian music is similar to western musical scales and also Maqams in Turkish and Arabic music. Fuzzy logic type 2 as the basic part of our system has been used for modeling the uncertainty of tuning the scale steps of each Dastgah....

In this paper, we investigate the problem of Ezafe recognition in Persian language. Ezafe is an unstressed vowel that is usually not written, but is intelligently recognized and pronounced by human. Ezafe marker can be placed into noun phrases, adjective phrases and some prepositional phrases linking the head and modifiers. Ezafe recognition in Persian is indeed a homograph disambiguation probl...