BACKGROUND Angina pectoris causes substantial psychological and functional disabilities and adversely effects quality of life in patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties including validity and reliability of the Farsi version of the Seattle angina questionnaire. METHODS The 'forward-backward' procedure was applied to translate this questionnaire from Engl...

second language acquisition (sla) always happens when the learners live and have contact with the native speakers of a second language. although this study investigates learning english by ten native children of farsi, the authors try to simulate the second language acquisition environment. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language learning o...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Farsi version of the perceived benefits/barriers scale of physical activity in Iranian elderly. METHODS Overall, 388 elderly subjects (60 yr and over) completed the demographic characteristics questionnaire, the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale (EBBS) and the Yale physical activity scale. Data were a...

We propose a real-time machine translation system that allows users to select a news category and to translate the related live news articles from Arabic, Czech, Danish, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish into English. The Moses-based system was optimised for the news domain and differs from other available systems in four ways: (1) News items are automatica...

Keyword search in speech requires retrieval systems to know the pronunciation of keywords. Many languages of the world are either largely alphabetic or have pronouncing dictionaries so that deducing pronunciations at run-time is manageable. There are many under-resourced languages, though, with writing systems where only some of the vowels are represented in the orthography (i.e., “abjads”). Th...

We present a tiered-approach to the recognition of metaphor. The first tier is made up of highly precise expert-driven lexico-syntactic patterns which are automatically expended on in the second tier using lexical and dependency transformations. The final tier utilizes an SVM classifier using a variety of syntactic, semantic, and psycholinguistic features to determine if an expression is metaph...

The attachment of a relative clause (RC) has been found to differ across languages when its head noun is a complex NP. One attempt to explain the attachment differences is the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH) proposed by Fodor (1998, 2002). The goal of this paper is to show how the default phrasing of a sentence (explicit prosody), defined phonologically, differs across seven languages (Englis...

This paper, based on the Viterbi algorithm, selects the most likely combination of different wording from a variety of scenarios. In this regard, the Bi-gram and Unigram tags of each word, based on the letters forming the words, as well as the bigram and unigram labels After the breakdown into the composition or moment of transition from the decomposition to the combination obtained from th...