This paper describes the implementation of our three systems at SemEval-2007, for task 2 (word sense discrimination), task 5 (Chinese word sense disambiguation), and the first subtask in task 17 (English word sense disambiguation). For task 2, we applied a cluster validation method to estimate the number of senses of a target word in untagged data, and then grouped the instances of this target ...

Lexical ambiguity can lead to concept transfer failure in conversational spoken language translation (CSLT) systems. This paper presents a novel, classificationbased approach to accurately detecting word sense translation errors (WSTEs) of ambiguous source words. The approach requires minimal human annotation effort, and can be easily scaled to new language pairs and domains, with only a wordal...

introduction: emotional words in comparison with neutral words have different hemispheric specialization. it is assumed that the right hemisphere has a role in processing every kind of emotional word. the objective of the present study was the development of a persian version of the dichotic emotional word test and evaluate its validation among adult persian speakers.   materials and methods: t...

Background: Finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. The Homophone Meaning Generation Test (HMGT) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Persian ve...

This study attempted to investigate writing problems and the relationship between expert-assessment and self-assessment of writing problems. Participants were thirty four non-English faculty members of Tehran and Guilan universities. The instruments were writing an essay on the topic "What teaching strategies do you use in your classes?" in twenty five lines and filling the questionnaire of wri...

Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods: In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio...

this study strives to investigate the importance of ‘education’ and ‘gender’, as two major sociolinguistic variables, in accepting or rejecting the words coined by the iranian academy of persian language and literature (apll). a total of 500 students from state universities in tehran were chosen as subjects and provided with a questionnaire consisting of 50 apll equivalents. the respondents’ ac...

this study explores the nature of relatively free word order of verbs and their arguments in persian. based on the theory of phases and multiple spell-out which is an instantiation of minimalist program, we attempt to account for the restrictions on these word order variations. having a direct interaction with the syntax-phonology interface rather than a purely syntactic one, these restrictions...