Having Farsi as the underlying language and using a test collection of 166,774 documents and 100 topics, this experiment evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of different IR models while using a light and a plural stemmer as well as n-grams and trunc-n indexing strategies. Moreover the impact of stoplist removal is evaluated. According to the obtained results the DFR-I(ne)C2 model is the best ...

Educational organizations have different methods of deploying E-learning systems, of which is using and developing open-source e-learning systems. One should consider some criteria when choosing a suitable system includes: documentation, usage rate, structure, standards support and educational strategy. In this work an e-learning software system has been elected and five phases of modification ...

By reviewing the literature on development of English language teaching methods in last three decades, it is obvious that idea using first (L1) second (L2) classroom has always been controversial. The history pedagogy and role foreign learning generate debates as a language. growing every day Iran, result, need for informing best policy getting more urgent. principal intent current study, inves...

INTRODUCTION Iranians comprise an immigrant group that has a very different cultural background from that of the mainstream Canadian population and speaks a language other than English or French; in this case mainly Farsi (Persian). Although Iranian immigrants in Toronto receive a high proportion of care from Farsi-speaking family physicians and health care providers than physicians who cannot ...

Stress is known to be an important prosodic feature of speech. The recognition of stressed speech has always been an important issue for speech researchers. On the other hand, providing a large corpus with the coverage of all different stressed conditions in a certain language is a difficult task. Farsi (Persian) has been no exception to this. In this research, our aim has been to evaluate the ...

one of the main objectives of teaching persian to non-native language learners is helping them to communicate with persian speakers in a variety of personal and professional situations in their daily life. to investigate the issues of verbal communication, we are obliged to pay attention to the different language functions. to do this, the present research aims to study the amount of attention ...

background: since most clinical treatments of persian children’s language impairments are based on either the therapist, clinicians’ experiences (mostly), or english language norms (sometimes), comparing two minor indices of speech quality, namely “mean length of utterance” (mlu) and “mean length of five phrasal utterances” (mlfpu) between different age groups of children, would be unequivocall...

This paper presents a new comprehensive database for isolated offline handwritten Farsi/Arabic numbers and characters for use in optical character recognition research. The database is freely available for academic use. So far no such a freely database in Farsi language is available. Grayscale images of 52,380 characters and 17,740 numerals are included. Each image was scanned from Iranian scho...