This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

Abstract This paper aims to investigate the usage and frequency of what we refer as K-suffixes in Classical New Persian ninth thirteenth centuries, Contemporary Written late nineteenth mid-twentieth Spoken Persian. It shows that are most likely be reflexes earlier evaluative morphemes, traditionally called “diminutives,” characterized by a high degree multifunctionality. While functions continu...

Abstract The establishment of the colonial universities in India was a watershed moment for history Persian studies on subcontinent. Despite rise English and vernacular literatures nineteenth century, remained an essential language instruction colleges, with generations Indian students studying to pass university examinations. By closely calendars courses, this article demonstrates that created...

the research entitled “a comparative study of saadi’s golestan and samuel johnson’s rasselas” is based on the inclination of 18th century writer and theorist johnson on towards rich persian literature and outstanding resemblance of golestan and rassales from the structural, moral, philosophical points of view. the findings are based on two hypotheses: (1) has there been any basis for johnson’...

Abstract The immensity of the corpus and diversity genres Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian garb is remarkable, comprising a wide-ranging multitude from translations Tanakh rabbinic works to chronicles, lexicographies, religious poetry, medieval Hebrew poems, large non-Jewish literature transcribed script. Yet, literary corpora remain incompletely catalogued as well unsatisfactorily studie...

This paper introduces the first pattern-based Persian Temporal Relation Classifier (PTRC) that finds the type of temporal relations between pairs of events in the Persian texts. The proposed system uses support vector machines (SVMs) equipped by combinations of simple, convolution tree, and string subsequence kernels (SSK). In order to evaluate the algorithm, we have developed a Persian TimeBan...

In any natural language processing project, the input text needs to undergo tokenization before morphological analysis or parsing. For Arabic script languages the tokenization process faces more problems and it plays a more crucial role in natural language processing (NLP) systems for Arabic script languages. In this work we elaborate on some of these problems and present solutions for these. T...

In this paper we introduce Mahak Samim, a plagiarism detection corpus that consists of Persian academic texts in which plagiarism cases are embedded. This corpus, which can be used for evaluating plagiarism detection systems, consists of more than five thousand artificial plagiarism cases with various lengths and diverse degrees of obfuscation. The development process and the features of the co...