International media was quick to dub the Iranian Green Movement a “Twitter revolution” when it erupted in summer of 2009. State violence against protestors captured real time and broadcast worldwide on social media, providing an early example regime's helplessness at locking down narrative face ubiquitous smart phones. Over decade later, nearly all foreign remain officially blocked Iran, yet Ir...

In this paper, a method for recognizing online Farsi characters that are written separately has been introduced. Regarding to the shape and the structure of the main body, Farsi letters have been divided into 18 groups. First, hidden Markov model (HMM) technique has been exploited to recognize the main body. In the next step, the final recognition in each group is performed according to delayed...

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 ...

Knowing varieties of writing a letter in a word or a subword in different handwriting styles is very beneficial in recognition specifically for online recognition. In this paper, TMU-OFS dataset consisting of 1000 frequent Farsi subwords is employed to study Farsi handwriting styles. The subwords are grouped based on their delayed strokes and their main bodies, separately. The handwriting style...

In this paper, the problems of Farsi word processing software packages that are based on Word for Windows are enumerated. Being a non-roman script written from right to left and taken as Arabic, are two factors affecting the malfunctioning of Word for Windows. The problems such as: different keyboard layouts in different versions of Word; many problems encountered in dealing with digits; the pr...

This paper describes the University of Edinburgh’s spoken language translation (SLT) and machine translation (MT) systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign. In the SLT track, we participated in the German↔English and English→French tasks. In the MT track, we participated in the German↔English, English→French, Arabic↔English, Farsi→English, Hebrew→English, Spanish↔English, and Portuguese-Br...

BACKGROUND Procrastination is a common behavior which affects different aspects of life. The procrastination assessment scale-student (PASS) evaluates academic procrastination apropos its frequency and reasons. OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Farsi version of the PASS in a sample of Iranian medical students. PATIENTS AND METHODS...

There are several methods offered for spelling correction in Farsi (Persian) Language. Unfortunately no powerful framework has been implemented because of lack of a large training set in Farsi as an accurate model. A training set consisting of erroneous and related correction string pairs have been obtained from a large number of instances of the books each of which were typed two times in Comp...