this study investigates the conceptual metaphors of happiness in a representative corpus of modern persian. making use of persian linguistic database, we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, to represent modern colloquial persian; then we tried to extract the relevant conceptual metaphors of happiness. the sample corpus contains 14 texts written by contemporary iranian writers. analy...

This article studies different aspects of a new approach to word sense disambiguation using statistical information gained from a monolingual corpus of the target language. Here, the source language is English and the target is Persian, and the disambiguation method can be directly applied in the system of English-to-Persian machine translation for solving lexical ambiguity problems in this sys...

Abstract In the “Afghan Genizah,” a recently acquired collection of texts in Judeo-Persian, Early New-Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic from tenth to thirteenth centuries, I recognized Judeo-Persian fragment Jewish, anti-Christian polemic work. This may be – or not part Toledoth Yeshu literature. It contains Gospel quotation Syriac Hebrew letters.

language textbooks are conventionally expected to develop the four language macro-skills, including listening, reading, writing and speaking in language learners. however, mastering the reading skill is of particular importance, since it enhances the comprehension of specialized texts in students. the objective of this research is to investigate the scientific aspect of persian textbooks in tea...

Abstract Biblical trauma studies strongly emphasize that texts and traditions eventually formed the Hebrew Bible helped both authors (former) “readers” to cope with catastrophic events. This approach, however, leads side-lining other functions of biblical texts, for instance extent which were used transmitted not only “heal” but also “wound” collectivity, namely shape collective identity ancien...

Many researchers use texts from the web, an easy source of linguistic data in a great variety of languages. Building both large and good quality text corpora is the challenge we face nowadays. In this paper we describe how to deal with inefficient data downloading and how to focus crawling on text rich web domains. The idea has been successfully implemented in SpiderLing. We present efficiency ...