This study compares and contrasts lexical cohesion in English and Persian abstracts of Iranian medical students’ theses to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages. For this purpose, one hundred English and Persian abstracts were selected randomly and analyzed based on Seddigh and Yarmohamadi’s (1996) lexical cohesion framework, a version of Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Halli...

since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...

There are many ways to recognize the identity of individuals and authenticate them. Recognition and authentication of individuals with the help of their handwriting is regarded as a research topic in recent years. It is widely used in the field of security, legal, access control and financial activities. This article tries to examines the identification and authentication of individuals in Pers...

the script and orthography system which are used for the zoroastrian middle persian (= pahlavi) texts because of their many shortcomings and difficulties have always caused many misunderstandings and misinterpretations by the ancient users and modern researchers. this indeterminacy of the script and the lack of a complete and accurate understanding of the contents of the texts have caused the p...

an important part of iranian literary and historical background is remained in works had been translated or adopted from other texts written in other languages. they were done by translators, called “mirzas”, who were masters in persian literature. their writing style was completely matched with the style of their period. qajar’s era is considered as a prominent period in both french and englis...

Existence of automatic writing assistance tools such as spell and grammar checker/corrector can help in increasing electronic texts with higher quality by removing noises and cleaning the sentences. Different kinds of errors in a text can be categorized into spelling, grammatical and real-word errors. In this article, the concepts of an automatic grammar checker for Persian (Farsi) language, is...

The translation of texts written in different languages is required in many domains, such as machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. Translating words of a text from a source language into a different target language can be efficiently achieved using a bilingual vocabulary, where every source word has a counterpart in the target language. In practice, however, there are oft...

persian-hebrew texts are written in hebrew orthography. their records go back to the period before the essential books about drugs’ nature, the first persian text in arabic orthography by abu mansour mowaffaq herawi which was inscribed by assadi tousi in 447 a.h. therefore, it seems very important to scrutinize such texts for the study of persian language. one of the most important samples of p...