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...

Traditional methods of summarization are not cost-effective and possible today. Extractive summarization is a process that helps to extract the most important sentences from a text automatically and generates a short informative summary. In this work, we propose an unsupervised method to summarize Persian texts. This method is a novel hybrid approach that clusters the concepts of the text using...

This study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the English translations of Persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the Iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. Thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Are the English versions of Persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

Every society has its own culture, values, and ideology. Translations convey the meaning as well as cultural and ideological values, beliefs, ideas and norms from source culture to target culture. One type of translation which nowadays is popular among people, and can attract so many audiences in different ages is Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly dubbing. If there is difference betwe...

This study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the English translations of Persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the Iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. Thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Are the English versions of Persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

this study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the english translations of persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) are the english versions of persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a major field of study in natural language processing, computational linguistics and information retrieval. Interest in SA has been constantly growing in both academia and industry over the recent years. Moreover, there is an increasing need for generating appropriate resources and datasets in particular for low resource languages including Persian. These datasets pla...

every society has its own culture, values, and ideology. translations convey the meaning as well as cultural and ideological values, beliefs, ideas and norms from source culture to target culture. one type of translation which nowadays is popular among people, and can attract so many audiences in different ages is audiovisual translation (avt), particularly dubbing. if there is difference betwe...

background and purpose: speech intelligibility refers to how speech is understandable by listeners.  this study examined speech intelligibility in children (persian native speakers) with spastic cerebral palsy aged 8-12 years old. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was performed in 31dysarthric students (….. boys and …..girls)  in tehran, 2014. a list of words and sentences were pre...

The  present study aims at exploring the processing difficulty of cleft structures as a type of relative clause for EFL and Persian as  first language learners.The impact of head nouns with various functions as well as that of embedding on the processing of Persian and English cleft structures has been investigated in the present study.The participants  were 68  Iranian male and female students...