Metadiscourse markers help writers make coherent and reader- friendly texts, thus of considerable importance in academic writing. The main aim of this study was to investigate how interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers are used by Iranian EFL learners. An inquiry was carried out to investigate cross-cultural similarities and differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in the Di...

Recognizing TimeML events and identifying their attributes, are important tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Several NLP applications like question answering, information retrieval, summarization, and temporal information extraction need to have some knowledge about events of the input documents. Existing methods developed for this task are restricted to limited number of languages, an...

Article History The paper received on: 01/01/2015 Accepted after peerreview on: 21/02/2015 Published on: 07/03/2015 Translation has a crucial role in human life. Despite the importance of the influence of ideology in translation, there is lack of research in this area. This study tries to investigate the influence of ideology on translations from English into Persian. The corpus consists of “A ...

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...

In this paper, we present a parallel literary corpus for Serbian, English and French, the TALC-sef corpus. The corpus includes a manually-revised pos-tagged reference Serbian corpus of over 150,000 words. The initial objective was to devise a reference parallel corpus in the three languages, both for literary and linguistic studies. The French and English sub-corpora had been pos-tagged from th...

this article is an attempt first to introduce translation as a linguistic-cultural process, and then to seek the impact of the english language on persian modal auxiliaries. parallel corpora of persian translated and original texts derived from the area of educational psychology were analyzed based on the theoretical framework of house (1997, 2001). the results show us that although the discour...

Hindi and Urdu share a common phonology, morphology and grammar but are written in different scripts. In addition, the vocabularies have also diverged significantly especially in the written form. In this paper we show that we can get reasonable quality translations (we estimated the Translation Error rate at 18%) between the two languages even in absence of a parallel corpus. Linguistic resour...

In this paper, we demonstrate how to mine large-scale parallel corpora with multilingual patents, which have not been thoroughly explored before. We show how a large-scale English-Chinese parallel corpus containing over 14 million sentence pairs with only 1-5% wrong can be mined from a large amount of English-Chinese bilingual patents. To our knowledge, this is the largest single parallel corpu...