Polarity items have been analyzed as existential DPs that introduce into the semantic derivation two types of alternatives: domain alternatives (corresponding to possible restrictions quantification) and scalar stronger quantificational forces.) This approach has led development a typology polarity is based on these (Chierchia 2013). What are dimensions variation? Bar-Lev & Margulis (2014) ...

A conversion from orthographic (written) form to a phonetic transcription is the first stage in a text-to-speech system. In this study, algorithms are presented to facilitate the text-to-phoneme (TTP) conversion for the Farsi language. Using a lexicon of about 15000 base morphemes, word formation rules are investigated and implemented. Moreover, a word segmentation of the written sentence has t...

Despite being one of the most popular tasks in lexical semantics, word similarity has often been limited to the English language. Other languages, even those that are widely spoken such as Spanish, do not have a reliable word similarity evaluation framework. We put forward robust methodologies for the extension of existing English datasets to other languages, both at monolingual and cross-lingu...

This Paper presents a method for lexicon reduction of Printed Farsi subwords based on their holistic shape features. Because of the large number of Persian subwords variously shaped from a simple letter to a complex combination of several connected characters, it is not easy to find a fixed shape descriptor suitable for all subwords. In this paper, we propose to select the descriptor according ...

Previous works on speech recognition utilizing neural networks have often relied on either recognition through segmentation or mapping of the representation trajectories to the phoneme space. Here, information could be missed due to the manner of border labeling techniques. Recent works have indicated that firstly, phonetic borders and transitions would have a good potential to be recognized as...

1. Abbasi‐Shavazi MJ. Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran. In: United Nations Population Division, completing the fertility transition. Available from: http://www.un.org/ esa/population/publications/completingfertility/2RevisedA BBASIpaper.PDF [Last accessed on 2011 Oct 16]. 2. Abbasi‐Shavazi MJ, Mc‐Donald P, Hosseini‐Chavoshi M. In: The Fertility Transition in Iran; Revolution a...

Stress is known to be an important prosodic feature of speech. The recognition of stressed speech has always been an important issue for speech researchers. On the other hand, providing a large corpus with the coverage of all different stressed conditions in a certain language is a difficult task. Farsi (Persian) has been no exception to this. In this research, our aim has been to evaluate the ...