Polar Response Particles (PRPs) have been widely studied in the literature, discussing essence of their ambiguity polarity and (dis)agreement reading sys- tems (Pope 1976) what affects preference. In languages like English Farsi, which same particles satisfy both readings, PRPs are ambiguous response to negative initiatives (including questions assertions). on other hand, not only used assertiv...

Treating morphologically complex words (MCWs) as atomic units in translation would not yield a desirable result. Such words are complicated constituents with meaningful subunits. A complex word in a morphologically rich language (MRL) could be associated with a number of words or even a full sentence in a simpler language, which means the surface form of complex words should be accompanied with...

This paper investigates Farsi handwritten word recognition using common features. Also we applied biologically inspired features (BIFs), derived from a feed forward model of object recognition pathway in visual cortex for Farsi handwritten word recognition problem. Experimental results show that the model achieves high recognition percentage even for large variations and applicability of these ...

This paper presents models for automatic transliteration of proper names between languages that use different alphabets. The models are an extension of our work on automatic discovery of patterns of etymological sound change, based on the Minimum Description Length Principle. The models for pairwise alignment are extended with algorithms for prediction that produce transliterated names. We pres...

Problem statement: Extensive research efforts in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) were focused on developing reading comprehension Question Answering systems (QA) for Latin based languages such as, English, French and German. Approach: However, little effort was directed towards the development of such systems for bidirectional languages such as Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. In general, ...

abstract this survey study was conducted to explore the place of l1 (farsi) in teaching and using english in iran. the participants were 150 students of translation studies at islamic azad university of karaj. to collect the required data a questionnaire was developed; the content validity of which was established by a panel of experts of elt. cronbach's alpha was employed to determine the...

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...