the ph.d. entrance examinations of islamic azad university in iran are administered annually to select the best applicants for ph.d. programs. in consideration of the important decisions, which are made on the basis of the results of these examinations, the present study was conducted to provide a qualitative evaluation of field-specific language subtests (flss) of four entrance examinations ad...

the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...

Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is among the most fundamental tasks in natural language processing applications, such as question answering and machine translation. One of main challenges logic-based approaches to this task lack background knowledge. This study proposes a logical inference system with phrasal knowledge by comparing their visual representations based on intuition that enabl...