BACKGROUND A clinical outcome tool is needed for the assessment of young athletes with low back pain. OBJECTIVES To translate and culturally adapt the Micheli functional scale (MFS), a self-report questionnaire developed to evaluate young athletes with low back pain (LBP) into Persian language and examine the reliability and validity of the Persian MFS (PMFS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-...

The empirical study of discourse and dialogue is still young, compared to its sister areas of syntax, semantics and lexicography. These other areas have achieved significant new results, based in part on the existence of shared infrastructure, specifically:

This paper is an attempt to exclusively focus on investigating the pivot language technique in which a bridging language is utilized to increase the quality of the Persian–Spanish low-resource Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). In this case, English is used as the bridging language, and the Persian–English SMT is combined with the English–Spanish one, where the relatively large corpora of e...

In this paper, we describe a multilingual open-source computational grammar of Persian, developed in Grammatical Framework (GF) – A type-theoretical grammar formalism. We discuss in detail the structure of different syntactic (i.e. noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, etc.) categories of Persian. First, we show how to structure and construct these categories individually. Then we des...

One of the important actions in the processing of languages is part-of-speech tagging. Against of this importance, although numerous models have been presented in different languages but there is few works have been done in Persian language. In this paper, a part-of-speech tagging system on Persian corpus by using hidden Markov model is proposed. Achieving to this goal, the main aspects of Pers...

В статье рассматриваются основные принципы составления «Толкового словаря живого великорусского языка» В. И. Даля, представляющие интерес в аспекте современной компьютерной лексикографии. Отмечается, что лексикографическая концепция В.И. Даля является уникальным феноменом, она значительно опередила свое время, поскольку истории развития лексикографии ХХ-ХХI вв. ученые только высказывали мнение ...

INTRODUCTION The Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient's self-assessment. In some ways, it reflects the patient's quality of life. Although it has been recognized and widely applied in English speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in Persian speaking countries. The purpose of this study was to adapt a Persian ve...

BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

This paper discusses the problem of automated lexicography. In the corpus-based approach, a lexicographer has to manually group contexts of a target word into clusters in order to identify word senses. When a large number of the contexts is given, this process becomes a tedious and time-consuming task. To overcome this problem, we propose an efficient technique based on unsupervised clustering....