The main concern of the present study was to compare Iranian monolingual and bilingual EFL students’ listening comprehension in terms of Latinized Persian subtitling of English movie to see whether there was a significant difference between monolinguals and bilinguals on immediate linguistic comprehension of the movie. Latinized Persian subtitling was representing Persian language in Latin scri...

In this paper Taqi Modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. He is one of the early Persian writers in diaspora who left Iran decades before the Islamic Revolution.  His novels have been published both in English and Persian. Azra-ye Khalvatneshin [The Virgin of Solitude], which was published posthumously in an English translation in 2008 and in the original Persian in 2010, both in...

traditional calligraphy is known as one of the most valuable islamic arts which always contains unknown parts. one of these parts is uncommon and unknown scripts of manuscripts. in iran, given to the valuation of writing and manuscript as well as the presence of various art schools in different islamic centuries, many manuscripts have been written and collected which now many of these works are...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a very old and of great interest in pattern recognition field. The recognition of cursive scripts like Persian and Arabic languages is a difficult task as their segmentation suffers from serious problems in different languages. Segmentation is a process of dividing cursive words into smaller parts in order to decrease complexity and increase accuracy of re...

BACKGROUND Mucilage compounds are pharmaceutically important polysaccharides that have an extensive range of applications, including binding agents, thickeners, water retention agents, emulsion stabilizers, suspending agents, disintegrates, film formers, and gelling agents. A historical approach to medical science written by Iranian scholars could help in identifying excellent ideas and provide...

Indian sub-continent is one of those unique parts of the world where single languages are written in different scripts. This is the case for example with Punjabi, written in Indian East Punjab in Gurmukhi script (a Left to Right script based on Devnagri) and in Pakistani West Punjab, it is written in Shahmukhi (a Right to Left script based on Perso-Arabic). This is also the case with other lang...

Farsi, also known as Persian, is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two main languages spoken in Afghanistan. It is an Indo-European agglutinating language, written in Arabic script. This paper presents the first step in creating Farsi basic language resources kit. This Step comprises the specifications for morphosyntactic encoding, which is based on the EAGLES/MULTEXT mod...