Multilingual corpora are valuable resources for cross-language information retrieval and are available in many language pairs. However the Persian language does not have rich multilingual resources due to some of its special features and difficulties in constructing the corpora. In this study, we build a Persian-English comparable corpus from two independent news collections: BBC News in Englis...

This study validates the Persian version of the Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS). The original scale consists of 21 items and 4 subscales; namely, novelty producing, novelty seeking, engagement, and flexibility. In this study, four samples including 2271 individuals in total participated. Confirmatory factor analysis was employed to test the factorial structure of the Persian version. The results...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an area of research that has attracted the interest of researchers for the past forty years. Although the subject has been the center topic for many researchers for years, it remains one of the most challenging and exciting areas in pattern recognition. Because of the cursive nature of Persian language, recognition of its characters is more difficult than ...

One of the main tasks related to multiword expressions (MWEs) is compound verb identification. There have been so many works on unsupervised identification of multiword verbs in many languages, but there has not been any conspicuous work on Persian language yet. Persian multiword verbs (known as compound verbs), are a kind of light verb construction (LVC) that have syntactic flexibility such as...

Acoustic analysis of 18 words spoken in citation form by 10 male native speakers of Persian suggests that each of the following parameters can cue the post-alveolar fricative-affricate contrast in isolated word forms in Persian: silence duration, frication duration, rise time and amplitude rise slope. The acoustic values of each cue differ with the position of the test item in the word. Silence...

The interest in text to speech synthesis increased in the world . text to speech have been developed for many popular languages such as English, Spanish and French and many researches and developments have been applied to those languages. Persian on the other hand, has been given little attention compared to other languages of similar importance and the research in Persian is still in its infan...

Word finding difficulty is a known impairments in multiple sclerosis (MS). The purpose of this study is to adapt homophone meaning generation test to Persian language, and then examine word storage and access in multiple sclerosis patients through these three word-finding tests. This study examined the word retrieval in 90 Persian speaking patients with multiple sclerosis and 90 matched healthy...

A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. This paper proposes an innovative approach to improve the classification performance of Persian texts considering a very large thesaurus. The paper proposes a flexible method...

Translating from English, a morphologically poor language, into morphologically rich languages such as Persian comes with many challenges. In this paper, we present an approach to rich morphology prediction using a parallel corpus. We focus on the verb conjugation as the most important and problematic phenomenon in the context of morphology in Persian. We define a set of linguistic features usi...

Background and purpose: Research studies indicate that almost 80% of the present day drugs are derived directly or indirectly from medicinal plants. The estimation of a safe starting dose is a concern when a new substance is to be investigated including medicinal plants, in clinical and laboratory studies. This study was intended to explore a simple and reliable method of calculating the starti...