Sentence-level aligned parallel texts are important resources for a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks and applications such as statistical machine translation and cross-language information retrieval. With the rapid growth of online parallel texts, efficient and robust sentence alignment algorithms become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose a fast and robust senten...

The paper describes the process of designing a natural language dialogue interface for querying large databases with time data about electrical power network failures. The first stage of implementation of such dialogue interface consists of creation and preparation of several auxiliary resources that are required for natural language processing of texts over this specific domain. All modern met...

Users express their feelings about an entity of a specific topic in a free way using short texts on social networks. Sentiment analysis, also known as opinion mining, focuses on examining these texts to determine their polarity. This article presents an approach to the mining of opinions based on topics from Twitter texts in Spanish. The main objective is to decide the polarity of a text, deter...

Recent events have made it clear that some kinds of technical texts, generated by machine and essentially meaningless, can be confused with authentic, technical texts written by humans. We identify this as a potential problem, since no existing systems for, say the web, can or do discriminate on this basis. We believe that there are subtle, shortand longrange word or even string co-occurrences ...

death and afterworld are among those vexing questions for humankind. in both eastern and western literature there are many works attempting to describe afterworld and resurrection as a journey to the other world. sanaei’s seir-al-ebad elal-ma’ad and ardaviraf nameh are two examples of such journeys. based on the gnostic experiences of resurrection, the two texts depict exciting and marvelous im...

so far, various romanization schemes have been proposed for capturing persian text using latin alphabet. however, each have served a very specific and yet limited function. this paper proposes an extended romanization scheme that can facilitate a wide range of encoding needed in the field of natural language processing. the proposed scheme endeavors to preserve both orthographic and phonologica...

one of the oldest medical schools in the world is ayūrvedic school or indian traditional medicine whose history goes back to five thousand years ago. this school, which was formed and came to maturity in india, has affected on other medical schools in the world and iranian medical school has been affected by it. in remnant texts of one of the eastern middle iranian languages, khotanese, in east...

This paper introduces a method for the automatic acquisition from free text of a rich case representation for process-oriented case-based reasoning. Case engineering is among the most complicated and costly tasks in implementing a case-based reasoning system. This is especially so for process-oriented case-based reasoning, where more expressive case representations are normally used and, in our...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...