Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, problems arise when we want to process an electronic text. In this paper, some of the common problems faced experimentally in developing a corpus for Persian are discussed. The sources of the problems are the Persian scrip...

In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expanding queries for questions regarding actions and events, where verbs have particularly important roles. Two different thesaurus are used: the OpenOffice thesaurus and an automatically generated verb thesaurus. The per...

The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the special and different nature of the Persian language compared to other languages like English, the design of information retrieval systems in Persian requires special considerations. However, there are relatively few studies on retrieval...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...

New linguistic formations in the media’s description and evaluation of protest events Belarus (“belmaidan”) on 09.08.2020 are considered as a thesaurus. The study is based descriptions sociolinguistic historical context Belarusian realities, provisions reference theory (which manifests itself only speech represents not reality itself, but its image) thesaurus system knowledge about world, prese...

in literary histories written in both iran and the west it has generally be assumed that early modern persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of western literary works. this has been and is still a claim. almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. while there is no point in denying a european influence on early modern persian literature,...

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This paper describe our method in automatic-adhoc task of TREC-7. We propose a method to improve the performance of information retrieval system by expanded the query using 3 di ferent types of thesaurus. The expansion terms are taken from handcrafted thesaurus (WordNet), co-occurrence-based automatically constructed thesaurus, and syntactically predicate-argument based automatically constructe...

Linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with English as a foreign language, gender and English proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect English learning and its quality in Iranian context. The present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general English tests (cloze test and recall t...