This article discusses the outlook of Judeo-Persian Karaite authors on Rabbanite law and rabbinic literature based an exegetical corpus written in Early from eleventh century, which mostly remains manuscript form. A close examination this demonstrates authors’ complex attitude towards their contemporary Rabbanites early Jewish literature. By relying teachings community Jerusalem (the “Mourners ...

this study aims at ascertaining a framework that would account for the persian data. we scrutinize all data occurring in the selected corpus, and describe how they usually work on the basis of the two following variables: power and intimacy. according to our investigation, the use of terms of address in persian is affected by age, sex, occupation, ideology, political and social position of the ...

Globalization and the continued increase in international travel and commerce have made automatic translation systems an attractive area of research and development. Even as technology opens up e-commerce opportunities, companies must overcome language barriers to reach new potential customers and business partners. With the advent of Web2.0 technologies, machine translation and tools like Goog...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

In this paper a new method for automatic word clustering is presented. We used this method for building n-gram language models for Persian continuous speech recognition (CSR) systems. In this method, each word is specified by a feature vector that represents the statistics of parts of speech (POS) of that word. The feature vectors are clustered by k-means algorithm. Using this method causes a r...

In this paper we explore the problem of document summarization in Persian language from two distinct angles. In our first approach, we modify a popular and widely cited Persian document summarization framework to see how it works on a realistic corpus of news articles. Human evaluation on generated summaries shows that graph-based methods perform better than the modified systems. We carry this ...

This paper is an attempt to test PENTA, an articulatory-functional model, on Persian focus prosody. The test was done on a corpus consisting of utterances with different focus conditions using PENTAtrainer2, a trainable prosody synthesizer that optimizes categorical pitch targets each corresponding to multiple communicative functions. The evaluation was done by comparing the F0 contours generat...