Abstract When pursuing a controversial socio-scientific issue, readers are expected to construct balanced representations that include overlapping and opposing information. However, readers’ mental often biased towards their prior beliefs. Previous research on such text-belief consistency effects have been conducted mostly in monolingual contexts. The present study investigated whether document...

Lexical ontologies are one of the main resources for developing natural language processing and semantic web applications. Mapping lexical ontologies of different languages is very important for inter-lingual tasks. On the other hand mapping approaches can be implied to build lexical ontologies for a new language based on pre-existing resources of other languages. In this paper we propose a sem...

this article aims at contrasting aspectual oppositions in english and persian in the context of the novel the old man and the sea, and its translation by daryabandari (1983) as the data. unlike english, in persian perfective and imperfective forms are morphologically marked. while the vast majority of english simple past forms are translated into persian by past perfective forms, only less than...

BACKGROUND Fear of falling may be related to falling during stroke onset. The Fall Efficacy ScaleInternational (FES-I) with excellent psychometric properties, is an instrument developed to assess patients' concerns about fallings. The aim of this study was to determine validation of this scale in Iranian patients with stroke. METHODS The "forward-backward" procedure was applied to translate t...

Comprehension is closely related not only to the knowledge of words and syntax, but also the pragmatic concerns of the discourse. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of the intonational clues selection of Iranian teenagers’ and young adults’ Persian listening comprehension ability on their English learning as a second language. According to Buck (2003), in listening c...

We describe evaluation experiments conducted by submitting retrieval runs for the monolingual German, French, English and Persian (Farsi) information retrieval tasks of the Ad Hoc Track of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2009. In the ad hoc retrieval tasks, the system was given 50 natural language queries, and the goal was to find all of the relevant records or documents (with high p...

One of the most major and essential tasks in natural language processing is machine translation that is now highly dependent upon multilingual parallel corpora. Through this paper, we introduce the biggest Persian-English parallel corpus with more than one million sentence pairs collected from masterpieces of literature. We also present acquisition process and statistics of the corpus, and expe...

Parallel corpora are the necessary resources in many multilingual natural language processing applications, including machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. Manual preparation of a large scale parallel corpus is a very time consuming and costly procedure. In this paper, the work towards building a sentence-level aligned EnglishPersian corpus in a semi-automated manner is p...