Abstract Despite the progress made in recent years addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, majority of this remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses Persian language, one widely spoken world, and yet there are few NLU datasets available for language. The availability high-quality evaluation is a necessity reliable assessment diffe...

Dizziness and vertigo are the most common complaints of patients that has a high economic burden on the health system. In modern medicine, treatment for dizziness and vertigo consists of chemical pharmacological therapy. Although these drugs are useful in controlling the disease, their side effects and inefficiency in full control of the disease require the use of complementary medicine in this...

Sorting Persian strings is a common challenge for many users that develop web-based database applications. This issue occurs more frequently while using Persian data. To the best of our knowledge almost many versions of several DBMS do not support Persian strings sorting properly. In this paper we present a Java pattern for solving this issue. Our object-oriented solution consists of three clas...

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) relies on the availability of rich parallel corpora. However, in the case of under-resourced languages or some specific domains, parallel corpora are not readily available. This leads to under-performing machine translation systems in those sparse data settings. To overcome the low availability of parallel resources the machine translation community has rec...

BACKGROUND Neural correlates of single word reading with the use of a functional MRI (fMRI) scan have been widely studied in different languages. These study patterns of cortical activation differ in different languages. In this report we used a similar technique to study cortical activation when reading single Persian words. METHODS The subjects were comprised of nine healthy right-handed bi...

The aim of this article is to share our experiences from an international collaborative effort to study health outcomes among Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) soldiers following the 1991 Gulf War. By paying particular attention to distinct social and religious customs, geopolitical differences, and unique aspects of the health care system, we achieved a successful international collaboration...

herāt experienced a considerable boom of culture and art during the reign of timurids, especially during the long reign of shāhrokh and hossein bāyqārā. herāt’s cultural life had been influenced by several factors and issues which are going to be categorized in four classes of: promotion of shari'a, persian language expansion, iranian-based thoughts, and mysticism to be analyzed beside the...

Ebrahim Ansari ([email protected]) et al. 2017. Extracting bilingual per-sian italian lexicon from comparable corpora using different types of seed dictionaries. In " Applications of Comparable Corpora " edited book Berlin Linguistic Press (ed.). Bilingual dictionaries are very important in various fields of natural language processing. In recent years, research on extracting new bilingual lex...