PEnTrans is an automatic bidirectional English/ Persian text translator. It contains two main modules, PEnT1,2. PEnT1 translates English sentences into Persian and PEnT2 performs translation from Persian to English. WSD which is an important part in translation is done in both systems by employing a combination of extended dictionary and corpus based approaches in PEnT1 and employing a combinat...

OBJECTIVE The Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI) assesses the impact of acne on a patients life. The aim of the present study was to translate the CADI into Persian language and to validate the Persian version. METHODS Using standard forward-backward translation, 2 bilinguals translated the CADI into Persian language. We back translated it into English and the final version was provided. We...

This paper deals with several issues in the semantics of Persian noun-determination, which has long been of interest to linguists of various theoretical backgrounds, but has only recently started receiving attention from formally-oriented semanticists. The aim of this paper is to introduce and elaborate on several of the more promising newer approaches to the problem of Persian noundeterminatio...

Mobile health apps play an important role in healthcare processes and health promotion. In recent years many Persian mhealth apps were developed and are available in various national app markets. Cafebazaar is the largest Persian app store that contains more than 3500 android apps in medical and health & fitness categories. In this study some characteristics of 200 top Persian medical apps ...

In his seminal book on the historical periods of Western attitudes toward death, Philippe Aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. According to him, the historical attitudes of Western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: "Tamed Death," One's Own Death," "Thy Death," and "Forbidden Death." This paper, after explori...

The aim of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the swallowing quality-of-life questionnaire (SWAL-QOL) to Persian language and to determine validity and reliability of the Persian version of the swallow quality-of-life questionnaire (PSWAL-QOL) in the patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia.The cross-sectional survey was designed to translate and cross-culturally adapt SWAL-QOL...

The OGI Multi-language Telephone Speech Corpus is designed to support research on automatic language identi cation and multi-language speech recognition. The corpus consists of up to nine separate responses from each caller, ranging from single words to short topic-speci c descriptions to 60 seconds of unconstrained spontaneous speech. The utterances were spoken over commercial telephone lines ...

BACKGROUND The menopause-specific quality-of-life (MENQOL) was developed as a specific tool to measure the health-related quality-of-life in menopausal women. Recently, it has been translated into about 15 languages. AIM This study was performed to develop the Persian version of the MENQOL questionnaire from the original English language version. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectio...