OBJECTIVES In developing countries such as Iran, elder populations are growing. Due to the high prevalence of depressive disorders among elders, reliable screening instruments for this population are required. The main purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Farsi version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale-10 (CES-D) among Iranian elder...

BACKGROUND The rate of exclusive breastfeeding in Iran is decreasing. The breastfeeding attrition prediction tools (BAPT) have been validated and used in predicting premature weaning. OBJECTIVES We aimed to translate the BAPT into Farsi, assess its content validity, and examine its reliability and validity to identify exclusive breastfeeding discontinuation in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Th...

In this paper we present our task-based evaluation of query biased summarization for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) using relevance prediction. We describe our 13 summarization methods each from one of four summarization strategies. We show how well our methods perform using Farsi text from the CLEF 2008 shared-task, which we translated to English automtatically. We report precisio...

Phrase–based machine translation (PBMT) relies upon the phrase-table as the main resource for bilingual knowledge at decoding time. A phrase table in its basic form includes aligned phrases along with four probabilities indicating aspects of the co-occurrence statistics for each phrase pair. In this paper we add a new semantic similarity score as a statistical feature to enrich the phrase table...

BACKGROUND The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) has recently been developed to assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of pre-school children in English speaking communities. This study aimed to translate the ECOHIS into Farsi and test its psychometric properties for use on 2- to 5-year-old children of Farsi speaking Iranian families. METHODS EHOHIS questionnaire ...

The stemming process is crucial and significant in the pre-processing step of natural language processing. stemmer oversees process. It facilitates extraction morphological variants a root or base word from provided word. Over period, several stemmers for various vernacular languages have been proposed. However, very few research studies comprehensively investigated these available stemmers. Th...