BACKGROUND Reliability and validity are the key concepts in measurement processes. Young internet addiction test (YIAT) is regarded as a valid and reliable questionnaire in English speaking countries for diagnosis of Internet-related behavior disorders. OBJECTIVES This study aimed at validating the Persian version of YIAT in the Iranian society. PATIENTS AND METHODS A pilot and a cross-sect...

BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. Speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and Wh-questions. To assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with non...

BACKGROUND The Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2 (AIMS2) has not been translated and validated for Persian-speaking patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. This was to provide a validated instrument to measure functional disability and health-related quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee in Iran. The aim of this study was to culturally adapt and validate the AIMS2 fo...

FarsiSum is an attempt to create an automatic text summarization system for Persian. The system is implemented as a HTTP client/server application written in Perl. It uses modules implemented in an existing summarizer geared towards the Germanic languages, a Persian stop-list in Unicode format and a small set of heuristic rules.

1Department of Embryology; 3Department of Health, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M.J. Golalipour: [email protected]). 2Department of Paediatrics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10 000 births at a referral hospital in Gorg...

Background: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a real problem that affects 25-63% of women. There is no valid Persian version of sexual function questionnaire (FSQ). Objectives: The aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of Persian version of sexual function questionnaire. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 547 women were questioned by Persian version of S...

BACKGROUND Finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. The Homophone Meaning Generation Test (HMGT) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Persian ver...

This paper describes creation of a test collection for Persian Part of Speech Tagging experiments. This collection was created by modifying a manually Part of Speech (POS) tagged Persian corpus with over two million tagged words. The original collection had a tag set of 550 tags that are more than what any machine learning algorithm can handle. The number of tags for these experiments was reduc...

This paper describes a method based on morphological analysis of words for a Persian Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging system. This is a main part of a process for expanding a large Persian corpus called Peyekare (or Textual Corpus of Persian Language). Peykare is arranged into two parts: annotated and unannotated parts. We use the annotated part in order to create an automatic morphological analyze...