This paper is an attempt to exclusively focus on investigating the pivot language technique in which a bridging language is utilized to increase the quality of the Persian–Spanish low-resource Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). In this case, English is used as the bridging language, and the Persian–English SMT is combined with the English–Spanish one, where the relatively large corpora of e...

1-introduction languages employ different strategies to represent motion as one of the basic human cognitive abilities. in talmy's typological dichotomy (1991; 2000b) languages are of two types according to the way they represent path either in verb roots or in satellites, accordingly languages are either verb framed or satellite framed. slobin (1991;1996 a,b.1997;2000) performed corpus based a...

Tajik Persian is a dialect of Persian spoken primarily in Tajikistan and written with a modified Cyrillic alphabet. Iranian Persian, or Farsi, as it is natively called, is the lingua franca of Iran and is written with the Persian alphabet, a modified Arabic script. Although the spoken versions of Tajik and Farsi are mutually intelligible to educated speakers of both languages, the difference be...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been conducted in Iran in order to investigate the status of social determinants of health (SDH) and their associations with health indicators. This study aimed to review the Iranian studies conducted on SDH. METHODS A systematic review of all Iranian Persian and English languages articles published between 2005 and 2014 on the SDH was conducted using the search o...

background: the oxford knee score (oks) is a short patient-reported outcome instrument that measures pain and physical activity related to knee osteoarthritis. the purpose of this study is to evaluate, construct validity and consistent reliability of the persian version of the oks. methods: the case series consisted of 80 patients who were clinically diagnosed with having knee osteoarthritis. a...

As interaction between speakers of different languages continues to increase, the everpresent problem of language barriers must be overcome. For the same reason, automatic language translation (Machine Translation) has become an attractive area of research and development. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) has been used for translation between many language pairs, the results of which have ...