Development of robust spoken language technology ideally relies on the availability of large amounts of data preferably in the target domain and language. However, more often than not, speech developers need to cope with very little or no data, typically obtained from a different target domain. This paper focuses on developing techniques towards addressing this challenge. Specifically we consid...

We propose a method for expanding the entries in a thesaurus using a di erent thesaurus constructed with another concept. This method constructs a mapping table between the concept codes of these two di erent thesauri. Then, almost all of the entries of the latter thesaurus are assigned the concept codes of the former thesaurus with the mapping table between them. To con rm whether this method ...

the recent increase in the number of publications devoted to teaching the persian language to speakers of other languages and the development of such courses in iran and elsewhere signify a cultural movement. however, one of the shortcomings of this movement pertains to its oblivious stance to persian language proficiency. this paper aims at defining language proficiency bringing its importance...

The article is a review of the monograph Essays on Contemporary Tuvan Culture by famous Tuvinian scholar C.K. Lamazhaa (Saint Petersburg: Nestor-History, 2021. 192 p.). reviewed book considers latest social-cultural processes in society and trends development studies. Each nine sections focuses separate feature social cultural life contemporary ethnic Tuvans - indigenous people Republic Tuva, a...

Documentation and retrieval processes at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision are organized around a common thesaurus. To help improve the quality of these processes the thesaurus was transformed into an RDF/OWL ontology and extended on basis of implicit information and external resources. A thesaurus browser web application was designed, implemented and tested on future users.

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...

Background: The Brief COPE is widely validated and popularly used in assessing coping strategies in major life stressors on various populations. This study carried out to determine the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Brief COPE among wives of patients under hemodialysis. Methods: The Brief COPE was translated into Persian language according to the standard method and the ...

Objectives. Considering the influence of different motor and nonmotor features of Parkinson's disease (PD), it is important to evaluate the psychosocial functioning of the patients. For this purpose, the scales for outcomes in Parkinson's disease-psychosocial questionnaire (SCOPA-PS) has been previously designed. The aim of our study was to assess the cross-cultural validation and psychometric ...

This paper describes the work done in the TIPS project about the construction of a thesaurus base. This construction is a merge from a thesaurus manually built and one automatically extracted from large text corpora. Several manually built thesaurus have been semiformatted to be merged in a consistent common base. The automatic extraction is based on both syntax and statistics. We present in th...

--This paper describes an attempt to explain various characteristics of Punjabi language. The origin and symbols of Punjabi language are presents in this paper. Various relations exist in thesaurus and role of thesaurus in natural language processing also has been elaborated in this paper. Keywords---Thesaurus, Punjabi, characteristics, relations