PURPOSE To evaluate the health status of Gulf War veterans who reported receipt of anthrax vaccination and a small group of Gulf War veterans for whom documentation of anthrax vaccination exists. METHODS Among the 11,441 Gulf War veterans who completed a health survey, 4601 reported receiving the anthrax vaccine during the war; 2979 veterans reported not receiving it; 3861 were uncertain. Als...

Objectives: This paper studies the effect of Persian Cued Speech on the perception of Persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. Cued Speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. And it is shown that it effectively ca...

Parallel corpora are one of the key resources in natural language processing. In spite of their importance in many multi-lingual applications, no large-scale English-Persian corpus has been made available so far, given the difficulties in its creation and the intensive labors required. In this paper, the construction process of Tehran English-Persian parallel corpus (TEP) using movie subtitles,...

We introduce PerLex, a large-coverage and freely-available morphological lexicon for the Persian language. We describe the main features of the Persian morphology, and the way we have represented it within the Alexina formalism, on which PerLex is based. We focus on the methodology we used for constructing lexical entries from various sources, as well as the problems related to typographic norm...

Ezafe construction is an idiosyncratic phenomenon in the Persian language. It is a good indicator for phrase boundaries and dependency relations but mostly does not appear in the text. In this paper, we show that adding information about Ezafe construction can give 4.6% relative improvement in dependency parsing and 9% relative improvement in shallow parsing. For evaluation purposes, Ezafe tags...

In this paper we present a rather novel unsupervised method for part of speech (below POS) disambiguation which has been applied to Persian. This method known as Iterative Improved Feedback (IIF) Model, which is a heuristic one, uses only a raw corpus of Persian as well as all possible tags for every word in that corpus as input. During the process of tagging, the algorithm passes through sever...

In this paper we present and justify methodological principles and syntactic criteria to design an annotation scheme for a Persian Treebank. The main approaches to the annotation of Treebanks are presented in order to account for taken decisions. After examining these approaches, and taking into account the syntactic characteristics of Persian, the most appropriate one will be selected and its ...

Content of Persian literature comes from innocents, has special effect on social and individual people life. We understand worth of medical science, physician and sick people relationship in society and impact of religion behavior in treatment. Persian literature contains some recommendation that improve belief, trust, and secretary in medical society. In this article we chose some Persian lite...

This paper describes an exploration of the implicit synonymy relationship expressed by synonym lists in an on-line thesaurus. A series of automatic steps was taken to properly constrain this relationship. The resulting groupings of semantically related word senses are believed to constitute a useful tool for natural language processing and for work in lexicography.

We investigate how both model-related factors and application-related factors affect the accuracy of distributional semantic models (DSMs) in the context of specialized lexicography, and how these factors interact. This holistic approach to the evaluation of DSMs provides valuable guidelines for the use of these models and insight into the kind of semantic information they capture.