OBJECTIVE Mental disorders are more common among the chemically injured veterans rather the than the normal population. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mustard gas (MG) on mental health and quality-of-life (QOL) in the people exposed to it based on reviewing valid published articles. METHODS We searched English databases including Medline, ISI and Scopus as well as F...

Significant advances have been achieved in Speech-to-Speech (S2S) translation systems in recent years. However, rapid configuration of S2S systems for low-resource language pairs and domains remains a challenging problem due to lack of human translated bilingual training data. In this paper, we report on an effort to port our existing English/Iraqi S2S system to the English/Farsi language pair ...

Zarnegar (gold writer) is a word processor widely used by publishers of both scholarly journals and books in Iran. Although it is gradually substituted by Word for Windows that is much more powerful than Zarnegar, the process seems to be slow and most Iranian publishers still prefer to receive manuscripts in Zarnegar than Word. There are many reasons for this preference: Word, though having man...

Objective: Lack of scientific writing skills is one major problem encountered for publication of research results of Iranian scientists in accredited journals. As the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. This study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in Iranian Farsi and international English ...

Nowadays, OCR systems have got several applications and are increasingly employed in daily life. Much research has been done regarding the identification of Latin, Japanese, and Chinese characters. However, very little investigation has been performed regarding Farsi/Arabic characters recognition. Probably the reason is difficulty and complexity of those characters identification compared to th...

this article aims at describing three points on library and information science journals of iran: (1) how farsi library and information articles are produced and published in library and information science journals? in this regard, six routes of producing journals were investigated: the route of native culture; the route of the current status of book and library in iran; the route of the past ...

purpose: this study aimed to measure the information load of words in farsi scientific texts and determine the relationship between some properties of the words and information load of the texts based on shannon entropy. methodology: the study was conducted based on the content analysis of a number of 320 articles that were published in scientific-research iranian journals in 2009. and the arti...

CONTEXT Keeping in mind the burden of psychotherapy can play a crucial role concerning chronic pain (CP). Psychotherapy techniques are widely used to relief Chronic Pain (CP) worldwide. Appling psychotherapy needs to consider both individual and popular cultures. In addition to international requirements; nation-wide legitimacy should be regarded too. Psychological methods have provided a lot o...

We propose a real-time machine translation system that allows users to select a news category and to translate the related live news articles from Arabic, Czech, Danish, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish into English. The Moses-based system was optimised for the news domain and differs from other available systems in four ways: (1) News items are automatica...

The development of Language Engineering (LE) and Information Retrieval (IR) applications requires availability of sizeable, reliable and representative corpora. This paper describes how we have constructed a well-structured 345 MB tagged corpus of news, and presents some beneficial statistics of this corpus based upon the characteristics of Farsi language. It also goes into particular detail on...