Multi-part words in English language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. Persian language consists of multi-part words as well. Based on Persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. This common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

multi-part words in english language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. persian language consists of multi-part words as well. based on persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. this common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a widely used Information Retrieval method based on " bag-of-words " assumption. However, according to general conception, syntax plays a role in representing meaning of sentences. Thus, enhancing LSA with part-of-speech (POS) information to capture the context of word occurrences appears to be theoretically feasible extension. The approach is tested empiricall...

Traditionally in the vector space model of document representation for various IR (Information Retrieval) tasks, all the content words are used without considering their individual significance in the language. Such methods treat a document as a bag-of-words and do not exploit any language related information. It is obvious that considering such information in representing the documents can hel...