In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

Objectives: The present study aimed to review the effects of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on elderly. In this study, we reviewed topics, such as causes COVID-19severity in elderly; psychological problems relationship between comorbidities and COVID-19 severity, comparison with other pandemics. Methods & Materials: This systematic was conducted 2020 by searching international...

background: men, much like women, are faced with age-related menopause-like symptoms as they age. in recent years, increasing attention has been drawn to clinical research into elderly men and their health-related quality of life. the aging male scales (ams) questionnaire is an international tool for assessing the health-related quality of life in elderly men. hence far this questionnaire has n...

Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, problems arise when we want to process an electronic text. In this paper, some of the common problems faced experimentally in developing a corpus for Persian are discussed. The sources of the problems are the Persian scrip...

The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the special and different nature of the Persian language compared to other languages like English, the design of information retrieval systems in Persian requires special considerations. However, there are relatively few studies on retrieval...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...

objectives: the present study investigated the factor structure of persian version of abstract functional gait assessment for identifying falling risk in iranian elderly. methods & materials: the study was designed 200 subjects divided into two falling history positive and falling history negative (each including 100 subjects). subjects were community-dwelling adults aged 60-90 years of tehran....