Pitch is often described metaphorically: for example, Farsi and Turkish speakers use a 'thickness' metaphor (low sounds are 'thick' and high sounds are 'thin'), while German and English speakers use a height metaphor ('low', 'high'). This study examines how child and adult speakers of Farsi, Turkish, and German map pitch and thickness using a cross-modal association task. All groups, except for...

In this paper a new algorithm for stemming in Farsi language is presented. This stemmer is based on removing the suffixes and prefixes but a database is used to save the exceptions to decrease error rate. In the proposed method the speed of stemmer and also the percentage of errors are improved. The evaluation results on a small Farsi document collection show significant improvement in precisio...

This research mainly considers and discusses system codepage in special techniques to multilingual processing of ancient Uighur literatures (Chagatai for abbreviation in the following text). Based on detailed analysis to Arabic code page, Farsi codepage and Uighur codepage in Unicode standard, we presented a codepage and keyboard layout, which is compatible with Chaghatai, Arabic, Farsi, Uighur...

In this paper, we propose a novel model for scoring reordering in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) and successfully use it for translation from Farsi into English and Arabic. The model replaces the distance-based distortion model that is widely used in most SMT systems. The main idea of the model is to penalize each new deviation from the monotonic translation path. We also pr...

In this research, we have investigated about prosodic features of Farsi (Persian) language and quantified major stress rules and some intonation rules for speech synthesis purpose. The research is mostly concentrated on pitch variations and then on durational changes. We have implemented the proposed simplified prosodic rules using a Klatt formant synthesizer, specially modified for Farsi phone...

Tajik Persian is a dialect of Persian spoken primarily in Tajikistan and written with a modified Cyrillic alphabet. Iranian Persian, or Farsi, as it is natively called, is the lingua franca of Iran and is written with the Persian alphabet, a modified Arabic script. Although the spoken versions of Tajik and Farsi are mutually intelligible to educated speakers of both languages, the difference be...

BACKGROUND Given the importance of regular physical activity, it is crucial to evaluate the factors favoring participation in physical activity. We aimed to report the psychometric analysis of the Farsi version of the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS). METHODS The Farsi version of PALMS was completed by 406 healthy adult individuals to test its factor structure and concur...

This paper will emphasize the necessity of having alternative man-machine interfaces to the already established keyboard and mouse, speciically for people residing in developing countries. An on-line system is presented for recognizing handwritten Farsi (Persian) and Arabic digits. This recognition scheme is based on statistical techniques which will be brieey explained. Then, the grounds will ...