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...

Abstract In this review essay, we compare five recent publications relating to dictionary work with Indigenous languages. The covers three dictionaries, one monograph about lexicography in service of language revitalization and the second volume a two-volume dictionary-cum-encyclopedia. structure essay is as follows: following brief introduction each languages covered these publications, includ...

Эти заметки являются продолжением темы, затронутой в статье В. Селегея Электронные словари и компьютерная лексикография. Речь пойдет о том, каким может быть электронный словарь, имеющий в качестве объекта описания близкородственные языки. Очевидно, такая постановка вопроса допускает несколько вариантов ответов, а единственным подтверждением правильности каждого из них мог бы стать словарь или с...

This paper explores two aspects of word use and word meaning in terms of Sinclair's (1991, 1998) distinction between the open-choice principle (or terminological tendency) and the idiom principle (or phraseological tendency). Technical terms such as strobilation are rare, highly domain-specific, and of little phraseological interest, although the texts in which such word occur do tend to contai...