The present research is a descriptive corpus-based translation study aiming at pinpointing the patterns of translation into Persian when dealing with English Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE). After scrutiny of the strategies applied by Persian translators some regular patterns were drawn, with the exception that the observed translation behavior may be taken as advantageous information for improving ...

The present corpus-based study addressed the strategies applied in translating the cultural elements (CEs) of the Iranian ‘resistance’ literature into English. The corpus comprised Chess with the Doomsday Machine, Eternal Fragrance, and Fortune Told in Blood translated by Sprachman, Omidvar, and Ghanoonparvar, re- spectively. The Persian books and their English translations were analyzed on thr...

Development of robust spoken language technology ideally relies on the availability of large amounts of data preferably in the target domain and language. However, more often than not, speech developers need to cope with very little or no data, typically obtained from a different target domain. This paper focuses on developing techniques towards addressing this challenge. Specifically we consid...

In modern society Internet has become the most popular and efficient communication media. Most of the Internet resources are available on English language. However, English fluency rate in majority of the countries is not up to a satisfactory level. In Sri Lanka, it was observed that the English fluency rate has been reduced over past 30 years. Therefore the neediness of an English-to-Sinhala t...

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) relies on the availability of rich parallel corpora. However, in the case of under-resourced languages or some specific domains, parallel corpora are not readily available. This leads to under-performing machine translation systems in those sparse data settings. To overcome the low availability of parallel resources the machine translation community has rec...

This paper is an attempt to exclusively focus on investigating the pivot language technique in which a bridging language is utilized to increase the quality of the Persian–Spanish low-resource Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). In this case, English is used as the bridging language, and the Persian–English SMT is combined with the English–Spanish one, where the relatively large corpora of e...

As society becomes increasingly dependent on literacy, the problems of textual information inaccessible to print-impaired people are likely to grow. This paper discusses the problems of decentralised, user-driven Braille translation and proposes an alternative: The centralised, email-based RoboBraille service capable of translating to and from contracted Braille, including any preor post proces...

In this paper we describe and evaluate the corpora submitted to the PAN 2015 shared task on plagiarism detection for text alignment. We received monoand cross-language corpora in the following languages (pairs): English, Persian, Chinese, and Urdu-English, English-Persian. We present an independent section for each submitted corpus including statistics, discussion of the obfuscation techniques ...

In this paper we describe and evaluate the corpora submitted to the PAN 2015 shared task on plagiarism detection for text alignment. We received monoand cross-language corpora in the following languages (pairs): English, Persian, Chinese, and Urdu-English, English-Persian. We present an independent section for each submitted corpus including statistics, discussion of the obfuscation techniques ...