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...

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...

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 ...

Dynamically stable biped robots mimicking human locomotion have received significant attention over the last few decades. Formerly, the existence of stable periodic gaits for straight walking of passive biped walkers was well known and investigated as the notion of passive dynamic walking. This study is aimed to elaborate this notion in the case of three dimensional (3D) walking and extend it f...

In this paper,we report on our ongoing research for the development of a Unicode-based search engine for Farsi. The activities consist of an I/O subsystem, Farsi stemmer, test collection preparation, and the search engine itself. This engine is intended to be independent of the operating system platform using no special hardware or software. Weare further planning to tune the system for other l...

This paper describes Farsi word sense disambiguation in unrestricted text using decision list. Decision list is a rule based algorithm which searches for discriminatory features in the training data and extracts a set of rules. These rules are used for disambiguation of word senses. Since this method is a supervised corpus based method, it needs a Farsi sense-tagged corpus. In this paper, we us...

Handwritten character recognition is one of the focused areas of research in the field of Pattern Recognition. In this paper, a hybrid model of rough neural network has been developed for recognizing isolated Arabic/Farsi digital characters. It solves the neural network problems; proneness to overfitting, and the empirical nature of model development using rough sets and the dissimilarity analy...

Neural Networks are being used for character recognition from last many years but most of the work was confined to English character recognition. Till date, a very little work has been reported for Handwritten Farsi Character recognition. In this paper, we have made an attempt to recognize handwritten Farsi characters by using a multilayer perceptron with one hidden layer. The error backpropaga...

Pregnancy adds many sources of concerns to women's daily life worries. Excessive worry can affect maternal physiological and psychological state that influences the pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study was to validate the Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS) in a sample of Iranian pregnant women. After translation of the CWS, ten experts evaluated the items and added six items to the 17-item scale....