introduction: on the importance of the formant frequency, it is enough to say that the first three formants of a vowel and their internal relationships are the major components in detection of vowel type by listener. moreover, the quality of a vowel depends on its factorial frequencies. the main application of measuring factorial frequency is for description of vowel errors because recognizing ...

PURPOSE To develop and validate a Farsi version of Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) for the Iranian population. METHODS This study was a translation and cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Farsi version of OSDI. Four bilingual (English-Persian) individual including three physicians and one native English teacher were asked to translate the original English OSDI questionnaire in Far...

Cohesion as an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis and translation has aroused many researchers‟ interest. To explore the regularity in shifting conjunction devices from English into Farsi our study was designed to analyze the similarities and differences of cohesive device of conjunction between English International Law texts (ELTs) and their Farsi translation texts (FTTs)....

Elementary School Teachers’ Life Experience with the Challenges of Teaching in Farsi in Bilingual Areas   M. Ghaaderi, Ph.D.* K. Bolandhemmataan, Ph.D.** F. Havaasbeigi*** S. Babakaani****   To identify the challenges facing elementary school teachers in teaching bilingual students in Farsi, a group of 31 such teachers (14 of them men) ages 28-43 and 5-29 years of teachin...

According to Daily increase of the documents on the internet, automatic language detection is getting more important. In this paper we used language detection system to classify and filtering of the immoral web pages, based on their contents. This system could detect 10 most used languages in the immoral web pages, including FARSI language. As a technique we introduce a new combined method whic...

The Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire (YSEQ) had been developed from Group Environment Questionnaire, a well-known measure of team cohesion. The aim of this study was to adapt and examine the reliability and validity of the Farsi version of the YSEQ. This version was completed by 455 athletes aged 13-17 years. Results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that two-factor solution showed...

The recognition of Indian and Arabic handwriting is drawing increasing attention in recent years. To test the promise of existing handwritten numeral recognition methods and provide new benchmarks for future research, this paper presents some results of handwritten Bangla and Farsi numeral recognition on binary and gray-scale images. On proper pre-processing, feature extraction and classificati...

Background: The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) is a widely used tool for evaluation of psychosocial risk factors at work. The aims of this study were to describe the short version of Farsi COPSOQ and to present its psychometric properties. Methods: A total of 427 administrative health care staff participated in this descriptive methodological study. Forward-backward procedure wa...

Research in the letters of meanings to be mentioned; In order fulfill meaning for which it was set, but as a matter breadth that Arabic language enjoys, are characterized by deletion, degeneration, embedding or increase, this behavior is not without justification evidence, and what research will deal with taken from book “poetry” Abu Ali Al-Farsi model... deals phenomenon some detail his aforem...

This paper describes our participation to the Persian ad hoc search during the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. In this task, we suggest using a light suffix-stripping algorithm for the Farsi (or Persian) language. The evaluations based on different probabilistic models demonstrated that our stemming approach performs better than a stemmer removing only the plural suffixes, or statistically bette...