since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...

Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, problems arise when we want to process an electronic text. In this paper, some of the common problems faced experimentally in developing a corpus for Persian are discussed. The sources of the problems are the Persian scrip...

Nowadays, Wordnet is used in natural language processing as one of the major linguistic resources. Having such a resource for Persian language helps researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing fields to develop more accurate systems with higher performances. In this research, we propose a model for semi-automatic construction of Persian wordnet of verbs. Compound ve...

L-System is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar, which was introduced to be used in describing the behavior of plant cells, modeling the growth processes of plant development, the morphology of organisms, and generating self-similar fractals. The mentioned applications lie in the field of pattern formation. However, to the best of our knowledge, visual forming of a language...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

teaching the grammatical tenses is considered to be one of the most controversial challenges among teachers and researchers in teaching persian language to non-persian speakers. prioritizing the tenses in accordance with their frequency could greatly facilitate the process of language learning. in this research, a comparison has been made between the frequency of the tenses in spoken and writte...