The progress of communications over internet media such as social media and messengers has led to the production of large amount of textual data. This kind of information contains a lot of valuable knowledge and can be used to improve the performance of other NLP[1] tas...

Background and Objectives: Sign Language is a visual language that uses hand shapes, facial expression gestures, and body language for communication. Linguistic studies have shown that Sign Languages, like spoken languages, are natural and meet the communication needs o...

Keyword and phrase extraction is a prerequisite of many natural language processing tasks. However, a review on the related Persian and English literature showed that a few studies have already been done on how to extract keywords and phrases from Persian texts. Thus, A...

In the 20th Century, Nationalism entered the Muslim world as a modern phenomenon. The tendency towards nationalism, which was one of the factors weakening the Ottoman Empire, intensified after the fragmentation of the empire, especially in the form of Arab nationalism. ...

Background and Aim: Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause disease in humans and animals. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus. The World Health Organization has declared this infectio...

Background and Aim: The term “National Monuments” is a familiar title for today’s citizens. However, this term is not as old as nine decades. The first time, this term has been mentioned in the books of intellectual authors in the Qajar era. After the establishment of P...

Introduction: Meta-textuality can provide effective medium for facilitating information retrieval and machine learning. This study explored the strengths of two types of meta-texts (i.e., reviewers' comments and citation contexts) in correct classification and recogniti...

Background and Aim: ICU is one of the vital departments in the hospital to reduce mortality and morbidity. The department where nurses face complex situations that require decision-making skills. In fact, problem solving is an important and complex issue clinical practi...

A word is the smallest unit in the language that has 'form' and 'meaning'. The word might have more than one meaning in which its exact meaning is determined according to the context it is appeared. Collecting all words’ senses manually is a tedious and time consuming t...