Lessons from building a Persian written corpus: Peykare

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-164

  Bijankhan, Mahmood ^a   Sheykhzadegan, Javad ^b   Bahrani, Mohammad ^c   Ghayoomi, Masood ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Research Center of Intelligent Signal Processing   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contemporary Persian; Corpus; EAGLES based tagset; Ezafe construction; Homographs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955540353     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-010-9132-x     Document Type: Article

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