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Low-density language strategies for Persian and Armenian [ abstract ]
To be published in Advances in Language Engineering for Low- and Middle-Density Languages, Sergei Nirenburg and Oleg Kapanadze (eds). IOS Press of Amsterdam.
Low-density language bootstrapping: The case of Tajiki Persian (with Dan Parvaz) [ abstract | pdf ] 
In Proceedings of LREC 2008 (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference). Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
The structure of Persian names [ abstract | pdf ] 
MITRE Technical Report (MP080034), Washington DC. February 2008.
Extending a Persian morphological analyzer to blogs. [ slides | pdf ]  (examples in Persian)
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Persian Language and Computers. Tehran University, Iran. June 28-30, 2006.
Finite-state morphological analysis of Persian [ abstract | pdf ]
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages. Coling 2004, University of Geneva. August 28, 2004.
Developing a Persian part-of-speech tagger [ slides | pdf ] (examples in Persian)
In Proceedings of First Workshop on Persian Language and Computers. Invited talk. Tehran University, Iran. May 25-26, 2004.
A semantic template for light verb constructions [ slides | pdf ] (examples in Persian)
In Proceedings of First Workshop on Persian Language and Computers. Invited talk. Tehran University, Iran. May 25-26, 2004.
Text Mining, Corpus Building and Testing.   [pdf]
In A Handbook for Language Engineers, edited by Ali Farghaly. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. 2003.
Developing a Persian text mining system.
Ms., Inxight Software, Sunnyvale. 2003.
Unification-Based Persian Morphology [ abstract | pdf ]
In Proceedings of CICLing 2000. Alexander Gelbukh, ed. Centro de Investigacion en Computacion-IPN, Mexico.
Rapid Development of Translation Tools: Applications to Persian and Turkish (with Jan W. Amtrup and Rémi Zajac)   [ abstract | ps ]
In Proceedings of COLING 2000, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Persian-English Machine Translation: An Overview of the Shiraz Project [ abstract | pdf ]
(with Jan W. Amtrup, Hamid Mansouri Rad, and Rémi Zajac)
NMSU, CRL, Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-319); 2000.
Persian Computational Morphology: A Unification-Based Approach [ abstract | pdf ]
NMSU, CRL, Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-320); 2000.
A Computational Analysis of the Persian Noun Phrase [ abstract | pdf ]
NMSU, CRL, Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-321); 2000.
Processing Persian Text: Tokenization in the Shiraz Project (with Remi Zajac) [ abstract | pdf ]
NMSU, CRL, Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science (MCCS-00-322); 2000.
Rapid Development of Translation Tools (with Jan W. Amtrup and Rémi Zajac) [ abstract | pdf ]
In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VII, Singapore. September 1999.
Complex Predicates
The status of the nominal in Persian complex predicates [ abstract ]
submitted to NLLT. Accepted.
Some of the ideas in this paper were originally presented at WECOL 2003 [handout ]
Transitivity alternation verbs and causative constructions in Eastern Armenian [pdf]
In Armenian Annual of Linguistics 21. 2005.
Beyond Words and Phrases: A Unified Theory of Predicate Composition
Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California. Order from USC Linguistics. 2002.
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    • Event Structure and Complex Predicates in Persian [ abstract | pdf ]
    In Canadian Journal of Linguistics 46 (1/2): 97-125. Special issue on the Syntax of Iranian languages. 2001.
    Aspect in complex predicates [abstract]
    Unpublished manuscript
    Case and vP Structure
    Parallel nominal and verbal projections [ abstract ]
    In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory: Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Robert Freidin, Carlos P. Otero and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (eds.); MIT Press, May 2008.
    Aspect and Partitive Objects in Finnish [ abstract | pdf ]
    In Proceedings of WCCFL 2000, Cascadilla Press.
    Projection of Direct Objects [ abstract | pdf ]
    In Proceedings of WECOL 1999.
    Asymmetries in Form and Meaning: Surface Realization and Interface Conditions [ pdf ]
    Unpublished manuscript
    Other
    Against Optional Wh-Movement (with Shadi Ganjavi) [ pdf ]
    In Proceedings of WECOL 2000, Volume 12.
    Proceedings
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-Based Languages (CAASL)
    CAASL1, held in University of Geneva, COLING 2004, August 28.
    CAASL2, held at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford University, July 2007.
    Proceedings available at CAASL website
    Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (with Leora Ann Bar-el).
    Held in University of Southern California, Cascadilla Press, 2001.
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