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Abedinzadeh, Sadra    Edit
صدرا عابدین زاده
Email:abedinzs [at] cs dot uregina dot ca
Home page:http://www.sadra.info
Education:Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; B.Sc. in Computer Sciences, University of Tehran
Affiliation:University of Regina
Interests:Cross Language Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Agent & Multi Agent Systems

Afkhami, Ali    Edit
علی افخمی
Dr. Afkhami is Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University, where he also serves as the head of the Central Library and Documentation Center.
Email:aafkhami at ut dot ac dot ir
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Paris (1985)
Affiliation:Tehran University
Interests:Sociolinguistics, discourse.

Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows    Edit
فردوس آقاگلزاده
Dr. Aghagolzadeh is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University.
Email:Aghagolz at modares dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://www.modares.ac.ir/fhum/Aghagolz/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University
Affiliation:Tarbiat Modares University
Interests:Applied linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis

Ahadi, Shahram    Edit
شهرام احدی
Dr. Ahadi is currently teaching Persian language at the University of Freiburg and the University of Bonn, in Germany
Education:MA Bonn, Phd Bamberg/Germany
Affiliation:University of Freiburg
Interests:Syntax, compound verb, valency, dependency grammar, language teaching (Persian as a foreign language), mono- and bilingual lexicography.

Ahmadi, Amir    Edit
Email:aemeer at hotmail dot com
Education:M.A student in general linguistics
Interests:semiotics, stylistics, discourse analysis

Ahmadvand, Moslem    Edit
مسلم احمدوند

Email:ahmadvand at znu dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://www.ahmadvand.tk
Education:BA in English Literature, MA student of Applied Linguistics
Affiliation:University of Zanjan
Interests:Syntax, Language Acquisition, Biolinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science.

Akhlaghi, Faryar    Edit
Email:faryar dot a at gmail dot com
Home page:http://www.ichto.ir/...e/fa-IR/Default.aspx
Education:PHD in General Linguistics, Pazhuheshgahe Olume Ensani
Affiliation:Instructor at Pazhuheshkadeye Zabanshenasi
Interests:Typology, Syntax, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics

Alaayi Aboozar, Elham    Edit
Ms. Alaayi is currently teaching English at Tehran university and has recently worked on Persian separable compound verbs in corpus linguistics.
Email:elham_alaee2000 at yahoo dot com
Education:ph.D student in general linguistics at university of Tehran
Affiliation:Tehran university
Interests:corpus linguistics,computational linguistics, phonology,syntax and morphology

AleAhmad, Abolfazl    Edit
ابوالفضل آل احمد

Email:a dot aleahmad at ece dot ut dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~a.aleahmad
Education:M.Sc. University of Tehran
Affiliation:University of Tehran - DBRG Lab.
Interests:Persian Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web

Alinezhad, Batool    Edit
Email:b dot alinezhad at fgn dot ui dot ac dot ir
Education:Ph.D in general Linguisics
Affiliation:University of Isfahan
Interests:Phonetics and phonology

Amiri, Hadi    Edit
هادی امیری

Email:h dot amiri at ece dot ut dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~h.amiri/
Education:M.Sc, Software Engineering. University of Tehran
Affiliation:Database Research Group, University of Tehran
Interests:Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Federated Search, Conceptual Search

Amouzadeh, Mohammad    Edit
محمد عموزاده

Email:amouzadeh dot m at gmail dot com
Education:Ph.D in Linguistics, Adelaide University (1997)
Affiliation:Isfahan University
Interests:Persian Linguistics, sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, semiotics, cognitive linguistics

Amtrup, Jan    Edit
Jan is Research Operations Manager at Kofax Image Products. He was chief architect on the Shiraz project, an English to Persian MT prototype and he is currently working on a Persian morphological analyzer and tagger.
Email:jamtrup at literatim dot org
Home page:http://www.literatim.org/jamtrup
Education:PhD in Computer Science from Hamburg University, Germany 1998
Affiliation:Kofax Image Products
Interests:Architecture of NLP systems, Parsing with Unification-based grammars, Machine Translation, classification

Anonby, Erik    Edit
Email:e dot anonby at let dot leidenuniv dot nl
Home page:http://anonby.balafon.net
Education:D.Litt Leiden University
Affiliation:Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Interests:contact linguistics, dialectology, Southern Luri, Kumzari, Minabi, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, descriptive linguistics

Aryadoust, Seyed Vahid    Edit
سید وحید آریادوست

Email:ng0666907m at stdmail dot nie dot edu dot sg
Home page:http://vahidaryadoust.blogspot.com/
Education:PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics
Affiliation:National Institute of Education, Singapore
Interests:Validation; Langauge Assessment; Rasch Measurement; SEM

Asudeh, Ash    Edit
اش آسوده
Dr. Asudeh is currently an Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Canada.
Email:ash_asudeh at carleton dot ca
Home page:http://http-server.carleton.ca/~asudeh/
Education:Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Linguistics.
Affiliation:Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) & School of Linguistics and Applied Language, Carleton University
Interests:Syntax, Semantics, Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories and Grammatical Architecture, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

Azadmanesh, Nematollah    Edit
Email:n_azadmanesh2001 at yahoo dot com
Education:MA: Linguistics, Ph.D: Translation
Affiliation:Chamran Technical Teacher Training College of Kerman
Interests:Discourse Analysis, Translation, Syntax, Phonology, Morphology, Dialectology

Azizian, Yunes    Edit
Email:yunes at mail dot com
Education:MA in linguistics
Affiliation:Institute for humanities and cultural sciences of Iran
Interests:I am working on my thesis. I am interested in the interface between music and language.
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Babrakzai, Farooq    Edit
Dr. Babrakzai is a Pashto specialist at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.
Education:Phd in Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (1999)
Affiliation:DLI
Interests:Pashto syntax

Badakhshan, Ebrahim    Edit
Currently working on his PhD thesis.
Email:ebadakhshan at uok dot ac dot ir ; badakhshane at gmail dot com
Home page:http://uok.ac.ir/Hom...UOKPortal&Lang=fa-IR
Education:PhD Student in Linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabataba'ee University
Interests:Morphological productivity,Compounding,Corpus Linguistics

Baghinipour, Majid    Edit
مجید باغینی پور
Mr. Baghinipour is the webmaster for http://www.kkhec.ac.ir/, a website on Iranian linguistics.
Email:mbaghinipour at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://baghinipour.blogfa.com/
Education:MA Allameh Tabatabai
Interests:Discourse analysis, Syntax, Kermani dialect

Bahadur, Muhamad Reza    Edit
Email:muhamadreza dot bahadur at gmail dot com
Education:MA Student of General Linguistics
Affiliation:Razi university
Interests:Kurdish language, Inflected languages, Syntax, Lexicography

Baloch, Hamid Ali    Edit
Hamid Ali Baloch teaches Linguistics in the Balochi Department University of Balochistan.
Email:balochi_department at yahoo dot com
Education:M.A M.phil in Balochi Linguistics
Interests:Balochi, Dialectology and Lexicography

Barjasteh, Darab    Edit
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests:Compound verbs, syntax

Bateni, Mohammad Reza    Edit
ﻤﺤﻤﺪﺭﻀﺎ ﺒﺎﻄﻨﻰ
Dr. Bateni is a retired professor of Tehran University.
Education:PhD in Linguistcs, College University, London

Bazyar, Mehdi    Edit
Mehdi Bazyar is currently a PhD Student in linguistics at Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran.
Email:bazyarm60 at yahoo dot com
Education:MA in General linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabai University
Interests:Neurolinguistics, Functional Linguistics, Language processing and Discourse.

Bijankhan, Mahmood    Edit
محمود بی جن خان
Dr. Bijankhan is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University.
Email:mbjkhan at ut dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://literature.ut...ankhan/bijankhan.htm
Education:PhD in Linguistics, Tehran University (1996)
Affiliation:Tehran University
Interests:Phonetics, phonology, corpus linguistics

Borjian, Habib    Edit
Email:hb146 at columbia dot edu
Education:PhD Iranian Languages; Yerevan State University; 2004
Affiliation:Caucasian Center for Iranian Studies
Interests:Central Plateau Dialects (CDs), Caspian Languages, NW Iranian, historical linguistics, dialectology

Boroumand, Nooshin    Edit
Ms. Boroumand is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa.
Email:nboro096 at uottawa dot ca , nooshin_boroumand at yahoo dot com
Education:MA in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) from Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
Affiliation:University of Ottawa
Interests:Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition (vocabulary acquisition)
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Cagri, Ilhan    Edit
Email:ilhancagri at gmail dot com
Education:Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park. Major area: syntax. Minor area: psycholinguistics.
Affiliation:University of Maryland
Interests:Theoretical syntax. Specialties: Turkish and Persian. Language testing.
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Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad    Edit
محمد دبیرمقدم
Dr. Dabir-Moghaddam is Professor of linguistics at Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran.
Email:dabir_mo dot HUM dot TMU at net1cs dot modares dot ac dot ir
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabai University
Interests:Persian syntax, causative constructions, compound verbs, typology

Darrudi, Ehsan    Edit
Email:darrudi at insf dot org
Education:MSC, Tehran University, Computer Eng, 2005, Iran
BSC, Ferdowsi University, Computer Eng, 2002, Tehran, Iran
Affiliation:Iran National Science Foundation
Interests:Farsi Language (Hamshahri Corpus), Artificial Intelligence

Darzi, Ali    Edit
علی درزی
Dr. Darzi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University.
Email:adarzi at ut dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://literature.ut...bers/darzi/darzi.htm
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996)
Affiliation:Tehran University
Interests:Syntax, control structures

Davar, Mehran    Edit
مهران داور
Teaching English as a Second language
Email:melvynet at yahoo dot com
Education:M.A. in General Linguistics.
Affiliation:University of Tehran
Interests:Philosophy of Language, Language Policy, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science, Processing, Information Retrieval,Conceptual Search,Computational Linguistics,Fast Reading Skills, Study Methods development,Language Testing and Assessment, Learning Strategies and etc.

Davari, Negar    Edit
associate lecturer; linguistics department of Shahid Beheshti University; project on "language planning in Iran"
Email:n dot davari at yahoo dot com, n_davari at sbu dot ac dot ir
Education:phd, Tehran University
Affiliation:sociolinguistics
Interests:sociolinguistics (language planning), discourse analysis, terminology and persian morphology, lexicography, language for specific purpose

Dehdari, Jon    Edit
Mr. Dehdari is a PhD student at the Linguistics Department of the Ohio State University.
Email:jonsafari at ling dot osu dot edu
Home page:http://ling.osu.edu/~jonsafari
Education:Masters, Brigham Young University
Affiliation:The Ohio State University
Interests:computational linguistics, syntax, morphology, formal languages, typology

Dehghani, Yavar    Edit
Email:yadeh at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD, La Trobe, Melbourne
Affiliation:Council for Adult Education
Interests:Persian grammar, second langauge learning, translation, speech disorders

Delarami, Mansure    Edit
Education:MA in General Linguistics
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University, Olum-Tahghighat branch, Tehran
Interests:Syntax, Phonology, Dialectology
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Ebadat, Ali Reza    Edit
Working on Pars Translator (English to Persian Machine Translation)
Email:arezae at yahoo dot com
Education:Nancy University (2008-2009)and Saarland University (2007-2008), Master student in Computational Linguistics, Erasmus Mundus scholarship B.S ,Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Affiliation:Nancy University
Interests:Machine Translation, Statistical Natural Language Processing

Emadi, Mehdi    Edit
Email:m dot emadi at ece dot ut dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://khorshid.ece.ut.ac.ir/~emadi/
Education:MS. Software Engineering
Affiliation:University of Tehran, Database Research Group
Interests:Text Mining (Clustering, Classification), Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Data Management

Erschler, David    Edit
Email:erschler at gmail dot com
Education:PhD in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, 2007
Affiliation:Independent University of Moscow, Russia
Interests:Syntax of Ossetic, Typology, Language contacts

Esfahbod, Behdad    Edit
Mr. Esfahbod was a developer on the FarsiWeb Project on internationalization and Persian localization, and is co-founder of Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. He is also a contributor to the FarsiTex project.
Email:behdad at behdad dot org
Home page:http://behdad.org/
Education:MS in Computer Science, University of Toronto
Affiliation:Red Hat, Canada
Interests:Developing computer tools for Persian script.

Eslami, Moharram    Edit
محرم اسلامی
Assistant Professor at Zanjan University, Now we (my research team and I) are developing Persian Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis program named GOOYA.
Email:meslami at mail dot znu dot ac dot ir
Education:PhD,Linguistics, Tehran University, 2000.
Affiliation:Zanjan University
Interests:Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Persian Linguisics, Natural Language Processing(NLP), Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis.

Eslami, Zohreh R.    Edit
Email:zeslami at tamu dot edu
Home page:http://directory.ceh...view.epl?nid=zrasekh
Education:PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
Affiliation:Texas A&M University
Interests:Pragmatics of Persian Language, Speech Acts in Persian, Politeness in Persian, Intercultural Pragmatics, Inerlanguage Pragmatics, ESL/EFL Teacher Education

Esmaili, Abolfazl    Edit
Email:Abolfazl1364 at gmail dot com
Education:B.A in English translation
Affiliation:Bandarabbas University
Interests:Teaching methodology and linguistics
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Family, Neiloufar    Edit
Email:neiloufar [at ] gmail [dot ] com
Home page:http://nfamily.free.fr
Education:PhD in Cognitive Science EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris
Interests:Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics

Farudi, Annahita    Edit
Ms. Farudi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a researcher on the Dari Language Project.
Email:afarudi at linguist dot umass dot edu
Home page:http://people.umass.edu/afarudi/
Affiliation:University of Massachusetts
Interests:syntactic theory, formal semantics, and Iranian languages.

Fattahi, Mehdi    Edit
Email:mehdifattahi3 at gmail dot com
Home page:http://zaban84.blogspot.com
Education:MA Student of General Linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabai University
Interests:Kurdish Studies

Fazeli, Seyed Hossein    Edit
Mr. Fazeli is currently pursuing a PhD in Applied Linguistics.
Email:fazeli78 at yahoo dot com
Education:B.A in English Teaching,MA in Theoretical Linguisticsx
Affiliation:University of Mysore
Interests:Psycholinguistics related to Language learning and teaching in foreign language instruction and acquisition. Research methodology about the process of foreign language learning

Fazly, Afsaneh    Edit
Dr. Fazly is a post-doctoral fellow at the Computer Science department of the University of Toronto, working in the computational linguistics and computational vision groups.
Email:afsaneh at cs dot toronto dot edu
Home page:http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~afsaneh
Education:PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto (2006)
Affiliation:University of Toronto
Interests:Computational Lexical semantics; acquisition, representation and automatic processing of multiword expressions.

Foroodi-Nejad, Farzaneh    Edit
Email:farzaneh at ualberta dot ca
Home page:http://www.ualberta.ca/~farzaneh/
Education:PhD student in Developmental Psycholinguistics
Affiliation:University of Alberta, Canada
Interests:Specific language impairment in children, child first/second language acquisition, psycholinguistics
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Ganjavi, Shadi    Edit
Dr. Ganjavi is a faculty member in the Linguistics/TESL program at CSUN
Email:shadi dot ganjavi at csun dot edu
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Southern California (2007)
Affiliation:California State University, Northridge
Interests:syntax, syntax/semantics interface, language development, Persian linguistics

Gazsi, Denes    Edit
Denes Gazsi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Iranian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, ELTE University of Budapest in Hungary. Gazsi's research focuses on Arabic language elements in Persian, modern Persian spoken dialects, and diglossia in Iran.
Email:gdenes at elte dot hu
Education:MA, Iranian Languages and Literature; ELTE University of Budapest, Hungary; MA, Arabic Language and Literature; ELTE University of Budapest, Hungary
Affiliation:ELTE University of Budapest
Interests:Orientalism, Languages and literature, Dialectology

Gerami, Shahram    Edit
Email:shahram115 at yahoo dot com
Education:Allameh Tabatabai
Affiliation:Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology
Interests:Iranian dialects, syntax, language documentation.

Gerami Tayebi, Marziyeh    Edit
Email:gerami_mrz at yahoo dot com
Education:BA in English translation,MA in general linguistcs
Affiliation:chamran university,azzahra university
Interests:phonetics, phonology, syntax, dialectology

Ghafel, Banafsheh    Edit
Email:b dot ghafel at gmail dot com
Education:MA student of TEFL
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University of Najaf-Abad
Interests:Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, intercultural & crosscultural studies, language teaching

Ghalaati, Amirreza    Edit
Email:translating at ymail dot com
Education:MA in Language Practice: "Translation", 2009
Affiliation:University of the Free State
Interests:sociolinguistics, Narrative and ideology in Translation, tracing problems in translation and search for solution, critical studies in Translation

Ghayoomi, Masood    Edit
مسعود قیومی
Masood Ghayoomi is currently a PhD student at Freie University of Berlin, Germany working on Persian HPSG under supervision of Stefan Müller.
Email:masood dot ghayoomi at fu-berlin dot de
Home page:http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~ghayoomi/
Education:M.S. in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University, Germany, (2008-2009).
M.S. in Computational Linguistics at Nancy2 University, France, (2007-2008).
EuroMaster Erasmus Mundus p
Affiliation:Freie University of Berlin, Germany
Interests:Syntax (HPSG), Computational Linguistics, Language Modeling, Machine Learning Techniques

Gholami, Hamid    Edit
Email:hamid_gholami7 at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD Candidate in TEFL. Islamic Azad University of Khorasgan
Affiliation:Kermanshah Jahad Daneshgahi
Interests:Task based instruction, Connectionism, Linguistics

Ghomeshi, Jila    Edit

ژيلا قميشی
Dr. Ghomeshi is an Associate Professor in the department of Linguistics at University of Manitoba, Canada. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for the Humanities.
Email:ghomeshi at cc dot umanitoba dot ca
Home page:http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~ghomeshi/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Toronto
Affiliation:University of Manitoba
Interests:Linguistic theory, phrase structure, syntax-pragmatics interface, syntax-morphology interface.

Gladkikh, Vladislav    Edit
Email:vladgladkikh at gmail dot com
Home page:http://beyondtheclouds.byethost3.com
Education:Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Interests:Languages of North-Eastern Afghanistan

Golshaie, Ramin    Edit
Email:ramin dot golshaie at gmail dot com
Home page:http://sites.google.com/site/golshaie/
Education:PhD student of linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University
Affiliation:Tarbiat Modares University (TMU)
Interests:Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Connectionist Modeling

Guizzo, Daniele    Edit
Email:daniguiz at libero dot it
Education:Degree in Oriental languages (Persian, Arabic, Pashto); PhD in Iranian Studies
Affiliation:Ca' Foscari University - Venice; Bologna University
Interests:Iranian dialectology (Kurdish, Taleshi, Northern Tajik, Yaghnobi); Onomasiology
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Hafezi Manshadi, Mehdi    Edit
Mr. Hafezi Manshadi is a PhD student working with Prof. James F. Allen.
Home page:http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~mehdih/
Education:M.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2002)
Affiliation:University of Rochester
Interests:Speech and Natural Language Processing.

Hafezian, Mohsen    Edit
Email:mohsen dot hafezian at yahoo dot fr
Education:Postdoctoral Internship in the Department of Didactics, University of Montreal (September 2004-September 2005). Postdoctoral Internship in the Department of Didactics, University of Montréal (Octob
Affiliation:University of Concordia
Interests:Persian and French Linguistics, Morphology, Hermeneutics

Haghdoust, Zeinab    Edit
Email:zeinab dot haghdoust at gmail dot com
Education:BA in English translation
Affiliation:University of Qom
Interests:Neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, Phonetics and phonology, Stylistics

Haig, Geoffrey    Edit
Dr. Haig works on several research projects at Kiel, Germany documenting endangered languages.
Email:haig at linguistik dot uni-kiel dot de
Home page:http://www.linguisti...uni-kiel.de/haig.htm
Education:PhD at University of Bamberg (1998)
Affiliation:Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Interests:Turkic and Iranian languages, focusing on morphology and syntax, areal typology, historical development, language policy

Hamedani, Ladan    Edit
Currently a part-time lecturer of Persian Language at McGill University
Email:ladan dot hamedani at mcgill dot ca
Education:Ph.D.Candidate of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Affiliation:McGill University
Interests:Second Language Acquisition, Syntax, Pedagogy

Hassan, Hashemi    Edit
Email:hasashemi at bnd dot com
Education:M.A student in linguistics
Affiliation:English Language Department, Bandarabbas University
Interests:neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics

Heidari-Darani, Laya    Edit
Email:l dot heidari at khuisf dot ac dot ir; laya1978 at yahoo dot com
Education:Ph.D Candidate in TEFL at Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran
Affiliation:English Language Department, Azad University, Falavarjan Branch, Isfahan, Iran
Interests:Persian Syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

Hillmann, Michael Craig    Edit
Home page:https://webspace.ute...as.edu/hillmann/www/
Education:PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Chicago (1974)
Affiliation:Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Interests:Persian language instructional materials development and language program design, sociolinguistics
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Ido, Shinji    Edit
Dr. Ido is a Professor at the School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Sydney.
Email:shinji dot ido at arts dot usyd dot edu dot au
Home page:http://ido.ifdef.jp/
Affiliation:University of Sydney
Interests:Tajiki and Uzbek
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Jadidinejad, Amir Hossein    Edit
امير حسين جديدي نژاد
Email:amir dot jadidi at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://www.jadidi.info/
Education:M.Sc. in Software Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Qazvin.
Affiliation:Computer Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University
Interests:Persian Information Retrieval, WIKI Corpus, Statistical Machine Learning, Knowledge Retrieval

Jahani, Carina    Edit
Dr. Jahani is professor of Iranian Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Email:carina dot jahani at lingfil dot uu dot se
Home page:http://www.lingfil.u...rsonal/carinajahani/
Education:PhD in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University (1989)
Affiliation:Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Interests:Iranian languages, typology, language policy, Balochi

Jamshidi-fard, Saman    Edit
سامان جمشیدی فرد

Email:Saman at jfard dot com
Education:PhD candidate in Sociolinguistics (Language policy and planning) MA Applied Linguistics for language teaching (2004), University of Southampton, UK BA Translational Studies (2003), Azad University
Affiliation:University of Southampton, UK
Interests:LPLP (Language policy and planning), English language policy in Muslim countries. English as an International language, English as a lingua franca, and of course 'Linguistic Imperialism'.

Jamshidnejad, Alireza    Edit
Email:jamshidnejad at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics, University of Kent in Canterbury, England; MA Applied Linguitic for Language Teaching, University of Southampton, England
Affiliation:University of Kent in Canterbury (UKC)
Interests:Oral Interaction discourse, Disourse analysis, Sociolinguitic and Pragmatic study in EFL context, TEFL & TESOL study

javidanmehr, zahra    Edit
Email:javidanmehr at yahoo dot com
Education:MA student in TEFL
Affiliation:Shiraz University
Interests:Bilingualism,First Language acquisition,sociolinguistics,postmethod era,
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Kahnemuyipour, Arsalan    Edit
ارسلان کهنمويی پور
Dr. Kahnemuyipour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Syracuse University
Email:akahnemu at syr dot edu
Home page:http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~akahnemu/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Toronto
Affiliation:Syracuse University
Interests:Syntax; Morphology; Syntax and prosody interface; Persian (not Farsi!)

Karim, Hamid Reza    Edit
Ph.D Student, UTM University, Malaysia
Email:hamidrezakarim at gmail dot com
Education:MA Linguistics ,Tehran University
Affiliation:UTM University
Interests:Task-Based , Preemptive focus on form , Methodology

Karimi, Simin    Edit
سيمين کريمی
Dr. Karimi is a Professor in the department of Linguistics at University of Arizona. She is also Faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program, the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).
Email:karimi at U dot Arizona dot edu
Home page:http://www.u.arizona.edu/~karimi/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, Washington University
Affiliation:University of Arizona
Interests:Minimalist Program, word order and scrambling, complex predicates, raising and control, sluicing, syntax and semantics of modals

Karimi, Yadgar    Edit
Email:y dot karimi at hotmail dot com / y dot karimi at uok dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://kyadgar.googlepages.com/home
Education:PhD student in Linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabaii University
Interests:Syntax and morphology of Iranian languages, in particular Kurdish.

Karimi-Doostan, Gholamhossein    Edit
غلامحسین کریمی دوستان
Email:gh5karimi at uok dot ac dot ir
Home page:www.uok.ac.ir
Education:PhD in linguistics, Essex university, England
Affiliation:University of Kurdistan
Interests:Persian, Kurdish, Complex Predicates, Lexical categories

Kaveh Yazdy, Fatemeh    Edit
فاطمه کاوه یزدی

Email:kavehy_f at yahoo dot com
Education:Bsc. in Software Engineering,Yazd University, Yazd, Iran Msc. Student, Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran , Iran
Affiliation:Speech Processing Lab. , Sharif Uni. of Tech.
Interests:Natural Language Understanding (Especially in semantic and Pragmatic levels of Processing), Information Retrieval/Extraction , Data/Text Mining, Bioinformatics, Data Visualization

Keshtiari, Niloofar    Edit
Doing her Master in TEFL, Niloofar started teaching English as an invited lecturer in Azad University Tehran central branch in 2002 and continued her job as an English teacher there as well as in other universities till Aug. 2008 when she moved to Europe to study Clinical Linguistics. At the moment she is working on "The Effect of Re-Activation on Dependency Resolution in Farsi " with Professor Dr. Shravan Vasishth in Potsdam University.
Email:n dot keshtiari at gmail dot com
Education:• MSc in Clinical Linguistics Erasmus Mundus (EMCL) 2008-2009, University of Groningen and Potsdam University • MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), IAU
Affiliation:Potsdam University, Germany
Interests:Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition, TEFL

Khalil, Motallebzadeh    Edit
Prof. Motallebzadeh is Iran's official representative to Asia TEFL and an active member of Asia CALL.
Email:kmotallebz at gmail dot com
Education:PhD in TEFL, Islamic Azad University, 2000
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University (IAU)
Interests:language testing, teacher education, and e-learning

Korn, Agnes    Edit
Dr. Korn is teaching in the comparative languages department at Frankfurt University.
Email:a dot korn at em dot uni-frankfurt dot de
Home page:http://titus.uni-fra...de/personal/korn.htm
Affiliation:University Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Interests:Iranian languages with specialization on Baluchi, language contact, historical linguistics, typology

Koutlaki, Sofia A.    Edit
Koutlaki's book Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran's Customs and Culture is being published by Intercultural Press/Nicholas Brealey (26 Feb 2010 in the US, 25 March 2010 in the UK)
Email:sakoutlaki at yahoo dot co dot uk
Home page:http://sites.google..../site/sofiaakoutlaki
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1997
Affiliation:Independent Researcher
Interests:Persian politeness and face; cross-cultural communication; intercultural pragmatics; Iranian everyday life, culture and worldview

Kwak, Saera    Edit
Saera Kwak is currently a research professor of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Email:smartsaera at hotmail dot com
Education:Ph.D (Tehran Univ.)
Affiliation:Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, Korea)
Interests:Syntax, Lexical semantics, Negation
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Lachini, Kourosh    Edit
Kourosh Lachini teaches academic and research paper writing and is also the supervisor of Test Item Quality Analysis team at QU. He is currently an associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal and has been awarded the Best of TESOL Arabia (2005) certificate for the excellence of research.
Email:klachini at gmail dot com
Home page:www.kourosh-lachini.com
Education:Ph D in Applied Linguistics, IAU, Campus of Science and Research, Tehran (1997)
Affiliation:University of Qatar
Interests:Language Testing and Assessment, Learning Strategies (Metacognition), Critical Thinking, and Discourse Analysis

Larson, Richard    Edit
Within Iranian linguistics, Prof. Larson is working on the Ezafe construction in Persian.
Email:Richard dot Larson at stonybrook dot edu
Home page:http://semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu/~rlarson/
Education:Ph.D. 1983, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Affiliation:Stony Brook University
Interests:semantics, syntax

Lotfi, Ahmad Reza    Edit
Dr. Lotfi is a faculty member of the English Department at Azad University at Khorasgan (Esfahan, Iran). He has been developing a radically minimalist theory of syntax. The original outline of the theory is available online as an unpublished manuscript (Semantico-Phonetic Form: A Unitarianist Grammar) via the link below: URL: http://cogprints.org/1669
Email:arlotfi at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://www.geocities...lotfi/lotfipage.html
Affiliation:Azad University at Khorasgan
Interests:minimalist syntax, second language acquisition studies in generative grammar, and Iranian linguistics.
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Mahjani, Behzad    Edit
Mr. Behzad is currently working on algorithms for Persian (Farsi) information retrieval.
Email:behzad at tima dot ca
Home page:http://www.timasearch.com/bm/
Education:MA in Linguistics from University of Tehran; M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing from University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Affiliation:University of Edinburgh
Interests:Natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on Persian.

Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz    Edit
Email:b_m_bakhtiari at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://bakhtiari.8m.net/
Affiliation:Tehran University
Interests:Iranian languages; typology and dialectology; teaching Persian and English; translation.

Mahmoodzade, Zahra    Edit
Email:zmahmoodzadeh at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD in linguistics, Tehran University (2009)
Interests:Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology

Mahootian, Shahrzad    Edit
Dr. Mahootian is Professor of Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University
Email:s-mahootian at neiu dot edu
Education:PhD in Linguistics, Northwestern
Affiliation:Northeastern IIllinois University
Interests:Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

Malek Mohammadi, Mohammad    Edit
Dr. Malek Mohammadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Armenian & German Languages at Isfahan University in Iran and is currently the Head of the Department of Armenian & German Languages.
Email:malekm_m at armn dot ui dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://www.fgn.ui.ac...HP/Htmls/f_malek.htm
Education:Doctor of Philology, Yerevan State University-National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; 2005
Affiliation:University of Isfahan
Interests:Armenian and Iranian Linguistics, Armenian Language History

Maleki, Jalal    Edit
Mr. Maleki is a senior lecturer in computer science. He is currently working on Persian syllabification and automatic conversion between Romanized and Perso-Arabic writing systems.
Email:jma at ida dot liu dot se
Education:MPhil. Computer Science, Linkoping (1987)
Affiliation:Linkoping University, Sweden
Interests:Persian Orthography, Automatic Conversion between Writing Systems

Marashi, Mehdi    Edit
Dr. Marashi has taught Persian at the University of Texas, the University of Utah and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Marashi was an instructor of Persian at the U.S. Defense Language Institute prior to retiring.
Education:PhD, U. of Texas Austin (1970)
Interests:Persian language teaching

Megerdoomian, Karine    Edit
کارينه مگردوميان - Կարինե Մկրտումյան
Dr. Megerdoomian is a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE, a research and development center in the US.
Email:karine at zoorna dot org
Home page:http://www.zoorna.org
Education:BS in Physics, PhD in Linguistics; University of Southern California (2002)
Affiliation:MITRE
Interests:Persian and Armenian. Computational linguistics and complex predicates.

Mehdad, Yashar    Edit
Email:mehdad at fbk dot eu
Home page:http://www.dit.unitn...people/uinfo?id=1343
Education:PhD Student, Human Language Technology (Computational Linguistics), University of Trento, 2008 till 2011
Affiliation:University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Interests:Natural Language Processing, Semantic, Text Processing, Textual Entailment, Meaning Extraction, Summarization, Question Answering.

Menason, Saeed    Edit
Email:smenason at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Essex
Affiliation:University of Essex, UK
Interests:Persian and Azeri, with particular interest in the politeness manifestation in these languages

Mesrian, Ali    Edit
Email:mesrian at yahoo dot com
Education:MA in Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran
Affiliation:Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature; Islamic Azad University at North Tehran
Interests:Persian, English; Translation studies, literary translation, translation and culture, terminology, lexicography; Sociolinguistics, language planning.

Minuchehr, Pardis    Edit
Email:pardis at sas dot upenn dot edu
Education:Columbia University, Ph.D. (1998), Persian Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Affiliation:University of Pennsylvania
Interests:Persian language and literature

Mir Mohammad Ali, Behnaz    Edit
Email:behnazm at mail dot com
Education:MA in Linguistics, Tehran University
Affiliation:Tehran University
Interests:Syntax, LF, wh-movement, scrambling, Persian.

Modarres Khiabani, Shahram    Edit
Email:shmodarress at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD in General Linguistics, Allame Tabataba'i University
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University, Karaj branch
Interests:Collocation, Morpholology, Semantics, Historical linguistics

Modarresi, Yahya    Edit
Dr. Modarresi is the director of the Linguistics department of the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, Iran. The aim of this group is to conduct theoretical and applied linguistics studies on Persian and Iranian dialects.
Education:PhD in Linguistics, Kansas University
Affiliation:Institute for humanities and cultural studies, Tehran, Iran
Interests:Persian sociolinguistics, language education

Modarresi, Fereshteh    Edit
Currently pursuing a PhD. in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa
Email:fmoda033 at uottawa dot ca
Education:B.Sc in Electrical Engineering
Affiliation:University of Ottawa
Interests:Syntax and semantics interface, psycholinguistics

Modarresi Ghavami, Golnaz    Edit
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Texas Austin
Affiliation:Allameh Tabataba’i University
Interests:Phonetics, phonology, morphology, languages of the gypsies of Iran.

Mohaghegh, Mahsa    Edit
Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Computer Engineering, Massey University in New Zealand
Email:m dot mohaghegh at massey dot ac dot nz
Home page:http://iims.massey.a...mohaghegh/index.html
Education:M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology ; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Azad University of Tehran
Affiliation:Massey University
Interests:Machine Translation, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Architecture of NLP systems

Mohammad, Jan    Edit
Jan Mohammad is a teacher at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.
Email:jan dot mohammad at us dot army dot mil
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona
Affiliation:DLI
Interests:Syntax, teaching, Dari and Pashto.

Mohit, Behrang    Edit
Email:behrang at cs dot pitt dot edu
Home page:http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~behrang
Education:PhD Candidate in Intelligent Systems Program
Affiliation:University of Pittsburgh
Interests:Machine Translation, Multilingual Processing, Semantics

Mohseni, Mahdi    Edit
Email:mohseni at comp dot iust dot ac dot ir
Education:M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology
Affiliation:Iran University of Science and Technology
Interests:Statistical Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation

Momtazi, Saeedeh    Edit
Saeedeh Momtazi is currently in the PhD program for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at University of Saarland, Germany
Email:smomtazi at lsv dot uni-saarland dot de
Home page:http://www.lsv.uni-s...sonalPages/smomtazi/
Education:MSc Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Sharif University of Technology,
BSc Degree in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology
Affiliation:University of Saarland
Interests:Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language Modeling, Information Retrieval

Mousavi, Neda    Edit
Email:nda_msv at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD Student in Linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabai University
Interests:Phonetics, Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis.

Müller, Stefan    Edit
Stefan Müller is Professor for German and General Linguistics at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He works on theoretical grammars for various languages (German, Persian, Chinese, Maltese) and their machine processable implementation in the framework of HPSG.
Email:Stefan dot Mueller at fu-berlin dot de
Home page:http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/
Education:Habilitation in Computational Linguistics Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken
Affiliation:Freie Universität Berlin
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Naghzguy Kohan, Mehrdad    Edit
Dr. Kohan is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Bu Ali Sina in Hamadan, Iran.
Email:mehrdad at basu dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://profs.basu.ac...an/index.php?L=en&pc
Education:PhD, Tehran University
Affiliation:University of Bu Ali Sina
Interests:Dialectology, historical linguistics

Najafi, Azade    Edit
Email:najafi dot az at gmail dot com
Education:PHD in General Linguistics, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad; BA in English Translation, Tarbiat Moalem, Tehran
Interests:Psycholinguistics, Syntax
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Oroumchian, Farhad    Edit
Dr. Farhad Oroumchian is an Associate Professor in the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. He is also a Professor in the Engineering Department of Tehran University. He currently conducts research on models of information retrieval for Persian, using various methods such as vector space, probabilistic and fuzzy methods.
Email:foroumchian at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD in Computer Science, Syracuse University
Affiliation:University of Wollongong in Dubai
Interests:Multilingual information retrieval, question answering, artificial intelligence, NLP and databases.
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Pahlavannejad, Mohammad Reza    Edit
Dr. Pahlavannejad is an Assistant professor of linguistics
Email:rezapahlavan5 at yahoo dot com
Education:Ph.D in Linguistics
Affiliation:Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Interests:Functionalism, Syntax, Semantics

Pantcheva, Marina    Edit
PhD student at CASTL, Tromso, Norway.
Email:marina dot pantcheva at hum dot uit dot no
Home page:http://www.hum.uit.no/a/pantcheva/
Education:MA in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Sofia
Affiliation:CASTL, University of Tromso
Interests:Syntax of spatial expressions (cross-linguistically). Complex Predicates in Persian.

Parsafar, Parviz    Edit
پرویز پارسافر
professor of ESL and Linguistics at Yuba Community College, Marysville, California.
Email:pparsafa at yccd dot edu
Education:Ph.D. in Linguistics, Yale University (1996)
Affiliation:Yuba Community College
Interests:Syntax, Morphology, cognitive Linguistics, Space Grammar, Applied Linguistics, TESL, Historical Linguistics, Lexical Semantics

Parvaz, Dan    Edit
دانيال علی پروز
Email:dparvaz at mitre dot org
Home page:http://www.mitre.org
Education:MA Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Affiliation:The MITRE Corporation
Interests:Computational Linguistics -- Machine Translation, Entity Extraction, Corpus Linguistics, Encoding of Language, POS Tagging, Stemming, Morphological Analysis, Lexicography
Theoretical Linguistics - Non-Chomskian models of syntax: Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar; Signed Languages, Gestural Systems.

Paul, Daniel    Edit
Email:daniel dot paul AT postgrad dot manchester dot ac dot uk
Home page:http://www.llc.manch...tudents/daniel_paul/
Affiliation:University of Manchester
Interests:I have a particular interest in Iranian languages, and have previously been involved in sociolinguistic survey of smaller languages in Tajikistan (in collaboration with the State National University of Tajikistan and the Tajik government) and in Afghanistan (with the support of the government of Afghanistan).

Pendar, Nick    Edit
Dr. Pendar is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Iowa State University
Email:pendar at iastate dot edu
Home page:http://pendar.public.iastate.edu/
Education:PhD, University of Toronto (2005)
Affiliation:Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Interests:Computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing, intelligent computer-assisted language learning systems

Perry, John R.    Edit
Dr. Perry is Professor Emeritus of Persian at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Chicago.
Email:j-perry at uchicago dot edu
Home page:http://humanities.uc...ges/perry/index.html
Education:Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1970.
Affiliation:University of Chicago
Interests:Persian Linguistics and Language History, Cultural History of Iran and the Middle East

Pirhayati, Ali    Edit
Email:Pirhayatia at yahoo dot com
Education:MA Student of General Linguistics; BA in English Translation, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabai University
Interests:Discourse Analysis, Syntax, Phonology, Philosophy of Language
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Rajaei, Samsamoddin    Edit
Mr. Rajaei is a Masters student in the Computer Science department at the University of Munich in Germany. He is currently working on Persian, German and English languages.
Affiliation:University of Munich
Interests:Computational linguistics, Persian character sets adn encodings, lexicography.

Rasekh Mahaand, Mohammad    Edit
Mr. Rasekh is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamadan, Iran.
Email:rasekh at basu dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://profs.basu.ac.ir/rasekhmahand/
Education:Ph D of Linguistics, Allame Tabataba'i University
Affiliation:Bu-Ali Sina University
Interests:syntax, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics

Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan    Edit
Associate Professor, Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages (University of Tehran); Visiting Professor, Research Institute for World Languages (Osaka University, Japan)
Email:hrezai at osaka-gaidai dot ac dot jp
Home page:http://literature.ut...20baghbidi/index.htm
Education:PhD in Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, 1996
Affiliation:University of Tehran/Osaka University
Interests:Old Iranian Languages, Middle Iranian Languages, Iranian Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Sanskrit

Rezakhani, Khodadad    Edit
Mr. Rezakhani is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. He specializes on Late Antique Near Eastern History and his dissertation is on Sasanian economy. He is the author of Iranologie website.
Email:khodadad at ucla dot edu
Home page:http://www.iranologie.com/CV.html
Education:C. Phil. in History from UCLA, MSc in Global History from the London School of Economics
Affiliation:University of California Los Angeles
Interests:History of Near East, Iranian languages (Old and Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, Avestan), comparative IE (Old Norse, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin).

Riehemann, Susanne    Edit
Dr. Riehemann is currently a Research Linguist at SRI International's AI Center. She has previously worked on Pashto-English speech-to-speech translation.
Email:riehemann at ai dot sri dot com
Home page:http://www.ai.sri.com/people/riehemann/
Education:PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University (2001)
Affiliation:SRI International
Interests:Computational Linguistics, HPSG, Morphology, and Corpus Linguistics; Pashto.

Roberts, Taylor    Edit
Email:troberts at yorku dot ca
Home page:http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, MIT
Affiliation:York University
Interests:Language Documentation, Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Syntax, Pashto.

Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie    Edit
research on the semantics and folklore of Pamiri languages
Email:j dot rouhier at uky dot edu
Home page:www.uky.edu/~jrouhie
Education:University of Virginia
Affiliation:U. of Kentucky
Interests:PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures (linguistics and folklore), 1993

Rouhizadeh, Masoud    Edit
مسعود روحی زاده
Email:masoud at cslu dot ogi dot edu
Education:PhD student، Center for Spoken Language Understanding Division of Biomedical Computer Science Oregon Health and Science University
Affiliation:Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
Interests:Computational Semantics, Syntax, Lexicon, Psycholinguistics
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Sadaghian, Shirin    Edit
Email:shirin_6640 at yahoo dot com
Education:Studying MA in TEFL
Affiliation:Shahid Beheshti university
Interests:Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics

Sadat-Tehrani, Nima    Edit
Email:nisate at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sadatteh/
Education:Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Manitoba, 2008
Affiliation:University of Manitoba
Interests:Persian; Intonational phonology

Sadeghi, Ali Ashraf    Edit
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Paris
Affiliation:Persian Academy of Letters (Farhangestan)
Interests:Historical linguistics, Iranian languages

Saeid, Iranmanesh    Edit
سعید ایران منش
I am working on persian grammar induction using genetic algorithm.
Email:iranmanesh dot s at gmail dot com
Home page:http://iranmanesh.s.googlepages.com
Education:Master of Artificial Intelligence
Affiliation:Department of computer engineering, Islamic azad university of Qazvin, IRAN
Interests:Natural language processing, Expert systems, Artificial neural networks, Evolutionary computing, Image processing

Safaie Qalati, Mehdi    Edit
Email:amensad at gmail dot com
Education:Tarbiat Modares University
Affiliation:PhD Student, Linguistics
Interests:Acoustic Phonetics, Usage based cognitive phonology

Safari, Ali    Edit
Email:alisafari228 at gmail dot com
Education:PhD student of General Linguistics, University of Tehran; MA in General Linguistics; BA in TEFL
Affiliation:Teacher Training Center of Qom
Interests:Minimalist Program, Persian Syntax, Iranian languages, Second Language Acquisition

Samadi, Habibeh    Edit
Dr. Samadi is an Assistant Professor at the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in Iran.
Email:habibehsamadi at yahoo dot co dot uk
Education:Ph.D in Clincal Linguistics and Persian Language Development from Sheffield University, United Kingdom
Affiliation:Kerman University of Medical Sciences
Interests:Clinical linguistics

Samiian, Vida    Edit
Dr. Samiian is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Cal State, Fresno.
Email:vidas at csufresno dot edu
Education:PhD in Linguistics, UCLA (1983)
Affiliation:California State University, Fresno
Interests:Persian syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, Indo-Iranian languages

Samvelian, Pollet    Edit
Dr. Samvelian is an Assistant Professor in general linguistics at Université de Paris III, La Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Email:pollet dot samvelian at univ-paris3 dot fr
Home page:http://www.cavi.univ.../samvelian/index.htm
Education:PhD in French Linguistics, Paris VII-Denis Diderot
Affiliation:Paris University
Interests:Syntax, lexicon-syntax interface, argument structure, linguistic typology; Persian, Kurdish, Armenian.

Saqari, Zahra    Edit
Email:z dot saghari at gmail dot com
Education:BA student in general linguistics
Affiliation:Azad University at Tehran
Interests:Syntax

Sedighi, Anousha    Edit
Dr. Anoudha Sedighi is an Assistant Professor of Persian at Portland State University.
Email:sedighi at pdx dot edu
Home page:http://www.fll.pdx.e...ultybios/sedighi.htm
Education:Ph.D. in Persian Linguistics at U of Ottawa, M.A. in Linguistics, B.A. English Translation
Affiliation:Portland State University
Interests:Syntax, Morphology, Pedagogy, Heritage Persian

Shabani Jadidi, Pouneh    Edit
Dr. Shabani Jadidi is currently a Faculty Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University.
Email:pouneh dot shabani-jadidi at mcgill dot ca
Home page:http://www.mcgill.ca...uneh-shabani-jadidi/
Education:Ph.D. Candidate of Linguistics, University of Ottawa (2004-present); Ph.D., Education (TEFL), Azad University, Science and Research Campus, Tehran (2004)
Affiliation:McGill University
Interests:Persian Language and Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics

Shahabi, Amir Shahab    Edit
Dr. Shahabi is an Assistant professor of Computer Software Department at Azad University.
Email:shahabi at azad dot ac dot ir
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch
Interests:Word Sense Disambiguation in Natural Language Processing; Statistical Natural Language Understanding; Text Segmentation; Lemmatization

Shamsfard, Mehrnoush    Edit
Dr. Shamsfard is an Assistant Professor at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran and is currently the Head of Natural language Processing Research Laboratory.
Email:m-shams at sbu dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://labs.sbu.ac.i...view&id=116&Itemid=1
Education:PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran (2003)
Affiliation:Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Interests:Automatic thematic role extraction, ontology, Persian NLP

Sharifian, Farzad    Edit
Associate Professor Farzad Sharifian is the Director of Language and Society at Monash University. He is also the Head of the Department of English as an International Language at Monash.
Email:farzad dot sharifian at arts dot monash dot edu dot au
Home page:http://sites.google....ssorfarzadsharifian/
Education:PhD, Applied Linguistics, Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Affiliation:School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Interests:Persian linguistics, Pragmatics of Persian, Language and politics, Language and culture, Learning English as a Second Language.

Shayan, Shakila    Edit
Post Doctoral Fellow at MPI. Working on Categories and Concepts across Language and Cognition project
Email:shakila dot shayan at mpi dot nl
Home page:http://www.mpi.nl/Members/ShakilaShayan
Education:Ph.D. Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Indiana University, US.
Affiliation:Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Interests:Language Acquisition, Language and Cognition, Cognitive and Psycho Linguistics, Cognitive modeling of language acquisition

Shirtz, Shahar    Edit
I'm a Linguistics masters student at the Hebrew University, working mainly on Middle Persian.
Email:shaharzilla at gmail dot com
Affiliation:Hebrew University
Interests:Typological linguistics; grammatical categories in Iranian Languages (esp. Middle Iranian languages); Middle Iranian languages; Argument structure and categories; Corpus linguistics

sho'leh, mahnaz    Edit
Ms. Mahnaz is currently an MA student (TEFL) at Sheikh Bahaee University, Baharestan, Isfahan
Email:collected20 at yahoo dot com
Education:BA english literature, MA TEFL (Sheikh Bahaee University)
Affiliation:sheikh bahaee university
Interests:psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics

Siyyari, Masood    Edit
Email:masoodsiyyari at yahoo dot com
Education:Ph.D candidate in TEFL
Affiliation:Allame Tabatabaee University, studying Ph.D, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Campus, Faculty Member

Skjaervo, P. Oktor    Edit
Email:skjaervo at fas dot harvard dot edu
Home page:http://www.fas.harva...faculty/skjaervo.htm
Affiliation:Harvard University
Interests:Old Iranian studies

Sohrabie, Akbar    Edit
Email:akbar_sohrabie at yahoo dot com
Home page:http://sites.google..../site/sohrabieakbar/
Education:graduate student of linguistics
Affiliation:Azad University at Khorasgan, Iran
Interests:syntax, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics

Sojoodi, Farzan    Edit
فرزان سجودی
I am now working on semiotics of writing. A paper of this research is published in my last book: Semiotics: Theory and |Practice
Email:fsojoodi at yahoo dot com
Home page:www.farzansojoodi.com
Education:Ph.D. in linguistics from Allame Tabatabaei University
Affiliation:Tehran University of Arts
Interests:Smiotics, Discourse Analysis, Literature

Soltani, Mahmood (Iman)    Edit
Email:m dot soltany at ece dot ut dot ac dot ir
Education:M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, IAUM
Affiliation:University of Tehran
Interests:Natural Language Processing(NLP), Data Mining, Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Stilo, Donald    Edit
Dr. Stilo is a scientist in the Northwest Iranian Language Project in the Linguistics department at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig.
Email:stilo at eva dot mpg dot de
Home page:http://email.eva.mpg.de/~stilo/
Education:PhD in Lingusitics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1971)
Affiliation:Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Interests:Iranian languages, typological studies.

Stump, Gregory    Edit
Email:gstump at uky dot edu
Home page:http://www.as.uky.ed...p/Pages/default.aspx
Education:PhD, Linguistics, Ohio State University, 1981
Affiliation:University of Kentucky
Interests:research on the inflectional systems of the Pamir languages
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Tabesh, Mohammad Hosein    Edit
Email:mhtabesh at yahoo dot com
Education:Master of Arts in TEFL, Khorasgan University 1995
Affiliation:Islamic Azad University Khomeini Shahr Branch
Interests:Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Testing, Language and Politics, Persian Literature, Bilingualism

Tabibzadeh, Omid    Edit
Email:o dot tabibzadeh at basu dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://profs.basu.ac.ir/tabibzadeh
Education:PhD, Tehran University, LMU Muenchen
Affiliation:Bu Ali Sina University
Interests:Phonology, Metrics, Dependency Grammar

Taghvaipour, Mehran Anushirvan    Edit
Dr. Taghvaipour is currently Lecturer in English Syntax at the University of Hertfordshire, UK
Email:m dot taghvaipour at herts dot ac dot uk
Education:PhD in computational linguistics, Essex University, UK
Affiliation:University of Hertfordshire
Interests:Syntax, Unbounded Dependencies, Relative Clauses

Taheri, Mortaza    Edit
Email:ncmit1957 at yahoo dot com
Education:MA student of general linguistics
Affiliation:Allameh Tabatabaei
Interests:Phonetics, phonology, Intonational Phonology, Information Structure

Taheri, OmidReza    Edit
Email:omidr_taheri at yahoo dot com
Education:Research Scholar in Cognitive Linguistic
Affiliation:University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense
Interests:M.sc Computer Science & Philosophy area of interests: Computational Linguistic, Artificial Intelligence,Philosophy of Mind and Language,Cybernetics

Taleghani, Azita    Edit
Dr. Taleghani teaches Persian language at Toronto University.
Email:azita dot taleghani at utoronto dot ca
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona
Affiliation:University of Toronto
Interests:Persian, morphosyntax

Toosarvandani, Maziar    Edit
Mr. Toosarvandani is a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. His main interests lie in the areas of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, in particular the study of ellipsis and focus.
Home page:http://linguistics.b...rkeley.edu/~maziart/
Education:B.S., University of Virginia (2003), M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2006)
Affiliation:University of California, Berkeley
Interests:syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Iranian (Persian, Dari), Numic (Northern Paiute), Germanic (English, Danish)
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Vaezi, Hengameh    Edit
Email:hengamehvaezi at yahoo dot com
Education:PhD Candidate in Linguistics
Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabai , Iran
Interests:Syntax, Minimalist program, wh-movement, compound verbs, complex predicates, cognitive linguistics

Vahedi Langrudi, Mohammad-Mehdi    Edit
Dr. Vahedi is a Professor of Linguistics at Modarres University in Tehran.
Home page:http://www.modares.ac.ir/hum/Vahedi_m/
Education:PhD in Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Affiliation:Tarbiat Modares University
Interests:Syntax, Morpho-syntax, Argument Structure, Lexical Semantics.
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Windfuhr, Gernot    Edit
Dr. Windfuhr is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan's Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Email:windfuhr at umich dot edu
Home page:http://www.umich.edu...faculty/windfuhr.htm
Education:PhD in Iranian Studies and Islamic Studies, Hamburg University
Affiliation:University of Michigan
Interests:ersian language, linguistics, literature, culture; Iranian linguistics and dialectology; Near Eastern linguistics; Pre-Islamic Iranian languages and religions, Zoroastrianism.
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Yarshater, Ehsan    Edit
احسان يارشاطر
Dr. Yarshater is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He is general editor for the Encyclopedia Iranica, a collection of scholarly articles on Iranian studies.
Home page:http://www.perlit.sa...rsite.net/yarshater/
Education:PhDs from Tehran University and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London (1969)
Affiliation:Columbia University
Interests:Iranian studies, dialectology

Youhanee, Manijeh    Edit
Dr. Youhanaee is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Isfahan University in Iran.
Email:youhanaee at isfahan dot org dot ir;  youhanaee  AT  fgn dot ui dot ac dot ir
Home page:http://fgn.ui.ac.ir/...tmls/e_youhanaee.htm
Education:PhD in Language and Linguistics, Essex University
Affiliation:Isfahan University
Interests:Syntactic theory (Principles and Parameters), second language acquisition of syntax.