RE: Farsi Stemming Algorithm

2004-04-29 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Thanks a lot, Jon, for your reply. > The only one that I'm aware of is found here [1]. But it > seems hard to get any other information about this stemmer. Yes, it definitely seems so. The only Farsi stemmer I've been aware of myself is http://www.isri.unlv.edu/publications/isripub/Taghva2003-0

FarsiWeb and its mission (was RE: IranL10nInfo)

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:40, Omid K. Rad wrote: > I was rather disappointed when I was told that FarsiWeb is > not interested in Microsoft .NET technology at all. Even though I value > all the great achievements that FarsiWeb has found, I personally believe > that resolving Persian computing issues

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 20:05, C Bobroff wrote: > > About your suggestion, however, we (i.e. our team) have no idea about > > Afghan and Tajik languages. > It's all one language, different conventions. For example, Tajiki is written in the Cyrillic alphabet instead of Arabic. ;) roozbeh _

BBC Persian on Internet and the Persian Language

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
There is a debate story by BBC Persian on the Internet and the Persian Langauge here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/interactivity/debate/story/2004/04/040428_mf_bt_weblanguage.shtml roozbeh ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lis

Re: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:06, C Bobroff wrote: > OK, but kindly don't involve Roozbeh in any flamefests until AFTER he's > done with the fonts. Not much has happened with the fonts since last year (1382), and the latest version is 0.4. BTW, we need volunteers for tracking bugs in the fonts. As fo

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 11, Issue 15

2004-04-29 Thread Masoud Sharbiani
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:00:31AM -0700, C Bobroff wrote: > The problem here is that you're receiving the Daily Digest form of the > list so you're mixing and matching two different topics. Possibly > three with the Outlook question that also crept in. Not only that, but also you are screwing my

Abbreviations et al.

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Nice examples of abbreviations/shorthands/whatever: * The first page of Mosahab Persian Encyclopedia (first published in 1345/1966), about the abbreviations used in the encyclopedia, showing different methods of Persian abbreviation (127 KiB): http://www.farsiweb.info/misc/mosahab-abbr.pn

Re: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > Not much has happened with the fonts since last year (1382), and the > latest version is 0.4. BTW, we need volunteers for tracking bugs in the > fonts. Sorry to hear that. Can you release the latest if there have been any improvements? Maybe I coul

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 11, Issue 15

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Masoud Sharbiani wrote: > Not only that, but also you are screwing my mailer's threaded mail reading. > Please don't do that. I'm sure it was merely a subconscious attempt to seek out the perfect abbreviation for Dushanbe, *Monday* Bazaar and capital of Tajikistan :) -Conni

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > For example, Tajiki is written in the Cyrillic alphabet instead of > Arabic. ;) Yeah, well, since I found out you can't actually type it unless you buy those stand-alone programs (without the source code!), I'm going to cite the Tajik [1] example ev

Re: BBC Persian on Internet and the Persian Language

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/interactivity/debate/story/2004/04/040428_mf_bt_weblanguage.shtml Can you give an example of "haa-ye havvaz instead of kasra." I can't think how that situation could come up although I'm sure it's obvious. -Connie

RE: Farsi Stemming Algorithm

2004-04-29 Thread Jon D.
--- Ehsan Akhgari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded this package, and looked into it. It > seem to be useful for my > job. However, this is the first time I'm hearing of > PC-Kimmo, so I was kind > of lost when trying to figure out the whole thing. > I was wonderring if you > can provid

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread Omid K. Rad
Dear Behdad, Roozbeh, Connie, Thanks for your replies and explaining me. First of all, Iâm sorry if you found my last post antagonistic in anyway. Iâm not expecting FarsiWeb anything more than what they are doing (I donât see myself in that stance either). All I wanted to say is donât avoid so

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread Omid K. Rad
<> Hello every body, especially my friends at FarsiWeb, I'm trying to point out some things here (even though you might already know) about .NET and our project. For your information: The .NET Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and the C# programming language were submitted to ECMA and ISO/I

Re: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-04-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
The main problem with the fonts right now are: * The lack line height data. * The size does not match of the MS fonts. (so not to the Latin fonts). * A few of fonts have bitmaps added. Those bitmaps should be removed. * There's a known problem on LCDs, but that's another story perhaps.

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, C Bobroff wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > For example, Tajiki is written in the Cyrillic alphabet instead of > > Arabic. ;) > > [1] The English word is Tajik (and sometimes Tadzhik) but not Tajiki. (I > also only found this out recently!) I guess

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Perhaps we should add Tajik vs. Tajiki to the list of wars ;). Good idea! Merriam-Webster even has "Irani" as an English word in case you need more suggestions for your list. I'm sticking with the Oxford English Dictionary... -Connie ___

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread Linguasoft
Dear Connie (et al), It's very easy to type Tajik using a "Phonetic" (i.e., mnemonic) Cyrillic keyboard. I wrote a Keyman keyboard driver for Kazakh that should include all those Cyrillic fancy characters needed for Tajik. Want to try it? Best regards, Peter E. Hauer Linguasoft

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-04-29 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > It's very easy to type Tajik using a "Phonetic" (i.e., mnemonic) Cyrillic > keyboard. With which font though? I could only find hacked fonts. -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://l