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Unpublished Manuscript
2012
Persian language teaching
Shift Happens: Language Shift and Maintenance in the Persian Diaspora
Karine Megerdoomian
Maintenance of immigrant languages has always been a fundamental challenge among Diaspora communities. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Presentation
2012
Persian language teaching
Social Media for Language Teaching
Karine Megerdoomian
No abstract available. Learn what the authors found and why it matters.
Unpublished Manuscript
2012
Persian language teaching
Persian Diglossia and its Impact in the Classroom
Karine Megerdoomian
No abstract available. Learn what the authors found and why it matters.
Presentation
2012
Social media analytics
Identification of subculture groups and its reflection on topic propagation in the Blogosphere
Karine Megerdoomian and James Davidson
Our investigation of language use and link structures in the Persian blogosphere shows that homophily in this network can develop along gender and ethnic lines. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Journal Article
2012
Complex predicates
The Status of the Nominal in Persian Complex Predicates
Karine Megerdoomian
The nature of preverbal nominals and their relation to the verb have been the focus of much debate in languages with a productive complex predication process. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Journal Article
2011
Armenian linguistics
Second Position Clitics in the vP Phase: The Case of the Armenian Auxiliary
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Karine Megerdoomian
Special clitics appear in a position that is different from the one favored by their associated full forms (Zwicky 1977). Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Presentation
2011
Social media analytics, Persian NLP
Computing linguistic creativity in the Persian blogosphere
Karine Megerdoomian
Linguistic creativity - such as coinage of new words, creation of novel metaphors, play with words, and new usages of non-standard spelling - is an important property of human language. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Proceedings Article
2011
Social media analytics, Persian NLP
Automatic Topic Detection in Persian Blogs
Karine Megerdoomian and Ali Hadjarian
The goal of this squib is to account for the puzzling positional distribution of the Armenian auxiliary clitic in the focus-neutral context. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Technical Report
2011
Social media analytics
Issues in Dari Transcription
Karine Megerdoomian
Orthographic transcription is used in representing spoken data and translations in the target language when creating parallel corpora. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Presentation
2011
General AI
Deciphering Middle Eastern Names
Karine Megerdoomian
No abstract available. Learn what the authors found and why it matters.
Technical Report
2011
General AI
The Format of Middle Eastern Names in Official Documents
Karine Megerdoomian
This report discusses the ways in which Arabic, Afghan, and Iranian names are written in official documents. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.
Presentation
2011
Armenian linguistics, Syntax-semantics
Focus and the Auxiliary in Eastern Armenian
Karine Megerdoomian
The auxiliary verb in Eastern Armenian is a clitic that carries tense and agreement and is used to form all the indicative forms of the verb with the exception of the aorist tense. Discover what this means for Persian and multilingual, low‑resource NLP.