Presents a NetLogo simulation exploring how network structure, link direction, and the centrality of initial information holders affect information diffusion. Compares randomly generated and preferential attachment networks to investigate differences in the speed and reach of information spread.

Reviews machine translation methods available at the time, including knowledge-based and statistical approaches, alongside emerging neural network methods. Not publicly released.

Examines Persian language shift and maintenance in diaspora communities. Connects heritage speakers' linguistic profiles to targeted instruction and discusses how diglossia, family attitudes, community support, identity, and access to materials shape language maintenance.

Explores Persian social media as a source of authentic language and cultural material for classroom instruction. Discusses conversational writing, neologisms, diglossia, and political rhetoric, alongside tools for finding and analyzing online content.

Examines differences between conversational and literary Persian and their implications for language teaching. Argues for a curriculum that prioritizes everyday communication while progressively introducing literary forms and helping learners understand when each variety is appropriate.

Combines linguistic and network analysis to identify subcultures in the Persian blogosphere. Examines how gender, ethnicity, and political ideology shape community ties and the propagation of topics across groups.

Distinguishes preverbal nominals from bare direct objects in Persian using evidence from interpretation, modification, questioning, case, and co-occurrence. Proposes different structural positions and relationships to the verb for these two types of nominal expression.

Investigates the unusual placement of the Eastern Armenian auxiliary, which appears neither consistently second in the clause nor adjacent to the verb. Examines the implications of this pattern for accounts of second-position clitics.

Examines neologisms, metaphors, wordplay, and nonstandard spelling in Persian blogs and the challenges they pose for NLP. Discusses methods for recognizing linguistic creativity automatically, with comparisons to blogging practices in other languages.

Presents a system for detecting topics in Persian blogs by combining text analytics and social network analysis. Describes the development and evaluation of a morphological analyzer, a lexicon of loanwords and neologisms, and a topic classifier tailored to blog language.

Examines difficulties in developing consistent Dari transcription guidelines for speech translation corpora. Discusses the effects of Persian orthography, uncertain word boundaries, diglossia, dialect variation, and limited standardization on transcription quality.

Surveys Arabic, Afghan, and Iranian personal naming conventions, including compound names, patronymics, honorifics, and forms of address. Explains how linguistic structure, regional variation, and English transcription complicate the interpretation and matching of names.