Examines the presentation of Arabic, Afghan, and Iranian personal names in official documents. Uses publicly available identification and passport examples to extend earlier descriptions of naming conventions and document formats.

Investigates how focus affects the placement of the Eastern Armenian auxiliary. Proposes a distinction between its position within the verb phrase in neutral sentences and higher positions associated with focus, with comparisons to neighboring languages.

Examines challenges in developing a Persian part-of-speech tagger, including tagset design, character encoding, word boundaries, morphological dependencies, and multiword expressions. Discusses a hybrid approach combining linguistic rules with statistical methods.

Provides Pashto transcription guidelines for language data used in the GALE and TRANSTAC programs, supporting machine translation and tactical speech translation work.

Explores how a finite-state Persian morphological analyzer can be extended to informal blog language. Addresses conjugation, morphological dependencies, spacing, and phonological alternations, alongside additional challenges introduced by online writing practices.

Surveys computational tools for Persian language teaching and learning, including classroom activities, research, and exercises. Covers tools available at the time of the presentation and projects then under development.

Describes a large Persian lexicon developed in 2010 through the automatic identification and extraction of neologisms and vocabulary from Persian blogs. The resource and accompanying documentation have not been publicly released.

Proposes an inductive approach to Persian heritage language instruction that draws on learners' existing knowledge to uncover linguistic patterns. Targets difficulties with formal registers and literacy through explicit, analytical activities grounded in linguistic research.

Investigates the placement of the Eastern Armenian auxiliary and its interaction with focus. Argues that second-position clisis operates within the verbal domain, drawing on parallels between verbal and clausal phases and their relationship to prosody.

Reviews sentiment lexicons available as of 2010.

Investigates the extraction and classification of newly coined and borrowed words in Persian blogs. Comparisons across five topic domains show variation in neologism types and suggest a role for domain-specific processing.

Explores strategies for developing language technologies where training data are scarce, with applications to Persian and Armenian. Combines linguistic knowledge with resources from related languages to support rapid development of initial tools.