<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 9, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Does anyone have pointers to resources for Persian (also known as Farsi) which would be relevant for Machine Translation, eg, dictionaries, gazetteers, morphological descriptions or systems, corpora.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I am aware of the project at New Mexico State Uni, John Dehdari’s work at Brigham Young Uni, and LDC’s holdings (all speech-oriented)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>There is a student in Teheran who gave a presentation of his work on a Farsi corpus at JSSECL 2006 in Zadar. His corpus was still small, but well structured and tagged, using TEI annotation. See at <A href="http://eng.unizd.hr/~ws2006/">http://eng.unizd.hr/~ws2006/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>best wishes</DIV><DIV>Damir</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Damir Cavar</DIV><DIV><A href="http://eng.unizd.hr/~dcavar/">http://eng.unizd.hr/~dcavar/</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>