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Karine Megerdoomian
Researcher at Mitre Corporation
Publications - 26
Citations - 621
Karine Megerdoomian is an academic researcher from Mitre Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Machine translation & Persian. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 525 citations. Previous affiliations of Karine Megerdoomian include University of California, San Diego & University of Southern California.
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Human language reveals a universal positivity bias
Peter Sheridan Dodds,Eric M. Clark,Suma Desu,Morgan R. Frank,Andrew J. Reagan,Jake Ryland Williams,Lewis Mitchell,Kameron Decker Harris,Isabel M. Kloumann,James P. Bagrow,Karine Megerdoomian,Matthew T. McMahon,Brian F. Tivnan,Brian F. Tivnan,Christopher M. Danforth +14 more
TL;DR: Using human evaluation of 100,000 words spread across 24 corpora in 10 languages diverse in origin and culture, evidence of a deep imprint of human sociality in language is presented, observing that the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias.
Persian-English Machine Translation: An Overview of the Shiraz Project
TL;DR: The Shiraz project MT prototype for a Persian to English machine translation system using typed feature structures and unification is described, capable of representing heterogeneous types of hypotheses in an integrated way.
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Event Structure and Complex Predicates in Persian
TL;DR: In this paper, les proprietes syntaxiques and semantiques des verbes composes en persan to meettre a jour les contributions individuelles des composants de la construction verbale.
Persian Computational Morphology: A Unification-Based Approach
TL;DR: The report describes the current version of the morphological analyzer used in the Shiraz project and discusses any morphological elements that have not been included in this version, mostly due to the colloquial usage of these morphemes.
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The Status of the Nominal in Persian Complex Predicates
TL;DR: This paper argued that the two categories of preverbal nouns cannot receive the same analysis since they display distinct syntactic and semantic behavior: the preverbal nominals, unlike the bare object nouns, cannot be questioned, are modified differently, have different interpretations, give rise to distinct case-assignment contexts, and can co-occur with a non-specific object.