Education

• M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 
• M.A. in General Linguistics - University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 
• BA in English Literature - Allameh Tabataba'ee University, Tehran, Iran
• Diploma in Natural Science - Motahhari High School, Tehran, Iran

  
Academic works

• MA Dissertation titled "Presentation of Syntactic Information under Lexical Entries"
  University of Tehran (September 1999)
• M.Sc. Dissertation titled "An Instrumental Study of Prosodic Features and Intonation in Modern Farsi (Persian)" University of Edinburgh (September 2003) (PDF Version)

Interests

• I am interested in natural language processing (NLP) and in artificial intelligence (especially in parsing Farsi sentences, and in developing Farsi data retrieval systems & information extraction applications). Currently I am working on algorithms for a search engine which particularly searches through Farsi strings. those interested in such issues can visit FLP (my special page on Farsi Language Processing issues).

My Sites

• Timasearch - TimaSearch is a specialized translation and search service dedicated mainly to Farsi language. Currently it covers translation and interpretation of various texts in Farsi (Persian), English and French. The site has also a Farsi Translation Forum in which the individuals who are interested in Translation issues in Farsi language can post their questions, opinions, view points, etc. 

Contact me

• You can email me at behzad@tima.ca
• Visit my Ex-Homepage in Edinburgh University