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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Peyman NojoumianAssistant Professor (Teaching) of PersianContact Information E-mail: nojoumia@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2310 Office: THH 449 LINKS Persian @ USC |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Computational Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 7/2011
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M.S. Speech and Language Technology, KULeuven, 2002
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M.A. Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language, Allameh Tabatabai, 1997
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Assistant Professor of Persian, University of Southern California, 08/2011-
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Associate Director, Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW), 2011-
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Persian Lecturer & Coordinator, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2011
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Persian Lecturer, University of Maryland, 2006-2008
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| My research interest covers two broader areas of applied and computational linguistics. In the former, it focuses on the development of instructional materials for the Persian language and culture. I employ a communicative task-based language teaching approach in preparing instructional materials and utilize web-based e-learning tools for its implementation. In the latter, I study the processing of the Persian language orthography especially morphological analysis and automatic diacritization (inserting the three absent short vowels in the Persian orthography). Under my PhD thesis, I developed an automatic diacritizer for the Persian orthography using Xerox Finite State Transducer (XFST) technology. This tool is able to diacritize and tag a Persian text corpus by a high accuracy rate. I am constantly updating its lexicon to cover more proper nouns. This tool can also be used to develop e-learning modules such as reading and spelling activities for Persian language learners. I am also interested in developing corpora for both language processing and second language acquisition research. I have developed a tagged and fully diacritized text corpus for the Persian which contains one million words. | |
Research Keywords |
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| Persian, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Teaching Persian, Task-based Language Teaching, heritage and non-heritage language learning | |
Research Specialties |
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| Persian Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Teaching Persian | |
Funded Research |
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Contracts and Grants Awarded |
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Business Persian for Intermediate Learners (CIBER), Peyman Nojoumian, $2,500,
Spring
2011
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CSAMES on-line Persian (CSAMES), Peyman Nojoumian, $5,000,
Fall
2010
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Association of Professors & Scholars of Iranian Heritage, Affiliate Member,http://www.apsih.org/
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Instructional Material Development based on Principles of TBLT", Keynote Lecture, Ghazvin International University, Invited, 2011-
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"Morphological Priming of Multi-morphemic Persian Words in Mental Lexicon", Workshop on Computer and Persian Language, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Tehran University, Invited, 2006-
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"Business Language Courseware Development based on TBLT Principles, a Hands-on Example", The CIBER Business Language Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Chapel Hill, NC, USC CIBER, Invited,
Spring
2012
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"Modeling Persian Language Syntax and Morphology in LingBench IDE", The 4th European Speech and Language Technology Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Catalonia Polytechnic University, Invited,
Spring
2003
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Other Presentations |
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"The Evolution of the Persian Language", Iranian Cultural Talk, Persian Academic & Cultural Student Association (PACSA) , USC - TTC 450,
Spring
2012
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Publications |
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Conference Proceeding |
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Nojoumian, P., Shabani Jadidi, P., Tangestanifar, A.
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Morphological Priming of Multi-morphemic Persian Words in Mental Lexicon. pp. 28-38. Tehran University Press. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computer and Persian Language.
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Research Report |
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Nojoumian, P. Processing Phonological and Semantic Ambiguity, Disambiguation of Heterophonic & Homophonic Homographs in Persian Using Semantic Priming. Linguistics Department.
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Honors and Awards |
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Houtan Foundation Award, 2001-2002
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Service to the Profession |
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Professional Memberships |
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ACTFL, 2011-2012
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