Mahmood Bijankhan ( fa, محمود بیجنخان; born 1958 in
Abadan
Abadan ( fa, آبادان ''Ābādān'', ) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in the southwest of Iran. It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide). The island is bounded ...
) is an Iranian linguist and professor of
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
at the
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
.
He is the creator of
Bijankhan Corpus
The Bijankhan corpus ( fa, پیکرهٔ بیجنخان) is a tagged corpus that is suitable for natural language processing (NLP) research on the Persian language. This collection is gathered from daily news and common texts. In this collect ...
and a winner of
Khwarizmi International Award.
Bijankhan received his BSc in
applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...
from the
University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Te ...
(1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from the University of Tehran.
He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.
Voice onset time in Persian initial and intervocalic stop production
/ref>
Books
* ''Phonology: Optimality Theory'', Tehran: SAMT, 2006
* ''A Feasibility Study for Analysis of Ezafe in Persian Using Pattern Matching'', Tehran: Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication, 2008
* ''Persian Language and Computers'' (ed.), Tehran: SAMT, 2011
* ''Frequency Dictionary'', Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2013
* ''Phonetic System of the Persian Language'', Tehran: SAMT, 2014
See also
* Bijankhan Corpus
The Bijankhan corpus ( fa, پیکرهٔ بیجنخان) is a tagged corpus that is suitable for natural language processing (NLP) research on the Persian language. This collection is gathered from daily news and common texts. In this collect ...
References
External links
Articles by Bijankhan
Bijankhan Corpus
Persian Corpora
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bijankhan, Mahmood
1958 births
Living people
Linguists from Iran
University of Tehran alumni
University of Texas at Arlington alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Iranian phonologists
Phoneticians
Corpus linguists
Linguists of Persian
Grammarians of Persian
Grammarians from Iran
Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni