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 The Khwarizmi International Award is a research award given annually by the President of Iran. The awardees, 10 senior researchers and 10 young researchers, are selected by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). It h ...

. 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
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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

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Articles by Bijankhan

Bijankhan Corpus

Persian Corpora
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