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Parallel corpora are the necessary resources in many multilingual natural language processing applications, including machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. Manual preparation of a large scale parallel corpus is a very time consuming and costly procedure. In this paper, the work towards building a sentence-level aligned English-Persian corpus in a semi-automated manner is presented. The design of the corpus, collection, and alignment process of the sentences is described. Two statistical similarity measures were used to find the similarities of sentence pairs. To verify the alignment process automatically, Google Translator was used. The corpus is based on news... 

The sliding frictional contact problem for a laterally graded half-plane has been considered. Two finite element (FE) models, in macro and micro scales have been developed to investigate the effective parameters in contact mechanics of laterally graded materials loaded by flat and triangular rigid stamps. In macro scale model, the laterally graded half-plane is discretized by piecewise homogeneous layers for which the material properties are specified at the centroids by Mori-Tanaka method. In micro scale model, functionally graded material (FGM) structure has been modeled as ideal solid quadrant particles which are spatially distributed in a homogeneous matrix. Boundary conditions and...