Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Research in Persian Natural Language Processing - History and State of the Art -- 2 Challenges of Persian NLP: The Importance of Text Normalization -- 3 Dabire: A Phonemic Orthography for Persian -- 4 Speech Recognition for Persian -- 5 Syntactic Parsing of Persian: From Theory to Practice -- 6 Persian Named Entity Recognition with Structural Prediction Methods -- 7 Multiword Expressions in Persian -- 8 Machine Translation: From Paper Tapes to Neural Networks -- 9 Distributional Word Representation for Persian -- Index