Author discrimination consists of checking whether two texts are written by the same author or not. In this investigation, we try to make an author discrimination between the Quran (The holy words and statements of God in the Islamic religion) and the Hadith (statements said by the prophet Muhammad). The Quran is taken in its entirety, whereas for the Prophet’s statements, we chose only the cer...

self confronted with a difficulty which is pithily expressed by the phrase embarrass des richesses; Deuitt, Holmes, Beyant, Eeichsen, G-ant and we hope soon to add Agnew, each admirable in its way and specially valuable from some special point of view ; all sound and complete embodiments of modern surgery. We have not included in the list of text books Paget's immortal work or Billeoth's splend...

Epistemologies in the Text of Children's Books: Nativeand non-Nativeauthored books Morteza Dehghani a , Megan Bang b , Douglas Medin c , Ananda Marin c , Erin Leddon c & Sandra Waxman c a Brain and Creativity Institute , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , USA b College of Education , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA c Department of Psychology , Northwestern Univ...

Epistemologies in the Text of Children's Books: Nativeand non-Nativeauthored books Morteza Dehghani a , Megan Bang b , Douglas Medin c , Ananda Marin c , Erin Leddon c & Sandra Waxman c a Brain and Creativity Institute , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , USA b College of Education , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA c Department of Psychology , Northwestern Univ...

In this paper, we describe a framework for vocabulary acquisition using audio books. The proposed framework performs automatic alignment of text and large speech files in audio books. This enables highlighting of words and sentences during voice over. The proposed framework can be easily extended to a large number of audio books. We evaluate this framework on a set of subjects between the age o...

Google books has been criticized for faulty metadata, problems with search functionality, copyright infringement, and legibility of scanned texts. This paper explores only the legibility of texts scanned by Google Books. A review of 2500 pages from 50 randomly selected books was undertaken. The results show less than 1% of pages had errors that affected their legibility. This paper concludes th...