alkaafi fel arooz-e-val ghavaafi written by khatib tabrizi is quite familiar for the students and researchers of the area of prosody and meter. khatib tabrizi is a sixth century scholar. the main characteristic of his age in writing books was to adapt from the texts and works of the predecessors and little use of creativity and innovation. considering the bibliography and the methodology of thi...

Comic books constitute an important heritage in many countries. Nowadays, digitization allows to search directly from content instead of metadata only (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. Only frame and speech balloon extraction have been experimented in the case of simple page structure. In fact, the page structure depends on the author which is why ...

This article concerns research based on handwritten document and electronic books. We present here the first achievements of a Hypermedia Edit and Read Station (HERS) devoted to the browsing and the edition of hypermedia documents from literary material including document images. Our purpose is twofold. First, capabilities are offered to transcribe manuscripts. Second, tools are offered to orga...

Only a few years ago, David Clark used the term "twenty-first century books" to express his optimistic view of the future of interactive videodisc technology. [1] Talking about twenty-first century books today, we certainly need to look at the more recent members of the optical media family, some of which have already entered the marketplace or will do so in the very near future. These media wi...

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

Purpose – This study, a part of JISC-funded UK National E-Books Observatory, aims to find out about the perspective of students and academics, the main e-book users, on e-books. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an analysis of two open-ended questions about e-books, contained in a UK national survey conducted between 18 January and 1 March 2008. The survey obtained a response fro...

There are billions of believers of various religions in the world and Islam is the second largest religion having 1.6 billion followers. The primary written sources of religious beliefs and practices of Muslims are the Quran and the Hadith (saying and practices of their prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him). Written text of the Quran and the Hadith books is of manageable size and hence state of t...

This contribution focuses on the relatively new phenomenon of the purely commercial availability of audiobooks, sometimes also called “spoken books”, “talking books” or “narrated books”. Having the text of a book read aloud and recorded has been for a very long time the favourite solution to make books and other texts accessible for persons with a serious reading impairment such as blindness or...

In this paper we examine topic segmentation of narrative documents, which are characterized by long passages of text with few headings. We first present results suggesting that previous topic segmentation approaches are not appropriate for narrative text. We then present a featurebased method that combines features from diverse sources as well as learned features. Applied to narrative books and...

Education has three main elements: teachers, students and text books. Many have discussed these three elements and there are plenty of texts written, but there are still many challenges to be addressed. Teachers are the main factor in teaching and training. Teaching promotes the life and life style, but training shows how to get rid of human challenges. Students often try to pass the courses in...