proverb is one of the most beautiful rhetorical arts which makes delivering discourse close to the target and stabilizes meaning for the addressee. it has some features such as word briefness, suitable meaning,nice similie,fast circulation,ability to bring noticeable points closer to the reasonable ones and its acceptance by the public opinion. for this reason,this kind of innovative rhetorical...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

Social networks and users’ interactions are distinct features for the current Web. They constitute a fundamental part of Web 2.0, where people produce, disseminate, and consume information in new interactive forms where users are not only passive information receivers. Social media succeed to attract a large portion of online users, which explains the explosive growth of social media in terms o...

Arab scientists were several centuries ahead of our current knowledge of the curative power of hemp (Cannabis sativa L., Cannabaceae). Modern Western scientific literature ignores their contribution on the subject. We review in this paper the therapeutic uses of the plant in Arabic medicine from the 8th to the 18th century. Arab physicians knew and used its diuretic, anti-emetic, anti-epileptic...

For many years ago, handwriting is a challenger interest, both online and off line recognition of the handwriting are largely presented in literature. Latin script studies were largely presented using UNIPEN or IRONOFF databases. But Arabic studies were poorly presented in literature because there are no common Arabic d...

Modern standard Arabic (MSA) is the official language of spoken and written Arabic media. Colloquial Arabic (CA) is the set of spoken variants of modern Arabic that exist in the form of regional dialects. CA is used in informal and everyday conversations while MSA is formal communication. An Arabic speaker switches between the two variants according to the situation. Developing an automatic spe...

The written form of the Arabic language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), differs in a nontrivial manner from the various spoken regional dialects of Arabic – the true “native languages” of Arabic speakers. Those dialects, in turn, differ quite a bit from each other. However, due to MSA’s prevalence in written form, almost all Arabic datasets have predominantly MSA content. In this article, we des...

most of the researches do not differentiate between intuitive critic and passive one – in the field of features, applications and methods. this critical school is called emotional or passive critics which emphasizes aesthetics. thus sensitivity is not the only appliance to wisdom but is a mean to inspire happiness or unhappiness feeling. consequently the passive (critical) school is the result ...

Automatic speech segmentation is an essential tool for building large corpora for training continuous speech recognition systems. Manual segmentation of speech is both time consuming and an error-prone task. Several automatic segmentation systems have been proposed based on the acoustical features of the speech 5] 11]. In this paper, we present a novel technique for automatic seg-mentation of A...