A system is presented for spotting and searching keywords in handwritten Arabic documents. A slightly modified dynamic time warping algorithm is used to measure similarities between words. Two sets of features are generated from the outer contour of the words/word-parts. The first set is based on the angles between nodes on the contour and the second set is based on the shape context features t...

We present an interactive method to restore severely damaged historical parchments. When damaged by heat in a fire, such manuscripts undergo a complex deformation and contain various geometric distortions such as wrinkling, buckling, and shrinking, rendering them nearly illegible. They cannot be physically flattened due to the risk of further damage. We propose a virtual restoration framework t...

Historical documents contain facts that family history enthusiasts are interested in extracting. In addition to fact extraction, organizing these facts into disambiguated entity records is also of interest. This paper shows how facts from an excerpt of a page in an OCRed book can be gathered automatically with some expert knowledge.

Training recognizers for handwritten characters is still a very time consuming task involving tremendous amounts of manual annotations by experts. In this paper we present semi-supervised labeling strategies that are able to considerably reduce the human effort. We propose two different methods to label and later recognize characters in collections of historical archive documents. The first one...

Previous work on XML association rule mining focuses on mining from the data existing in XML documents at a certain time point. However, due to the dynamic nature of online information, an XML document typically evolves over time. Knowledge obtained from mining the evolvement of an XML document would be useful in a wide range of applications, such as XML indexing, XML clustering. In this paper,...

Current approaches in Digital .Humanities tend to ignore a central aspect of any hermeneutic introspection: the intrinsic vagueness of analyzed texts. Especially when dealing with historical documents neglecting vagueness has important implications on the interpretation of the results. In this paper we present current limitation of annotation approaches and describe a current methodology for an...

Sheikh Safi mausoleum includes a number of buildings of different periods, which Shah Tahmasb first turned them into a single complex. Later, Shah Abbas amended this complex and added important buildings to it. In general, the great importance of this historical monument is reflected in its relationship with the Safavid dynasty.  According to the travelogues and tourists and historians’ writin...

Given that Peighambarieh street in the historical context And valuable Qazvin, Which has historical and cultural, But it seems This street appeared during the time period until today, There were many inconsistencies, Therefore, it is necessary that this study, considering all the physical and non-cellular factors affecting the range, Provide solutions for it. Research Objectives include: 1- Rec...

due to structural characteristics and spiritual concepts which are latent inside iranian gardens, it has always drawn attention of domestic and foreign researchers and one of the objectives of these researchers was an attempt to achieve historical garden model in iran which have been modified or subjected to decline. the studies, which have been carried out concerning to iranian historical gard...