The religion of Islam is based on a sacred text called Qur‟an, a divine speech expressed in Arabic language. Qur‟an constitutes the main root of Islam jurisprudence which has a second source of inspiration known as Hadiths. As the Muslim‟s life is governed by those holy texts, need of their authenticity is required. Using VSM (Vector Space Model), we can represent Hadiths as a vector of words. ...

Few studies have investigated multitasking in joint actions, especially two joint actions performed by two people together and coordinated via multimodal communication. We investigate the case of two people walking and talking together, a common combination of joint actions. In an experiment, pairs talked together in four varying conditions of mobility. A narrator told a story to a partner. The...

This paper explores the tensions and incongruities between conventional thesis presentation and the principles of action research. Through the experiences of the authors alternative approaches to thesis structure are proposed which are argued to be more congruent with the epistemological, methodological and ethical aspects of action research. Consistent with our arguments, the paper is presente...

Although contemporary historical novels share a number of features with the traditional historical novel, as analysed by Lukács (1981), they display a fundamental change in the perception of history, evident in the disappearance of the omniscient narrator, in their choice of significant and representative figures, and scepticism regarding teleology of history or the world-historical role of war...

Arkady and Boris Strugatskys novel One Billion Years to the End of World has certain features in terms subject organization. The article is devoted analysis authors strategy for building a dialogue with reader novel. Arguments are made prove that primary speech personified narrator disguising as impersonal; form diary entries designed establish trusting relationship reader, while main used by u...

Edgar Allan Poe’s tales offer a variety of instances linked to the analysis of human nature and the processes it goes through during the stories. Most of them treat about the destruction of the self as the narrator finds himself confronted with the darkness that gradually will come to annihilate reason and any sensible thinking. The protagonist witnesses not only the darkness inside, but also t...

Browser history supports users reflecting upon their past, proceeding in decision making and revisiting web pages seen before while browsing the Web. However current implementations fail to provide a proficient solution for the users’ need. An approach for improving the visualization of the browser history is described in this paper by drawing an analogy between hypertext and storytelling. Ther...

To generate a new concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) voice from recordings of a human’s voice, not only recordings but also additional information such as the transcriptions, prosodic labels, and the phonemic alignments are necessary. Since some of the information depends on the speaking style of the narrator, these types of information need to be manually added by listening to the recordings, ...

This paper introduces a large-scale phonetically-balanced English speech corpus developed at ATR for corpus-based speech synthesis. This corpus includes a 16-hour American English speech data spoken by a professional male narrator in “reading style.” The contents of prompt sentences concern basically news articles, travel conversations, and novels. The prompt sentences were selected from huge c...

In this paper we present a five variable approach to measuring narrative cohesion. Increasingly narratives are dynamically adapted for presentation to enhance personalisation or fit different presentational objectives. Narrative generation systems seek to either automatically generate stories from scratch or, create stories from predefined conditions. With the rise of machines as co-authors it ...