In this essay I propose a hermeneutic model of the higher level understanding during on-line ritual reading by devotees of their respective sacred literatures, using the instruments provided by cognitive sciences. The way a devotee reads a sacred text differs from the way he or she would read a common piece of literature or how a lay person might read the same sacred text. After providing an ov...

Recognizing text from natural images is still a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications. Despite the enduring research of several decades on optical character recognition (OCR), recognizing texts from natural images is still a challenging task. This is because scene texts are often in irregular arrangements (curved, arbitrarily-oriented or seriously distorted), whi...

This study interprets Sufi narratives and perceptions of the participants to evaluate how metaphors personifications are applied add meaning text. The ghazals by Shad Azeem Abadi (Trans. Abadi, 2008) Hazrat Shah Niaz Sag-e-dar-Niaz, 2009), were selected hold a dialogue between what was said understood. For this purpose, three tenets Hermeneutic approach i.e. hermeneutic situation, circle, fusio...

Only a hermeneutically oriented approach to knowledge can overcome the problems of incommensurability that arise in science, in general, and, information systems research, in particular. We argue that information systems research, especially when focused on systems integration, will advance if its problems are understood using Gadamer’s concept of fusion of horizons. We extend Boland’s work on ...