minimalist story is a kind of very short story that is summarized sometimes in some lines and sometimes in one page. it tells a short event and in addition includes deep contents.studying verses of holy quran we can see stories in different forms and lengths. meanwhile there are some storiesthat are not more than some lines in lengthso it is possible for the researcher to evaluate these stories...

State education systems in Sahelian countries do not teach religious education, which is provided by the informal sector. This article is a rst attempt to quantitatively study how this dual educational system works and whether the potential competition between both systems is a key factor behind low primary school enrolment in Senegal. The analysis is based on a unique national dataset covering...

Koranic text is one of the most widely written Arabic texts and though it is written in Arabic language, it needs special handling because of the its unique orthographic conventions. Unicode has long supported special Koranic characters, but there still few more needed for proper encoding of Koranic text. The L2/09-419 proposal takes step towards full Koran coverage in Unicode, but we believe i...

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...