How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

This paper discusses the Islamic tolerance of other faiths and belief systems. Islam also advocates diversity. The conflict between religions can be avoided through tolerance; thus, harmony unity fostered in a pluralistic society. Therefore, discussion this article focuses on Quranic view practical to avoid conflicts which are direct result failure appreciate values underpin teachings. Using do...

This work is an effort towards building Neural Speech Recognizers system for Quranic recitations that can be effectively used by anyone regardless of their gender and age. Despite having a lot available online, most them are recorded professional male adult reciters, which means ASR trained on such datasets would not female/child reciters. We address this gap adopting benchmark dataset audio re...

The linguistic fund, that is, the actual lexical inventory of a language, is always considerably larger than the sum total of the contents of dictionaries for that language. It corresponds to all the possibilities of derivation and compounding-with the associated word-formation rules. The exploitation of the latter. within machine-readable dictionaries should therefore allow a far more accurate...