bostan ol-arefin va tohfat ol-moridin is one of the mystical prose texts of the khorasan area in the fifth century a.h. among the many persian literary texts, it is considered as a precious ancient source for many of the anecdotes, miracles and sayings of the sufis. furthermore, the linguistic features of this book such as numerous special vocabularies, stylistic aspects and prose similar to th...

Background Stylometry is a field that uses statistical and computational techniques to study the style of authors. Stylometry is used to address questions authenticity, authorship, and chronologies, among other questions. Most famously, Mosteller and Wallace used statistical techniques to determine the disputed authorship of the Federalist papers.1 More recently in 2015, stylometric techniques ...

Annotated corpora are invaluable resources for researchers in the humanities: on the one hand, for natural processing tasks, they can serve as standards against which results from new automatic methods can be measured; on the other hand, in corpus-based studies, they enable either to answer existing research questions or to explore original ones. In this respect, some annotation frameworks such...

Cognitive science and evolutionary psychology show great potential as explanatory paradigms for a wide array of cultural products and activities, including literature. In some scholars’ minds these two fields are emerging as the cornerstones of a major ‘‘new interdisciplinarity’’ that may well displace the relativistic interpretive paradigms that have dominated the humanities for the last few d...

A new 2-[(4-substituted-phenyl-3-chloroazetidin-2-one)-5-(2'-methylamino 4-phenyl-1', 3'-thiazolyl-]-1, 3, 4-thiadiazoles, 5(a-n) were synthesized from 2-substituted-benzylideneamino-5-[2'-methylamino-4'-phenyl-1',3'-thiazolyl]-1,3, 4-thiadiazole, 4(a-n) using 2-amino-4phenyl-1, 3-thiazole as a starting material. The synthesised compounds have been screened in vitro for their antimicrobial acti...

I enthusiastically studied Parviz et al. article (1). It was an exceptional description of the possibility that great Persian and Andalusian physicians like Haly Abbas and Ibn Rushd might be familiar with optic neuritis and its relationship with paresthesia. This has not only been significant in medical history and proves the role of Persian traditional medicine in promoting science but also pr...

We present the first study that evaluates both speaker and listener identification for direct speech in literary texts. Our approach consists of two steps: identification of speakers and listeners near the quotes, and dialogue chain segmentation. Evaluation results show that this approach outperforms a rule-based approach that is stateof-the-art on a corpus of literary texts.