present paper is a translation of the travelogue of sefer muratowicz, the armenian-origin polish merchant and traveler who made a journey to persia in 1602. apart from translation, we would provide, in present article, some codicological information and a content review.  because one of the travelogue versions has been corrected by tadeusz juda krusiński, his footnotes are cited as well. in pre...

in literary histories written in both iran and the west it has generally be assumed that early modern persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of western literary works. this has been and is still a claim. almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. while there is no point in denying a european influence on early modern persian literature,...

during the third/ninth century, several commentators on euclid’s elements composed blocks of propositions (called ziyadat) in which they expanded specific concepts or techniques beyond the basic discussions of euclid. among the earliest of these ziy?d?t were three propositions created by al-‘abbas b. sa‘?d al-jawhar? in an attempt to demonstrate the validity of euclid’s definitions v, 5 and v, ...

This poster introduces two pilot studies on children’s story reading and retelling using interactive media that move beyond familiar keyboard and mouse interaction. These studies formed a subset of investigations into the potential for Augmented Reality (AR) story books to engage and motivate story reading using familiar and easy to set-up technologies. We contrasted AR with two other media and...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...