Jaam-e-Jahan Nama lets you explore the maps and fly anywhere on Iran's Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain and so on. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. Jaam-e-Jahan Nama contains two parts: Earth Explorer A desktop application that makes you able to explore the Iran and other regions' earth in a 3D views and gives you rich geographical information. Map Explorer A web baed application that makes you able to interactively explore the 2D maps.
You can register to the CLEF contest at: http://clef.isti.cnr.it/2008/2008_howto.html (The Deadline is May 1, 2008). We want to mention that the main aim of this track (Persian @ CLEF), is to gather together those who are working on Persian retrieval to share their experience and raise research on Persian retrieval.
This year, University of Tehran is collaborating with Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) to organize a Persian information retrieval track in CLEF 2008. Database Research Group (DBRG) of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tehran will support the English-Persian/Persian-English cross language retrieval track of the CLEF2008 conference. The Persian Ad Hoc track offers both mono and cross language information retrieval for this year. This competitive track is a good opportunity for researchers of Persian information retrieval community to share and raise their knowledge on Persian information retrieval.
A new manually tagged corpus for NLP research on persian language.