Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. By Geert Jan van Gelder

Classical Arabic Poetry Categorization Using N-gram Frequency Statistics

Most of the Arabic language vocabulary is built from the roots derivation. These roots are words composed of three to five consonants letters. Any performance in Arabic language for the purpose of information retrieval needs to deal with the language morphological and structural changes first (which is called the stemming process) then a statistical method for extracting information is implemen...

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full moon, is part of the moon in a shadow? The most common answer, even among smart undergraduates at the best institutions, is something like this: Earth blocks light from the sun, causing a shadow, and the moon happens to sit on the boundary of that shadow; hence, part of the moon is lit up, while the rest is in darkness. This answer is, of course, wrong. It reflects a widely held misconcept...

Jan van Mill

De Groot proved that every group is the autohomeomorphism group of some metrizable space. A space is totally disconnected if every connected subset of it contains at most one point. We prove that every separable metrizable totally disconnected topological group is topologically isomorphic to the autohomeomorphism group of some separable metrizable space, when given the compact-open topology. It...

The Poetry of Sound

plicitly, by an equally nebulous third term: sense. The relation is ambiguous, and shift-­ ing, because sound—especially in the context of poetry—is of that species of homographs which produce their own antonyms.4 On the one hand, sound—defined as “the au-­ dible articulation(s) corresponding to a let-­ ter or word” (def. 4b)—has been understood as distinct from linguistic meaning: “the sound m...

Jan A . van Gils Matthijs van der Geest Jutta Leyrer