ibn-e hâjib in a fictional allusion

Fictional Women in Mathematics

This article will argue that the situation for female mathematicians in fiction has improved, but that there is still cause for concern. You may wonder why you should care about this at all since these fictional women are (by definition) not real and therefore unlikely to be dues paying members of the AWM! With this in mind, in addition to providing examples of female mathematicians in literatu...

The Logic and Discovery of Textual Allusion

We describe here a method for discovering imitative textual allusions in a large collection of Classical Latin poetry. In translating the logic of literary allusion into computational terms, we include not only traditional IR variables such as token similarity and ngrams, but also incorporate a comparison of syntactic structure as well. This provides a more robust search method for Classical la...

What Belongs in a Fictional World?

How do readers create representations of fi ctional worlds from texts? We hypothesize that readers use the real world as a starting point and investigate how much and which types of real-world information is imported into a given fi ctional world. We presented subjects (N=52) with three stories and asked them to judge whether real world facts held true in the story world. Subjects’ responses in...

Ibn Tufail as a SciArtist in the Treatise of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

Ibn Tufail as a scientist as well as an artist exposes the issues of human anatomy, autopsy, and vivisection and, thereby, could be regarded as a SciArtist. SciArt might be defined as a reciprocal relation between art and science. Followings are the kinds of these interactions: artistically-inclined scientific activities,science-minded artistic activities, and intertwined scientific and artisti...

Discovering Poetic Allusion in Anthologies of Classical Japanese Poems

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

Mirroring Fictional Others