Current machine translation (MT) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) can enable the production of high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is it feasible to translate a literary work (fiction, short story, etc) using such an MT+PE pipeline? This paper offers an initial response to this question. An essay by the American writer Richard Powers, cur...

Walter Skeat published his critical edition of William Langland’s 14 century alliterative poem, Piers Plowman, in 1886. In preparation for this he located forty-five manuscripts, and to compare dialects, he published excerpts from each of these. This paper does three statistical analyses using these excerpts, each of which mimics a task he did in writing his critical edition. First, he combined...

Introduction Both Edmund Burke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be grouped among the key thinkers of the eighteenth century. They are widely understood to be quite different from one another, and their outlooks—especially their political-philosophical views—are often contrasted by scholars. Among those who have profitably contrasted Burke with Rousseau is the early twentieth century literary schol...

â â â  as any method of criticisn enjoys a specific discourse and critics follow their specific style of criticism, crystallized in the concepts and, ideas they use or the mastery they show, this study investigates the critical concepts and strategies lå«wä«s 'äªwad uses in his work. we hope that we have been able to describe his characteristic critical style and his multidimensional appro...

On December 21, 1817, John Keats wrote to his brothers George and Tom about a literary discussion he had recently had with the critic Charles Dilke, after which “several things dove-tailed in my mind.”1 Keats continued, “At once it struck me what quality went to form a ManofAchievement, especially inLiterature, andwhich Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, wh...

Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierchization, this article explores how critical recognition in elite newspapers is related to the recognition that authors receive from other agents in the literary field in the past half-century. We distinguish four types of institutional recognition: (a) long-term recognition in literary encyclopedias, (b) short-term recognition th...

fakhr al-dīn al-rāzī, theologian and philosopher of the 12th centuriy (1148-1209), has a huge literary production in many scholary disciplines of his time. nothwithstanding some original ideas which are mostly found in his theological and philosophical writings, most of his other works are compilations based on other sources. some of these sources still exist, while most of the others seem to h...

The origins of colour photography are typically traced to mid-nineteenth-century ‘threecolour’ processes based on a mixture of three primary colours. At the time, however, images produced by these means were pejoratively labelled ‘photographs in colours’ and not ‘colour photographs’ because they did not result solely from the direct action of light. In 1891, the French physicist Gabriel Lippman...

In this report we present the work done on the first subtask of the DEFT 2014 challenge which dealt with genre classification of French literary texts. In our approach we developed three types of features : lemmatized words, stylometric features and features that incorporate some form of world knowledge. Subsequent classification experiments were performed using the Balanced Winnow classifier. ...