Exudates are one of the chief signs of diabetic retinopathy, which is a main root of blindness and can be prevented with an early screening process. In this article, authors have attempted to detect exudates using back propagation neural network. The publicly available diabetic retinopathy dataset DIARETDB1 has been used in the evaluation process. To prevent the optic disk from interfering with...

This paper proposesmetrics to evaluate the quality of automatically generatedmetaphors not restricted to similes. The metrics are metaphoricity, novelty, comprehensibility, and overall evaluation. First, we discuss their importance and necessity. Next, we show that it is feasible to evaluate them by crowdsourcing. The targets of the evaluation are 1,360 expressions, each of which consists of a ...

The aim of the present paper is to provide an insight into the issue of idiom comprehension in patients who are in the process of recovery from the syndrome of aphasia. Research in figurative language comprehension has seen a robust development in the recent decades. However, it has not been until quite recently that psycholinguists began to delve into the aspect of metaphorical language compre...

Lyrics are rich in features such as rhyme, pleasantness, similes, metaphors and more. Many of these features are exclusive to lyrics. We have estimated that more than two thousand Tamil lyrics are being created every year in various forms. Modeling the lyric-specific features becomes an essential task in organizing the lyrics for retrieval and analysis. In this paper, we propose three scoring m...

Many of the beliefs that one uses to reason about everyday entities and events are neither strictly true or even logically consistent. Rather, people appear to rely on a large body of folk knowledge in the form of stereotypical associations, clichés and other kinds of naturalistic descriptions, many of which express views of the world that are second-hand, overly-simplified and, in some cases, ...

Hitherto, theories of similarity have restricted themselves to judgments of what might be called literal similarity. A central thesis of this article is that a complete account of similarity needs also to be sensitive to nonliteralness, or metaphoricity, an aspect of similarity statements that is most evident in similes but that actually underlies metaphorical language in general. Theoretical a...

The period of Sangam literature was preceded by the Natrinai period, first literary work compiled. It is a book that combines richness with grammatical richness. parables in narrative add beauty to songs abundance and detail. This thesis intended explain how parable, which composed numbers details, makes sense poems. tendency compare one thing another natural characteristic all human beings. op...

The article deals with the study of linguo-stylistic means comic category representation at lexico-semantic level. Modern English prose is characterized by a specific modality, which characteristic feature author’s individual style. leading level, that contribute to realization effect in belles-letters texts, have been analyzed. material research English-language works small forms most prominen...

This study examined whether the number of shared topic-vehicle significant features affects speakers’ preference for use metaphorical rather than literal expressions. Across five experiments, participants were asked to choose one expression that best paraphrased a given sentence from list options. The results Experiments 1 and 5 showed participants’ choice increased with greater numbers in sent...