Conversations for Cooperation refer to the perspectives on design of cooperative systems which rely on the today prevalent conversational analogy— i.e., viewing communication with and through computers as a conversation. Among those perspectives are the ones based on the “models of language use” of Clark and his colleagues. From my experience of Clark and colleagues’ models of the referring pro...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

This paper examines the use of leprosy as a literary motif in poetry, narrative literature, and homilies from England and Scotland between the 1200s and 1500s, the time period during which a shift in leprosy’s literary connotations is visible. It tracks the changes in leprosy’s meaning, as it moves from a disease signifying holy suffering and nearness to God to a physical representation of a di...

There is growing recognition among educators of the need for establishing practical pedagogical approaches that facilitate the development of literary understanding. "Literary understanding" is that form of thinking which is characteristically divergent and inward, focused on "personal meanings, understandings of human situations and the complex web of relationships embedded in them" (Langer, i...

This paper proposes a graph based methodology for automatically disambiguating authors’ mentions in a corpus of French literary criticism. Candidate referents are identified and evaluated using a graph based named entity linking algorithm, which exploits a knowledge-base built out of two different resources (DBpedia and the BnF linked data). The algorithm expands previous ones applied for word ...

We present a generative model for conversational dialogues, namely the actortopic model (ACTM), that extend the author-topic model (Rosen-Zvi, et.al, 2004) to identify actors of given conversation in literary narratives. Thus ACTM assigns each instance of quoted speech to an appropriate character. We model dialogues in a literary text, which take place between two or more actors conversing on d...

The present study sets out to investigate whether the position of literary works in the English literary polysystem influences the Iranian translators’ translational behavior at the textual level. Given the prominent position of canon and bestseller novels in English literary polysystem, the study intends to find out whether the translators of canon and bestseller novels are faithful to theirso...

Electronic versions of literary works abound on the Internet and the rapid dissemination of electronic readers will make electronic books more and more common. It is often the case that literary works exist in more than one language, suggesting that, if properly aligned, they could be turned into useful resources for many practical applications, such as writing and language learning aids, trans...

While much computational work on fiction has focused on works in the literary canon, user-created fanfiction presents a unique opportunity to study an ecosystem of literary production and consumption, embodying qualities both of large-scale literary data (55 billion tokens) and also a social network (with over 2 million users). We present several empirical analyses of this data in order to illu...

that directs and is the cause of everything.” [1] With moments to expire before Athens would execute him, Plato’s Socrates was exploring the meaning of a few lines by another philosopher. To the last minute of Socrates’ dramatic life, Plato has him making important criticism on vital literary texts. Textual criticism is found throughout Plato’s works, making it his main philosophical methodolog...