Currently, there is some scientific interest on studying creativity and how it can be modeled by computer programs. One of the active subareas focuses on the generation of text, with some prior success systems. In this paper, we describe an example of this kind of system that automatically generates texts related to Greek mythology. We have elaborated on ideas coming from computer creativity, s...

with the growth of social,cultural and religious exchanges in the world, the translation of religious-islamic texts into german has been spreading in iran.in this way,there is a special sensitivity in translation that the translators face and difficulties which are sometimes insolvable.this sensitivity involves both the structure and content of the texts, because errors and mistakes in the tran...

This study contributes to the sociological study of suicide via an exploration of the implications and application of literary texts in sociological analysis. The examination of two pairs of literary texts suggests that some cases of suicide can be self-affirming. When the characters find themselves in circumstances that threaten their perception of who they are in their social contexts, they m...

This article concerns secrets and secrecy in narrative works. The author, following the footsteps of Auerbach Kermode, argues that should be understood as discontinuous places, gaps demand to filled. Kermode pointed biblical origins secret narrative. latter Genesis Secrecy. On Interpretation Narrative noted presuppose a mode initiation – this was case gospel St Mark he analysed, addressed belie...

In this work a machine learning oriented perspective on computer aided support to literary analysis is presented. A representation of narrative phenomena is proposed and an automatic annotation model for such phenomena is trained on texts provided by a critic. As a short-term research task, we studied how the observable textual piece of evidence impact on the learning agent capabilities, over a...

The MULINCO project (MUltiLINgual Corpus of the University of Copenhagen) started early 2005. The purpose of this crossdisciplinary project is to create a corpus platform for education and research in monolingual and translation studies. The project covers two main types of corpus texts: literary and non-literary. The platform is being developed using available tools as far as possible, and int...

the feminist literary criticism is a kind of criticism which deals with the masculine works and unveils the gynophobia of literary system. this school of thought believes that the masculine norms rule over literature and feminine experiences, desires, interests and emotions have turned pale and have been shown unimportant under these norms. so, the feminist literary criticism intends to reveal ...

Given multiple corrupted versions of the same text, as is common with ancient manuscripts, we wish to reconstruct the original text from which the extant corrupted versions were copied (typically via latent intermediary versions). This is a challenge of cardinal importance in the humanities. We use a variant of expectation-maximization (EM), to solve this problem. We prove the efficacy of our m...

This paper describes a query system on texts and literary material with advanced information retrieval tools. As a test bed we chose the electronic version of Dante’s Inferno, manually tagged using XML, enriched with a domain ontology describing the historical, social and cultural context represented as a separate XML document.

How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one, or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, desc...