Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

CBROnto is an ontology that incorporates common CaseBased Reasoning (CBR) terminology and serves as a domain-independent framework to design CBR applications. It is the core of COLIBRI, an environment to assist during the design of knowledge intensive CBR systems that combine cases with various knowledge types and reasoning methods. CBROnto captures knowledge about CBR tasks and methods, and ai...

Traditional poetry translation studies often emphasize on the reproduction of the form or meaning and the translatability of poetry, not beyond the constraints of linguistic analysis. This paper sets out to discuss English translation of Chinese poems within a larger social, political and cultural context. According to André Lefevere, the leading representative of “Cultural school”, translation...

This chapter is dedicated to the capture, preservation, reuse and learning of agricultural knowledge. We illustrate the potential of information technology with a simple example of a writing pen. Before the age of information, a person with a pen or pencil could write beautiful poetry. If she gave or loaned the pen to someone else, she could no longer write poetry, but the other person, would h...

Logic programming rules are provided to capture the rules governing formal poetry in Spanish. The resulting logic program scans verses in Spanish to provide their metric analysis. The program uses DCG grammars to model the division of each word into syllables, and additional predicates are employed to de ne metric phenomena such as synaloepha, syllable count of a verse, rhyme of a word... The s...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...

parvin e'tesami is one of the famous outstanding persian poets of the constitutional era and also the reign of pahlavi i who composed her poems based on persian classical literature with moral contents and new political and social themes in the field of didactic literature. under the influence of european newfangled intellectuals, romanticism formed during 18th century and devided into dif...

poetry and myth are intertwined and most of the poets often live in the mythological spaces for moments. myths help poetry being prosperous and having multi-layered meaning through its symbolic expression. with the development and progress of science, the influence of myths in human societies decreased; however they have not generally lost their impact, especially in literature. so we are to fi...

Abstract Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaq...

This Study addresses some of the poetry experiences that attracts attention. Due to mixing with arts such as cinema, which has always been approaching literature, especially poetry, from very beginning. Therefore, Qasida enjoys properties scenario stages can have a higher literary value, due fact there are many similarities between framework is processed by scriptwriter, and how sentences arran...