We describe a corpus-based poetry generation system which uses templates to construct poems according to given constraints on rhyme, meter, stress, sentiment, word frequency and word similarity. Moreover, the software constructs a mood for the day by analysing newspaper articles; uses this to determine both an article to base a poem on and a template for the poem; creates an aesthetic based on ...

Outlining an educational initiative for those who work in the National Health Service (NHS), this article argues that literary reflection has been too easily seen as a simple tool which may improve the practitioner's empathic skills and benefit patient-centred care. Using anecdotal feedback, the author reports ways in which a series of literary workshops held for professionals in the NHS have a...

Abstract The 177-verse Arabic Poem of the Intellect ( Qaṣīdat al-ʿAql ) composed by Indian Fatimid-Ṭayyibī Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (d. 1385/1965) breaks new ground in substance and form. In form, poem creatively amalgamates genres qaṣīdah (poem), risālah (treatise), waṣiyyah (testament) to produce an eloquent innovative hybrid text. content, it uniquely combines a philosophical ...

Dialogues and collaborations between scientists and nonscientists are now widely understood as important elements of scientific research and public engagement with science. In recognition of this, the authors, a neuroscientist and a poet, use a dialogical approach to extend questions and ideas first shared during a lab-based poetry residency. They recorded a conversation and then expanded it in...

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...