Currently, stylistic analysis of natural language texts is achieved through a wide variety of techniques containing many different algorithms, feature sets and collection methods. Most machine-learning methods rely on feature extraction to model the text and perform classification. But what are the best features for making style based distinctions? While many researchers have developed particul...

The Nevha-i Dil of Ahmed Servet (1845-1895), who was a tekke poet and produced works in the same years as Ara Nesil poets, is shown sources an unpublished. However, research showed that Kitabç Kasbar published book 1893 (h. 1311). Accordingly, text has been latinized. should be analyzed, its place Karbala Elegies determined. In this context, elegy genre examined defined on structuralist plane. ...

Film adaptations are becoming more popular and past critics and scholars have discussed films based on dramas and novels. However, few have explored the children’s literature genre. In discussing such a topic, it takes more than just debating whether the novel or book is better. A discussion on what elements have been maintained, removed, or added in such an adaptation has to be made along with...

The purpose of this narrative study was to describe the role and potentials of drama groups for enhancing and maintaining well-being for female drama group members living with HIV in Uganda. Six semi-structured interviews were carried out and analyzed through a thematic analysis. The analysis was made within a theoretical framework based upon Sen's notion of the capability approach and social p...

Schellenberg (2004) assigned 144 6-year-old children to one of four treatments in a pretest-posttest design. Subjects experienced either keyboard, Kodaly voice, drama, or no lessons over an academic year. Schellenberg reported a significant difference of 2.7 IQ points if the keyboard and voice results were combined and contrasted against the combined drama and no-lessons results. Steele (2005) ...

IDtension is an Interactive Drama project initiated 10 years ago (Szilas, 1999). It aims at providing long term solutions to the problem of combining narrativity and interactivity. IDtension has been demoed in 2002 (COSIGN) and 2006 (IUI, TIDSE). Our motivation to demo IDtension again is twofold: 1) IDtension has never been demoed in North America; 2) The newest version has been improved and ai...