The current medical students' training on communication skills does not completely fulfil its purpose, since it often lacks attention to the various aspects essential for developing an empathic capacity. Besides having an active component in empathy, cognitive and affective aspects are of equal importance. Integration of arts and humanities courses into the curriculum might bridge this gap. Emp...

Based on data from a large-scale experiment with human subjects, we conclude that the logarithm of probability to guess a word in context (unpredictability) depends linearly on the word length. This result holds both for poetry and prose, even though with prose, the subjects don’t know the length of the omitted word. We hypothesize that this effect reflects a tendency of natural language to hav...

Poetry composition is a very complex task that requires a poet to satisfy multiple constraints concurrently. We believe that the task can be augmented by combining the creative abilities of humans with computational algorithms that efficiently constrain and permute available choices. We present a hybrid method for generating poetry from prose that combines crowdsourcing with natural language pr...

A geração computacional do que pode ser concebido e reconhecido como "poesia verbal" é explorada, há muitas décadas, em línguas naturais. Mas apenas projetos recentemente desenvolvidos possuem aplicação intensiva da computação, considerando muitos níveis de organização, linguísticos paralinguísticos, fonológicos, rítmicos, sintáticos, semânticos, até pragmáticos. O apresentamos aqui um sistema ...

A case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user is presented. Cases consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Adaptation takes place by combining phonetic, metrical and lexical information about the words in the different sources the prose message...

There exist debates about “poetry” and “prose” styles in the translations of Shakespeare’s works continuously, there are circumstances one sticking to its own style, partializing belittling other. The “verse” school Shakespeare translation maintains that original plays verse, unique 16th 17th-century English poetic dramas (blank verse), which does not rhyme but has a distinct rhythm different f...

this article answers an old controversial question which asks whether poetry is better or prose. this question has been raised since such subjects as grammar, oratory, rhetoric, etc. appeared. no definite resolution has yet been reached. generally speaking authors, critics, and thinkers have divided among themselves into two groups. the first group defends verse or poetry. the second group defe...