or represent aspects of nature or the language-user's own general or circumstantial experience. In his book Professor Bazerman rarely avoids assuming as obvious the distinction between language and that which language is about, so that statements like the following are typical: "Experimental reports attach themselves to the nature that surrounds the text through the representation of the doings...

This paper presents how Natural Language Processing is taught to students of a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies. These students’ background is solely humanistic, and they have no knowledge whatsoever of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The challenge is to introduce these students to the main aspects of NLP in a 20-hour course, and show them how they can apply these techniques to the analys...

along with the beginning of novel and short story writing in persian and urdu languages various literary movements like realism, social realism and surrealism overshadowed the contemporary literature of iran and pakistan. modern prose of persian and urdu consists of great assets from novels and short stories, and their considerable background . during various periods of the growth and prosperit...

We consider the task of predicting how literary a text is, with a gold standard from human ratings. Aside from a standard bigram baseline, we apply rich syntactic tree fragments, mined from the training set, and a series of hand-picked features. Our model is the first to distinguish degrees of highly and less literary novels using a variety of lexical and syntactic features, and explains 76.0 %...

Preliminary surveys show that the lan­ guage of blogs is not restricted to the more informal levels of expression. In­ stead blogs may include many kinds of written language: from simple personal notes to literary prose or poetry. The pa­ per presents a sample of Italian blogs and comments on the results of the search of literary forms in two Web corpora using search engine queries.

in the past, residents of arabic island were divided into ghahtanis or hemieris in south and adnanis in north. these two were great nations that left several texts from their own language that there is no doubt about the authenticity of them. by scientific analysis of these texts, historical and literary results can be drawn. the ancient linguists believed that ghahtani's language is diffe...

Translation is an indispensable tool for communication between the diverse linguistic groups. It opens new horizons for the people living in a country so that it makes changes and improvements in their society, especially in the literature. Through the translation process, some literary principles and elements are introduced into the home literature which did not exist before. These features em...