A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presented for the story rewriting task. In the story rewriting task, an exemplar story is read to the pupils and the pupils rewrite the story in their own words. This allows them to practice language skills such as spelling, d...

We describe a method for predicting a clas­ sification of an object given classifications of the objects in the training set, assuming that the pairs object/classification are generated by an i.i.d. process fr om a continuous proba­ bility distribution. Our method is a modifica­ tion of Vapnik's support-vector machine; its main novelty is that it gives not only the pre­ diction itself but also ...

This collection of writings reflects the author's unique capacity to choose a topic, to mull over it gracefully, and to evoke the perplexing nature of a number of fundamental notions (and the sentiments which these themes engender) regarding the human experience, i.e., life and death. While the writing style and diction are often in and of themselves as complex and intricate as any textbook des...

In this contribution, I identify rhetorical figures that are specific to interactive writing : figures of manipulation (meaning gestual manipulation). It’s a category on its own, along with figures of diction, construction, meaning and thought. In many computer art works, the artists use the figures of manipulation to introduce a loss of grasp. What is emphasized in such figures is the coupling...

Dans cet article, nous passons brivement en revue les mŽthodes de simulation molŽculaire applicables ˆ la prŽdiction des propriŽtŽs thermophysiques des fluides et des mŽlanges. Nous montrons, d'une part, comment la mŽthode de Monte-Carlo dans l'ensemble de Gibbs permet de prŽdire le comportement de phase de fluides rŽels dans des conditions telles que l'acquisition de donnŽes expŽrimentales se...

This paper studies the application of evolutionary arti cial neural networks to chlorophyll a pre diction in Lake Kasumigaura Unlike previous applications of arti cial neural networks in this eld the architecture of the arti cial neural network is evolved automatically rather than designed man ually The evolutionary system is able to nd a near optimal architecture of the arti cial neural networ...

poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. an examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

â â  “macaronic” literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and “macaronic verse”, in arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are composed of words which include dotted letters (mo’jamah) whereas the words in another hemstitch or stitch possess letters with no dots (mohmalah...