This paper presents a training method that encodes each word into a different vector in semantic space and its relation to low entropy coding. Elman network is employed in the method to process word sequences from literary works. The trained codes possess reduced entropy and are used in ranking, indexing, and categorizing literary works. A modification of the method to train the multi-vector fo...

In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene may undermine this claim. Tracing some of the historical and philosophical complexities that circulate around the word 'gene', the article argues that in one sense 'the gene' plays the le...

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

In this paper a social network is extracted from a literary text. The social network shows, how frequent the characters interact and how similar their social behavior is. Two types of similarity measures are used: the first applies co-occurrence statistics, while the second exploits cosine similarity on different types of word embedding vectors. The results are evaluated by a paid micro-task cr...

TAGH is a system for automatic recognition of German word forms. It is based on a stem lexicon with allomorphs and a concatenative mechanism for inflection and word formation. Weighted FSA and a cost function are used in order to determine the correct segmentation of complex forms: the correct segmentation for a given compound is supposed to be the one with the least cost. TAGH is based on a la...

Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.  The grammar of present-day English is closely related to that of Old English with the same tense formation and word orders. The verse unit is a single line and its org...