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...

The connection between written literature and its oral forms has long interested scholars. Literary scholars, however, have paid little attention to stuttering and its relationship to literature. The stutterer is keenly aware of the difficult world between the written and the spoken word; between the word on paper and speech itself.1 The stutterer accords his own speech an extraordinary degree ...

External factors such as author gender, author nationality, and date of publication affect both the choice of literary themes in novels and the expression of those themes, but the extent of this association is difficult to quantify. In this work, we apply statistical methods to identify and extract hundreds of "topics" from a corpus of 3,346 works of 19th-century British, Irish, and American fi...

Translators always seek to find the best equivalents for each word, sentence or phrase in the target language (TL) in order to have the most accurate and meaningful translation of the text. Generally, a translator’s main concern is whether to prefer the form over the content or vice versa. In translation studies, literal translation prioritizes the form while free translation concentrates on th...

Based on a comprehensive word-color association lexicon, we present Lexichrome: a web-based application that offers its visitors an ability to browse a catalogue of visual relationships between words and colors. Additionally, the application seeks to allow literary scholars, brand managers, and writers to further examine a trend in the popular notion of word-color associations through user-prov...

We present a manually annotated word alignment of Franz Kafka’s “Verwandlung” and use this as a controlled test case to assess the principled usefulness of word alignment as an additional information source for the (monolingually motivated) identification of literary characters, focusing on the technically wellexplored task of co-reference resolution. This pilot set-up allows us to illustrate a...

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...

Literature is a form of expression whose temporal structure, both in content and style, provides a historical record of the evolution of culture. In this work we take on a quantitative analysis of literary style and conduct the first large-scale temporal stylometric study of literature by using the vast holdings in the Project Gutenberg Digital Library corpus. We find temporal stylistic localiz...

literary criticism is one of the most challenging courses, if not the most problematic course, to teach on the curriculum of literature in iranian universities. this course has in fact been designed to familiarise students with a variety of critical approaches to literature. as such, faculty members who teach this course are required to cover a range of theories that often negate or dialectical...