Similes are easily obtained from web-driven and casebased reasoning approaches. Still, generating thoughtful figurative descriptions with meaningful relation to narrative context and author style has not yet been fully explored. In this paper, the author prepares the foundation for a computational model which can achieve this level of aesthetic complexity. This paper also introduces and evaluat...

shahāb al-din mohammad zeydari nasavi, the author of “nafsat al-masdoor”, as one of the outstanding technical, literal and stylist prose writers, had a great interest in using different innovative and expressive arrays to illustrate his works.  he looked simile as an essential element of fantasy, and a unique approach in presenting themes, ideas and sometimes transmission of emotions and feelin...

Simile and allusion are two rhetorical aspects that have been taken into consideration by the scholars of rhetoric since long time ago. Some of the Iranian poets have used the capacities of the Persian language and integrated these aspects to create a modern rhetoric which in this study is introduced as rhetorical simile. The objective of the present study is the investigation of this rhetoric ...

This study aims to analyze the Quranic similes in Parts Twenty-ninth and Thirty of Holy Quran as they contain 48 Surah from a total 114 Surah, with percentage 42%. They are Makkan except for four them (Surah Al-Insan, Al-Bayyina, Al-Zalzala, An-Nasr(. The consists two topics; first one addressed theoretical aspects term, importance simile its role clarifying intended meaning. second topic appli...

Nowadays, scanning and diffusing fac-similes are well studied and known tasks. However digitizing movable books addresses new issues. In this paper, we describe preliminary results about a software that eases the rebuilding of moving systems of such books. This tool computes, in a semi-automatic way, the reassembling of the system’s texture, the detection of the system’s shape, its rebuilding i...

Previous natural language help systems have not taken into account the user’s knowledge when formulating answers. Such pragmatic information is needed to formulate more concise and helpful answers. By not repeating things that the user already knows, a system can provide more succinct answers that, because they focus on pertinent new facts, are easier to understand. A users’s prior knowledge al...

In this paper, we argue that the metaphor form of a comparison (i.e., a topic-vehicle pair) is preferred over, and more comprehensible than, the simile form when the interpretive diversity for that comparison is high. Interpretive diversity refers to the richness of the figurative meaning of a comparison; it is high to the extent that more features or properties are related to the figurative me...