The paper presents the results of experiments of usage of LSA for analysis of textual data. The method is explained in brief and special attention is pointed on its potential for comparison and investigation of German literature texts. Two hypotheses are tested: 1) the texts by the same author are alike and can be distinguished from the ones by different person; 2) the prose and poetry can be a...

Poetry is meant to express the emotions and thoughts often found difficult to state or even to put into prose. This clinician has dedicated his professional life to the rational treatment of epilepsy - for he understands only too well the consequences of varied interventions over a forty-year course of his own epilepsy. This poem is meant to remind other clinicians that quality of life may not ...

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.

Computational analysis of poetry is a challenging and interesting task in NLP. Human expertise on stylistics and aesthetics of poetry is generally expensive and scarce. In this work, we delve into the data to automatically extract stylistic and linguistic information which are useful for analysis and comparison of poems. We make use of semantic (word) features to perform subject-based classific...

ASPERA is a case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user. The cases on its case base consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Each case includes information about how the words in the prose text are related to the words in the poetry solution. T...

EXPRESSIONISM I’m going to suggest that the four-part, quatrain model of the scientific abstract or IQ has served its term. What’s been missing all these years was an important, fifth subsection: The CONTROLS, the obvious, the critical, the perfect CONTROLS! Time’s come to expand the microcosm of the abstract: The cosmos according to Hubble Expands like the soap of a bubble. Let’s hope it’s not...

The central purpose of science is to explain. However, who is that explanation for, and how is this explanation communicated once it has been deduced? Scientific research is typically communicated via papers in journals, with an abstract presented as a summary of that explanation. However, in many instances they may be written in a manner which is non-communicatory to a lay reader. This study b...

The history of medicine has conventionally been studied by research into prose medical texts, which provide an index of the depth of the professional knowledge available to the contemporary physician, but examination of poetry gives a measure of the diffusion of this knowledge into the laity. William Harvey's monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood in 1628 is now acknowledged as a ...

Composers often face the task of composing melodies for given texts such as religious hymns, poetry or the libretto of an opera. A plausible point of departure for writing melodies for a text is to study the prosody of the text as spoken either naturally or dramatically. In this paper we introduce PROSE: a system for aiding such study. The system extracts the prosody of a spoken signal and (re)...