We present the Vancouver Event and Relation System for Extraction (VERSE)1 as a competing system for three subtasks of the BioNLP Shared Task 2016. VERSE performs full event extraction including entity, relation and modification extraction using a feature-based approach. It achieved the highest F1-score in the Bacteria Biotope (BB3) event subtask and the third highest F1-score in the Seed Devel...

the subject of the present research would be the investigation on the qur’anic causes of religious veil for women. determining the jurisprudential decree of women’s wear and considering various functions of it, this research clarifies the kind and limit of clothing in the 59th verse of surah al- ahzab. in this regard, firstly it is considered the function of “this is because of …” and the ideas...

The previous chapters have been devoted to the development of the modern grammar which is the main concern of this study. The grammar (as well as the five subgrammars) is modern in the sense that it captures the modern speaker’s scansion of classical Chinese verse. At the same time, the apparent ancient nature of the corpus implies the relevance of a historical dimension of the issue, which wil...

This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

This paper presents a set of tools designed to assist traditional Basque verse writers during the composition process. In this article we are going to focus on the parts that have been created using finite-state technology: this includes tools such as syllable counters, rhyme checkers and a rhyme search utility. 1 The BAD tool and the Basque singing tradition The BAD tool is an assistant tool f...

WASP is a forward reasoning rule-based system that takes as input data a set of words and a set of verse patterns and returns a set of verses. Using a generate and test method, guided by a set of construction heuristics obtained from formal literature on Spanish poetry, the system can operate in two modes: either generating an unrestricted set of verses, or generating a poem according to one of...

In the paper, we describe an algorithm for generating Czech iambic verse and its implementation on a computer. It is a continuation of the work first done in 1972 [6], in which a program generating Czech iambic verse had been developed, written in the programming language Algol-Genius and run on the mainframe SAAB D21 with interesting results. Here, we present a new experiment which is a follow...