In the past we have explored different methods for abstracting information within different musical dimensions from melodies and for comparing, i.e. measuring the similarity, two abstract sequences which may represent monophonic melodies. All abstraction and similarity computation methods are implemented in our software toolbox SIMILE. The individual methods are described in greater detail in [7].

In this paper we propose a method of automatic distinction between two types of formally identical expressions in Japanese: similes and “metonymical comparisosn”, i.e. literal comparisons that include metonymic relations between elements. Expression like "kujira no you na chiisai me" can be translated into English as "eyes small as whale's", while in Japanese, due to the lack of possessive case...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penggunaan gaya bahasa yang digunakan dalam novel Imperfect karya Meira Anastasia dan sebagai alternatif pembelajaran SMA Kelas XI. Jenis penelitian menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif, dengan sumber data yaitu Meira. Hasil ditemukan sebanyak 8 bahasa, hiperbola, sinisme, simile, repetisi, eufemisme, pleonasme, metafora, personifikasi, temuan ...

The knowledge that is needed to understand everyday language is not necessarily the knowledge one finds in an encyclopedia or dictionary. Much of this is “folk” knowledge, based on stereotypes and culturally-inherited associations that do not hold in all situations, or which may, strictly speaking, be false. We can open a linguistic window onto this knowledge through simile, since explicit simi...

A simile is a figure of speech that directly makes comparison, showing similarities between two different things, e.g. ``Reading papers can be dull sometimes,like watching grass grow". Human writers often interpolate appropriate similes into proper locations the plain text to vivify their writings. However, none existing work has explored neural interpolation, including both locating and genera...

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...

This abstract sketches the approach and the employed means for constructing measures of melodic similarity in our software toolbox SIMILE. For different tasks related to melodic similarity different hybrid algorithms proved to be optimal. The hybrid algorithms consist of several single algorithms mostly known in the literature that are taken together in a linear combination. One special linear ...