This paper investigates a novel statistical approach to music classification that utilizes recent technology developed in the domain of natural language processing. Specifically, we investigate the use of factored language models (FLMs) for the task of producing conditional probability distributions to model origin-specific folk songs. In our model, pitch cluster and quantized duration are empl...

this paper aims not to study sadra’s viewpoint on the language of qur’an but aims to offer sadra’s division of and criticisms on the different approaches to the language of qur’an. therefore, this study has been conducted on the negative dimension and has a critical attitude and is not going to study on the positive dimension and to explain sadra’s viewpoint; although recognition of this negati...

There are a number of expressions in Swedish and other languages, which describe the songs of different birds, e.g. the rose finch imitated as saying "Pleased to see you". These folk rhymes seem to both imitate the birds' songs and to describe some content connected to the bird. Swedish folk rhymes for the songs of different birds were analyzed in terms of sound structure and content. Imitation...

As a medical domain knowledge base, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) focuses on formal and professional medical terms; online health forums contain user-generated “folk terms”, which can be used to complement the UMLS vocabulary. In this paper, we propose an approach to detecting folk terms from online discussions and matching their meanings to UMLS concepts. This approach makes conne...

BACKGROUND Folk names of plants are the root of traditional plant biodiversity knowledge. In pace with social change and economic development, Mongolian knowledge concerning plant diversity is gradually vanishing. Collection and analysis of Mongolian folk names of plants is extremely important. During 2008 to 2012, the authors have been to the Arhorchin National Nature Reserve area 5 times. Fie...