the holy quran is one of the main fountainheads of hāfiẓ idiolect and thought. hāfiẓs’ sweet poetry is, indeed, intertwined with the good tree of quran. the assumption in the present study is that 183rd sonnet of hafiẓ, beginning with ‘last night at dawn…’ implicitly yet purposefully echoes the story of jonah in the holy quran. when words such as ‘grief’, ‘deliverance’, ‘darkness’, ‘gratificati...

As any computer user employs the Internet to accomplish everyday activities, a flow of data packets moves across the network, forming their own patterns in response to his or her actions. Artists and sound designers who are interested in accessing that data to make music must currently possess low-level knowledge of Internet protocols and spend significant effort working with low-level networki...

The need for natural language generation (NLG) arises in diverse, multimodal contexts: ranging from describing stories captured in a photograph, to instructing how to prepare a dish using a given set of ingredients, and to composing a sonnet for a given topic phrase. One common challenge among these types of NLG tasks is that the generation model often needs to work with relatively loose semant...

We introduce a neural network, known as SONNETMAP, capable of automatic segmentation, learning and retrieval of melodies. SONNET-MAP is a synthesis of the SONNET (Self-Organizing Neural NETwork) architecture (Nigrin, 1993) and an associative map derived from ARTMAP (Carpenter, Grossberg, and Reynolds, 1991). SONNET-MAP automatically segments a melody based on pitch and rhythmic grouping cues. S...

neo-classical sonnet, created out of iran’s classic poetry, is one of the contemporary poetic movements which have always been dynamic. the purpose of its leading poets was to make the traditional form of sonnet attuned with modern requirements. this poetic movement has benefited the poetic possibilities of which free verse has provided for persian poetry in terms of locution, language and lite...

there is no doubt that fantastic whispers and melodies of love terms, which have found its way into sonnet envelope through the body of arabic poetry and literature and drew poets’ attention ever- increasingly and welcomed by them, were followed by a type of verse that was seriously affected by charming and nice odes recited by well-known literary characters at age of jahelid. at the beginning ...