This paper describes the usage of Natural Language Processing tools, mostly probabilistic topic modeling, to study semantics (word correlations) in a collection of Persian poems consisting of roughly 18k poems from 30 different poets. For this study, we put a lot of effort in the preprocessing and the development of a large scope lexicon supporting both modern and ancient Persian. In the analys...

Outside the groves of academe few people today read George Crabbe's trenchant rhymed couplets describing the life and landscape of his native Suffolk in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This is a pity because Crabbe is a real original: an unpoetical poet who believed that it was his duty to instruct his readers as accurately as possible about the painful realities ofhuman lif...

muwashshah is a poetic form which originated in andalus (the present-day spain) in the third century after hegira, and much has been said on its first composer, andalusian origin, and definition. while many researchers admit that they are uninformed concerning the causes or the justifying reasons for the emergence of muwashshah, they consider in both old and new books several factors as the maj...

Tang (618-907 AD) and Song (960-1279) dynasties are two very important periods in the development of Chinese literary. The majority forms of the poetry in Tang and Song were Shi (詩) and Ci (詞), respectively. Tang Shi and Song Ci established crucial foundations of the Chinese literature, and their influences in both literary works and daily lives of the Chinese communities last until today. Reco...

Chinese poetry translation is currently dominated by the rhymed translations of represented Xu Yuanchong and unrhymed Weng Xianliang. Both these methods have provided us with valuable practical experience. However, volumes 1 to 3 Xi Jinping: The Governance China, as authoritative interpretations wisdom, plans, theories, contain a large number ancient poems. in English version three volumes, rel...

We apply topic modeling to classifying the genre of Ghazal, a form common in Persian poetry. We show that a classifier based on automatically-generated topics exposes important information with only a small performance penalty: the top discriminative topics can be manually aligned with themes prevalent in the associated genres, as identified by scholars of literature. We also weigh in on a long...