WebFridge is a RESTful architecture for supporting online social poetry. Its design is intended to function as a backend service providing "fridge poetry"-related resources to power social poetry widgets and applets. I lay out one possible architecture, designed to provide multiple and shareable fridge instances, multiple vocabulary sets, and ownership/permissions.

Poetry Machine Translator is problematic area challenging. It is very important that output of poetry translation should still be poetry. Thai Poetry is composed with sets of syllables. Those rhymes, existing from stanzas, lines and the text in paragraph of the poetry, may not represent the complete syntax. Evaluation of translation will show the quality of translator but Evaluation is still a ...

Using a next-generation architecture technology that Intel and Hewlett-Packard call EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing), Merced and future EPIC processors threaten the performance lead held today by RISC processors. EPIC is not entirely new, borrowing many of its ideas from previous RISC and VLIW designs as well as from recent academic research. EPIC has an inherent performance adv...

Artworks with sad and affectively negative content have repeatedly been reported to elicit positive aesthetic appreciation. This topic has received much attention both in the history of poetics and aesthetics as well as in recent studies on sad films and sad music. However, poetry and aesthetic evaluations of joyful and sad poetry have received only little attention in empirical studies to date...

This article explores the central antagonisms at work within Alī nāma of Rabīʿ, a fifth/eleventh-century Persian epic by Twelver Shīʿī poet narrating deeds ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, in particular battles Camel and Ṣiffīn. It gives an analysis this poem its twin contexts imamology poetry, illustrating how these fields are variously drawn upon, combined challenged poem’s unique narrative imam, arguing t...

Drawing on the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and evolutionary biology, this contribution revisits meaning Homeric formula ὑπόδρα ἰδών, literally ‘looking from below’, which is generally acknowledged as an indication anger in epic poetry. A detailed examination phrase suggests that facial expression it refers to was originally inclination head while maintaining a fixed gaze ahead, result...

Metaphor is indispensable in poetry. It showcases the poet’s creativity, and contributes to the overall emotional pertinence of the poem while honing its specific rhetorical impact. Previous work on metaphor detection relies on either rulebased or statistical models, none of them applied to poetry. Our method focuses on metaphor detection in a poetry corpus. It combines rule-based and statistic...

The analysis of sound and sonic devices in poetry is the focus of much poetic scholarship, and poetry scholars are becoming increasingly interested in the role that computation might play in their research. Since the nature of such sonic analysis is unique, the associated tasks are not supported by standard text analysis techniques. We introduce a formalism for analyzing sonic devices in poetry...

This article reports an investigation of the attitudes and opinions of children’s librarians towards poetry, and towards its promotion in the public library. It also reports some attitudes towards literature promotion to young people in general. A series of structured interviews with library professionals currently working in the public sector strongly indicate that children’s librarians are th...

Sign language poetry is the ultimate form of aesthetic signing, in which the form of language used is as important as or even more important than the message. Like so much poetry in any language, sign language poetry is a means of expressing ideas unusually succinctly, through means of heightened "art" language. It uses specific language devices to maximise the significance of the poem, just as...