Recently, several music information retrieval (MIR) systems have been developed which retrieve musical pieces by the user’s singing voice. All of these systems use only the melody information for retrieval. Although the lyrics information is useful for retrieval, there have been few attempts to exploit lyrics in the user’s input. In order to develop a MIR system that uses lyrics and melody info...

This paper tries to examine literature as history, with an emphasis on the crucial role of fiction in narrating the marginalized events of history. Some fictions are actual accounts of events in history, and some are reflection of events. Actually, literature and history are integrated to each other, in a way that, pure history which shows us the reality and truth is just a myth. The pens writi...

the writer and professor abdulaziz almaqaleh is considered one of the most contemporary writers of and outside yemen and especially in the field of poetry and literary criticism and teaching university but he also has other literary works and intellectual and political writings and has columns in newspapers and magazines in yemen and other arab countries. he also sang a verse of poetry in vario...

Temporal dependencies reveal interesting insights into the semantic discourse structure of narrative texts. The investigations of literary scientists are, as of today, mostly based on labor-intensive manual annotations. Computational Narratology, an important subtopic of the Digital Humanities, aims at facilitating annotations and supporting literary scientists with their analyses. According to...

Deixis is important to help the listener or addressee distinguish between what speaker says and intended. It possible that might misinterpret a reference in vague utterance. The meaning of sentence utterance becomes understandable if knows who, when, where it spoken. In this study, researcher examines types deixis used Halsey's songwriting lyrics. study involves qualitative data analysis. are o...

Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and score...