Humans tend to organize perceived information into hierarchies and structures, a principle that also applies to music. Even musically untrained listeners unconsciously analyze and segment music with regard to various musical aspects, for example, identifying recurrent themes or detecting temporal boundaries between contrasting musical parts. This paper gives an overview of state-of-theart metho...

three decades is moving forward and the Discussion Forum will open on 28 October. I encourage as many of you as possible to participate in the conference as audience and as commentators. Meanwhile we are working on the programme for the next couple of years. The following themes are being discussed. Leaders have been identified in some cases; the leading team may evolve. Those below are general...

the present article surveys the personality and the life of mohammad maghout and studies and analyzes the play of the hunchback sparrow in regards to the form and content. mohammad maghout is one of the most prominent poets and writers from syria in the temporary century. such a personality is worth to be studied through his works to understand his concerns and thoughts.

Collective social and behavioral information commonly exists in nature. There is a widespread intuitive sense that the characteristics of these social and behavioral information are to some extend related to the themes (or semantics) of the activities or targets. In this paper, we explicitly validate the interplay of collective social behavioral information and group themes using a large scale ...

The paper describes a system which determines continuity and shifts in English texts on the basis of sentential themes. The theme object within the thematic component of a sentence is determined and a search is made to associate it with a frame shared with the previous theme or themes. If the theme object cannot be associated directly with one of these frames, interpretive rules are ~pplied to ...

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