Due to differences in form, style and culture between the original and the translated version of ancient Chinese poetry, the meaning of translated ancient Chinese poems is bound to differ from that of the originals. Therefore, to certain extent some ancient Chinese poems can never be completely translated; but it is possible that they can be better translated so that the reader of the translate...

In this paper we describe the difficulties of poetry generation, particularly in contrast to traditional informative natural language generation. We then point out deficiencies of previous attempts at poetry generation, and propose a stochastic hillclimbing search model which addresses these deficiencies. We present both conceptual and implemented details of the most important aspects of such a...

Many years ago I received an urgent Friday afternoon consult from the surgery service. ‘‘Incipient DTs,’’ the resident told me. ‘‘We’ve got this guy, status-post pancreatitis, post-op cholecystectomy, he’s going down the tube.’’ It turned out that the patient was an irascible middle-aged man named Chuck Benderton who a day or so after surgery had gotten agitated and started to swear at his doct...

We present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of poetry(and text) style which makes use of NLP tools like tokenizers, sentence splitters, NER (Name Entity Recognition) tools, and taggers. Our system in addition to the tools listed above which aim at obtaining the same results of quantitative linguistics, adds a number of additional tools for syntactic and semantic structural analysis ...

The ultimate goal of the poetry assistant currently under development in our lab is an application to be used either as a poetry game or as a teaching tool for both poetry and grammar, including the complex relationships between sound and meaning. Until now we focused on the automatic classification of poems and the suggestion of the ending word for a verse. The classification module is based o...

traditionalists of european literature in the sixteenth century ad, were trying to restore that literary heritage due to technical and human theme of the ancient greek literature since modernists began to confront the traditionalists by the the end of the seventeenth century and invited them to avoid old formats and to define literature and poetry in another way. since then, persian and arabic ...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

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...

This research investigated the significance of poetry in the acquisition of English as a second language for social work students at the undergraduate level. The study highlights the fact that poetry can expand the teaching options of the teacher of EFL, as reflected in the overall satisfaction of the students with this mode of language acquisition and the quantitative and qualitative effects r...