Poetry is rarely a focus of linguistic investigation. This is far from surprising, as poetic language, especially in modern and contemporary literature, seems to defy the general rules of syntax and semantics. This paper assumes, however, that linguistic theories should ideally be able to account for creative uses of language, down to their most difficult incarnations. It proposes that at the s...

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...

This study examined how emergent features, which are made salient in the interpretation of metaphor, are related to metaphor appreciation. According to an incongruity resolution model of poetic appreciation, the role of emergent features in metaphor appreciation is predicted to facilitate poetic appreciation by constituting a richer interpretation when topic–vehicle similarity is lower. Two exp...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

creativeness / a pleasing field / of bloom Word associations are an important element of linguistic creativity. Traditional lexical knowledge bases such as WordNet formalize a limited set of systematic relations among words, such as synonymy, polysemy and hypernymy. Such relations maintain their systematicity when composed into lexical chains. We claim that such relations cannot explain the typ...

so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clu...

sorrow is one of the poetic subjects which is frequent since the ignorance period through elegiac poems which are full of kindness and sad motions. but since the recent & new era in particular since he romanticism era it gains progress in such a way that it does not only appear through the poetic couplets which illustrate an experience of poetic elegical sense, but also it becomes of potential ...

My PhD research has been on the algorithmic and formal aspects of computational linguistics, esp. in the areas of parsing and machine translation. I am interested in developing efficient algorithms for formalisms with rich expressive power, so that we can have a better modeling of human languages without sacrificing efficiency. In doing so, I hope to help integrating more linguistic and structu...

If we consider the creative processes artists go through in making a work of art, is there a way to model these processes and "re-embody" them within computer mediated interactive environments? Computers present an artistic medium which heightens the potential for an intermingling of the knowledge of the viewer with the "re-embodied intelligence" of an author. Given that computers can house "re...