Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximate...

Knowledge extraction from unstructured data is a challenging research problem in research domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It requires complex NLP tasks like entity extraction and Information Extraction (IE), but one of the most challenging tasks is to extract all the required entities of data in the form of structured format so that data analysis can be applied. Our focus is to exp...

the literary approach to quranic interpretations is founded on words, morphology, syntax and rhetoric. however, contemporary literary school, in addition to these principles, takes into account other principles like authenticating solely the literary understanding. comparing sayyid murtazā's literary approach with the principles and ideas of sheikh tusi in al-tibyan reveals various aspects...

OBJECTIVES To document biomedical paper titles containing literary and other allusions. DESIGN Retrospective survey. SETTING Medline (1951 to mid-2005) through Dialog Datastar. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Allusions to Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, proverbs, the Bible, Lewis Carroll, and movie titles, corrected and scaled for five year periods 1950-4 to 2000-4. RESULTS More than 1400 Sh...

We present here a method for automatically discovering several classes of text reuse across different languages, from the most similar (translations) to the most oblique (literary allusions). Allusions are an important subclass of reuse because they involve the appropriation of isolated words and phrases within otherwise unrelated sentences, so that traditional methods of identifying reuse incl...

Problem statement: The needs of computer forensics investigators have been directly influenced by the increasing number of crimes performed using computers. It is the responsibility of the investigator to ascertain the authenticity of the collected digital evidence. Without proper classification of digital evidence, the computer forensics investigator may ended up investigating using untrusted ...

this article examines lord byron’s allusions to persian literature, history, culture and its ancient religion. the influence of persia on byron is considerable. byron was greatly influenced by orientalists such as sir william jones and their translations of eastern literatures. after examining byron’s allusions to persia, one realizes that byron’s attitude with regard to persia appears to be am...