This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

WASP is a forward reasoning rule-based system that takes as input data a set of words and a set of verse patterns and returns a set of verses. Using a generate and test method, guided by a set of construction heuristics obtained from formal literature on Spanish poetry, the system can operate in two modes: either generating an unrestricted set of verses, or generating a poem according to one of...

Text similarity measures have been widely studied and used in machine learning and information retrieval for many years. However, few applications of text similarity have dealt with multi-lingual translations of a specific document. Additionally, the growing number of texts with more translations being generated increases the challenge of distinguishing or identifying the similarity and differe...

Introduction At higher static field strengths of 7T and above specific absorption rate (SAR) and acoustic sound pressure level (SPL) pose limitations on the pulse sequence design. To overcome SAR limitations, the VERSE principle can be used [1]. Here, the envelope of existing rf pulses are modified together with the shape of the slice-selection gradient to selectively reduce high B1 amplitudes ...

This paper presents a pilot study in the "epidemiological" program for cultural research put forward by Dan Sperber. Theory is offered to argue that verse form is so disabling that its worldwide distribution must be explained by functions other than the broad communicative, or ideological, power traditionally attributed to it. The theoretical case is confirmed by numerical data showing that in ...

The Variable-Rate Selective Excitation (VERSE) technique is shown to improve image quality by reducing fast spin echo spacing and improving slice profile. An algorithm was developed to use VERSE waveform reshaping to minimize echo spacing given specific prescription parameters and system constraints and was implemented for an SSFSE sequence to create shorter RF pulses with higher time•bandwidth...

The objective of this study was to investigate the synchronization between low-frequency breathing patterns and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) of heart rate during guided recitation of poetry, i.e., recitation of hexameter verse from ancient Greek literature performed in a therapeutic setting. Twenty healthy volunteers performed three different types of exercises with respect to a cross-sec...

Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab took the verses revealed to speak about the blasphemers and applied them to the Muslims. This verse means: [Who is more astray than the one who performs supplication (du'a') to [worship] other than Allah; the one other than Allah he supplicates to will not answer his du'a'.]

The previous chapters have been devoted to the development of the modern grammar which is the main concern of this study. The grammar (as well as the five subgrammars) is modern in the sense that it captures the modern speaker’s scansion of classical Chinese verse. At the same time, the apparent ancient nature of the corpus implies the relevance of a historical dimension of the issue, which wil...

Philologist: I need to parse Old French texts of different types (verse, prose, dialects etc.). Do I have to train separate parser models? Computational Linguist: You won’t lose much if you train the parser on all the data you have. P: I can’t do the training myself. What can I expect from existing parser models? C: If the training corpus contained 12th century verse texts, you are best prepare...