Gnostic prose works cover a wide range of subjects, contents, styles, structures, languages, and manners of expression. They might, therefore, be all categorized under one single literary genre. Applying the general term "gnostic prose works" to these oeuvres hinders our understanding of their true nature. Despite that many gnostic prose works belong to Gnosticism, they have special characteris...

This article explores the application of text normalization methods based on Levenshtein distance and Statistical Machine Translation to the literary genre, specifically on the collected works of August Strindberg. The goal is to normalize archaic spellings to modern day spelling. The study finds evidence of success in text normalization, and explores some problems and improvements to the proce...

A system for classifying audio files according to music genre has been thoroughly evaluated within the MIREX 2005 Audio Description Contest. The system is based on a hierarchical classifier and on automatic feature selection. The results of the contest evaluation are presented here and compared with a previous evaluation performed by the authors.

the short story as a literary genre has always been of prime concern. studies carried out in this field as far as its literary development is concerned, directly reflects the significance of this genre, and conspicuously distinguishes it from others. french literature normally abandons literary boundaries thereby blurring the identity of genres. this style is most peculiar of jean marie gustave...

A t the dawn of the twentyfirst century, young adult literature looks very different than it did fifty years ago. Indeed, fifty years ago, we were just getting started with the likes of Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye (1951), with Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), Zindel’s The Pigman (1968), and Cormier’s The Choco­ late War (1974) still a gleam in the eye of their literary creators. We have a c...

the books written on the world strange items and categories ,may be called as a literary genre, too. they also originate from the people's beliefs, traditions, customs, and culture of a specific region. some of these strange items and categories have been turned into various tales of mysteries. the experts of other fields, such as geography, history, etc. have used them as well. azari toos...

Web-based communities have been an interest of social science researchers since the dawn of the millennium. To date, much research into them has focused on the methods to enhance community building and understand those who do not participate in community life, known as lurkers. This paper explores web-based communities as a type of media, classifying types of web-based community such as message...

This essay deals with the question of the multiple constraints that determine the production of highly commercialized literature, namely, novelization. As a literary genre, novelization is easy to define: it is the novelistic adaptation of an original film or, more specifically, of the screenplay of this film. As a cultural practice, however, novelization is hardly known, given its lack of pres...

Following classical antiquity, European poetic meter was complicated by traditions negotiating between the prosodic stress of vernacular dialects and a classical system based on syllable length. Middle High German (MHG) epic poetry found a solution in a hybrid qualitative and quantitative meter. We develop a CRF model to predict the metrical values of syllables in MHG epic verse, achieving an F...