This paper describes a methodology for automatically identifying proverbs and their variants in running texts. This methodology is based on existing compilations of proverbs, by exploring the regular syntactic structures that most proverbs present and intersecting syntactic structure with the lexical units of the proverbs. From the syntactic regularities we divided the data into 13 different cl...

A well-worn French proverb pronounces ‘ tout comprendre c’est pardonner’ (‘to understand all is to forgive all’). Is forgiveness the inevitable consequence of social scientific understanding actions and lives perpetrators serious wrongdoing? Do explanations provide excuses or justifications for that purport explain? In this essay, I seek clarification these intertwined explanatory moral questio...

The beauty of Malay proverbs can not only be seen through the use poetic language but also common sense. A beautiful proverb with a deep meaning is result community's high appreciation and sense towards environment that underlies life. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify elephant -based domain in based on corpus data obtained book Proverbs: Study Meaning Value written by Zaitul Azma...

Although the Victorian proverb ‘‘everything in its place and a place for everything’’ is meant for orderly households, it could just as easily describe the organization of eukaryotic genomes. This issue’s Select profiles articles that reveal new insights into how DNA is packaged and partitioned into three-dimensional (3D) structures throughout the life of a cell, shedding new light on how inter...

A group of high school students attended 7 educational sessions for a preventive drug abuse program. The students were exposed to drug abusers and their families. Drug abusers and their families informed the subjects about the consequences of addiction in their life: how they became addicted and how the addiction worsened their psychosocial life. Moreover their families explained to student...