since the end of the cold war era in a u-turn in her foreign policy india has changed from a fighter with imperialism to a close ally of the west. beside political factors, economic factors and above all waves of globalization were among the most influential causes of this u-turn. analysts hold different attitudes towards why such a change happened and whether it was in the interest of india in...

We introduce a corpus of classical Chinese poems that has been word segmented and tagged with parts-ofspeech (POS). Due to the ill-defined concept of a ‘word’ in Chinese, previous Chinese corpora suffer from a lack of standardization in word segmentation, resulting in inconsistencies in POS tags, therefore hindering interoperability among corpora. We address this problem with nested POS tags, w...

Vietnamese American author Thanhha Lai captures the experience and emotions of immersion in another language culture her three books, Inside Out & Back Again (2011), Listen, Slowly (2015), Butterfly Yellow (2019). [...]someone had captured agony learning when living a new country. Through first-person poems, she describes puzzling parts language, challenges making friends with people who look a...

Travellers’ enthusiasm can drive them to explore new locations, especially those that are unknown and foreign their eyes. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf's anthology of poetry, The Art Naming (2006) reflects the people locations played a significant role in crafting her poems. Using flâneur, which is closely related theory psychogeography, we investigate how Faridah, as flâneuse (a female flâneur), wan...

the manifest of value of colors in nazik al-malaika s poemsali piranishal *khadije hashemi**from the early times, colors have played an important role in developing poeticimages, and colorful images are the realistic and sensory aspects among poets. poetshave used colorful words to explore and explain the relationship between poeticimages and sometimes they have used colorful words to express t...

This paper describes the usage of Natural Language Processing tools, mostly probabilistic topic modeling, to study semantics (word correlations) in a collection of Persian poems consisting of roughly 18k poems from 30 different poets. For this study, we put a lot of effort in the preprocessing and the development of a large scope lexicon supporting both modern and ancient Persian. In the analys...

RATIONALE We report a case of successful diagnosis of POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes) syndrome based on monoclonality that was confirmed by an osteosclerotic lesion biopsy in a patient without pathognomonic symptoms or monoclonal gammopathy, probably because of comorbidities, which included systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid ar...