This paper presents experiments with the evaluation of automatically produced summaries of literary short stories. The summaries are tailored to a particular purpose of helping a reader decide whether she wants to read the story. The evaluation procedure includes extrinsic and intrinsic measures, as well as subjective and factual judgments about the summaries pronounced by human subjects. The e...

The presence of emotional words and content in stories has been shown to enhance a story's memorability, and its cultural success. Yet, recent cultural trends run in the opposite direction. Using the Google Books corpus, coupled with two metadata-rich corpora of Anglophone fiction books, we show a decrease in emotionality in English-speaking literature starting plausibly in the nineteenth centu...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC) which comp...

While formalism and structuralism became key concepts in linguistics, literary criticism, and the social sciences during the first half of the twentieth century, they appeared in folklore research only in the late fifties and early sixties, as a direct result of the publication of Claude Lévi-Strauss' "The Structural Study of Myth" ( Journal of American Folklore, 68 [1955], 428-444) and the 195...

The impact of Greece is typified by the hyperbole of Sir Henry Main: “Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.” Including the adoption of Egyptian and other earlier cultures by the Greeks, we find their patrimony in all phases of modern life. Handicrafts, mining techniques, engineering, trade, governmental regulation of commerce and more h...

This study determined the effectiveness of Digital Storytelling (DST) in teaching literature to grade 11 students Cantapoy National High School, Malimono, Surigao del Norte. Specifically, level literary competence during pre-test and posttest terms comprehension appreciation three (3) different genres was assessed determine educational value DST. Furthermore, it also significant difference stud...

Literary genre “maqtal” came to literature from the arabs. Then it passed persians, and then Turkish literature. During time of prophet after him, wars their tragedies were called as "maqtal." The arabic word maqtal means "the place where a person is killed when he killed." XIV century specimens are richer than this one gives some materials for research. An acquaintance with Yusuf Maddah's masn...

arabic prose passed during its development through different stages; and arabic literature in general was a pad of the types of literary that emerged for it in the present era in the field of principles and rules. some believe that the literary genres and systems prose are taken from the west. while if we look closely, we find models of them in the old arab literature, though contemporary men o...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC), which co...

N-gram measures of translation quality, such as BLEU and the related NIST metric, are becoming increasingly important in machine translation, yet their behaviors are not fully understood. In this paper we examine the performance of these metrics on professional human translations into German of two literary genres, the Bible and Tom Sawyer. The most surprising result is that some machine transl...