in arabic poetry, the device of repetition functions at two levels: form and meaning. in form, repetition makes for musical richness, and in meaning, it makes for emphasis. the present article is a study of repetition in “an address from the market of idleness” by palestinian poet samä«h al-qäsim. the poem depicts actual and possible palestinian sufferings inflicted by israelis and stresse...

Relationships are an integral part of conceptual database design because they represent associations between entities from the real world. With the proliferation of both traditional, corporate, and now, web-based, databases representing similar entities, comparison of relationships across these databases is increasingly important. The ability to compare and resolve similarities in relationships...

This paper presents and evaluates a phonological phrase parser for a Spanish text-to-speech system. The parser consists of three stages: 1) lexical lookup, using a small dictionary (428 words); 2) preliminary phrase boundary placement, using a modification of Liberman and Church’s (1992) function group parser; and 3) readjustment of phrase boundaries, using syllable count and punctuation. A cor...

A variety of verb phrases exist in Urdu including simple verb phrases, conjunct verb phrases and compound verb phrases. This paper explains the structure of Urdu verb phrases, and details a series of experiment to automatically tag them. Initially, a rule based model is developed using 21 linguistic rules for automatic VP chunking. A 100,000 word Urdu corpus is manually tagged with VP chunk tag...

In this paper a method to incorporate linguistic information regarding single-word and compound verbs is proposed, as a first step towards an SMT model based on linguistically-classified phrases. By substituting these verb structures by the base form of the head verb, we achieve a better statistical word alignment performance, and are able to better estimate the translation model and generalize...