Studies on English verses have claimed that the position in which a pause is inserted has a great effect on determining their rhythm. The position in which a pause appears follows a certain rule for the verses to be ‘rhythmic’, however, it is not yet obvious whether Japanese Haiku also has such tendencies or preferences. In this paper, we analysed and compared the metrical structure of English ...

C. P. Brown was the first to collect the palm-leaf manuscripts of Vemana's verses from different centres. He collected about 2500 verses and published some of them with English translation. A number of edition> with ver ses ranging from 100 to 5000 were brought forth by different editors/publishers. It is therefore difficult to establish the authenticity of these verses. The possibility of attr...

This work aims to study the narrative structure of Basque greeting verses from a text classification approach. We propose a set of thematic categories for the correct classification of verses, and then, use those categories to analyse the verses based on Machine Learning techniques. Classification methods such as Naive Bayes, kNN, Support Vector Machines and Decision Tree Learner have been sele...

The science of versification and analysis of verse in Sanskrit is governed by rules of metre or chandas. Such metre-wise classification of verses has numerous uses for scholars and researchers alike, such as in the study of poets and their style of Sanskrit poetical works. This paper presents a comprehensive computational scheme and set of algorithms to identify the metre of verses given as San...

We present work on a verse-composition assistant for composing, checking correctness of, and singing traditional Basque bertsoak—impromptu verses on particular themes. A performing bertsolari—a verse singer in the Basque Country—must adhere to strict rules that dictate the format and content of the verses sung. To help the aspiring bertsolari, we provide a tool that includes a web interface tha...

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

Three cases are presented to compare and contrast the radiographic findings in hydropneumothorax versus simple pleural effusion. The first case is of a 72-year-old man with metastatic colon cancer presenting with worsening shortness of breath. Post-thoracentesis chest radiographs (Fig 1) and CT (Fig 2) demonstrate a hydropneumothorax. The second case is of a 67 year-old male with non-small cell...