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Methods of the Diachronic Analysis of Author’s Proverbs of the Russian Language: the Possibility of Application

open access: yesVestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 2019
The purpose of the article is to present the author's method of the diachronic analysis of author's proverbs of the Russian language and the possibilities of its practical application on the example of the analysis of the author's proverb Don't get in ...
Artur V. Zagrebelnyy
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Are Multilingual LLMs Culturally-Diverse Reasoners? An Investigation into Multicultural Proverbs and Sayings [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) are highly adept at question answering and reasoning tasks, but when reasoning in a situational context, human expectations vary depending on the relevant cultural common ground. As languages are associated with diverse cultures, LLMs should also be culturally-diverse reasoners.
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PROVERBS ABOUT PROVERBS. WRITERS' VIEWS ON PROVERBS

open access: yes, 2023
Since ancient times, proverbs have been considered an inexhaustible source of wisdom. In it, as in a grain, lies all the active forces of democratic culture. And is it not for this reason, as if checking the very direction of their own work with proverbs, all great people revered the wisdom and beauty, the picturesque, inventive power of proverbs ...
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ePiC: Employing Proverbs in Context as a Benchmark for Abstract Language Understanding [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
While large language models have shown exciting progress on several NLP benchmarks, evaluating their ability for complex analogical reasoning remains under-explored. Here, we introduce a high-quality crowdsourced dataset of narratives for employing proverbs in context as a benchmark for abstract language understanding. The dataset provides fine-grained
arxiv  

“The Tallest Man Cannot Reach Heaven; the Broadest Man Cannot Cover Earth” – Reconsidering the Proverb and its Biblical Parallels

open access: yesJournal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2011
An ancient Mesopotamian proverb states: "even the tallest man cannot reach heaven; even the broadest man cannot cover earth". This proverb, occurring in different contexts, periods and versions, expresses the limitedness of the human ability, physically ...
Nili Samet
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Minangkabau Proverb: Stimulating High School Students’ Critical Thinking and Spatial Thinking

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society, 2019
Critical thinking and spatial thinking need to be developed by utilizing local wisdom, one of which isusing proverb. This research aims to describe and explain the forms of critical thinking andspatial thinking is found in Minangkabau proverb and ...
Silvia Marni   +3 more
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Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little quantitative work on changes in the frequency with which they are used over time. With wider availability of large corpora reflecting many diverse genres of documents, it is now possible
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Idioms-Proverbs Lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Sentiment Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Applications 118(11):26-31, May 2015, 2015
Although, the fair amount of works in sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM) systems in the last decade and with respect to the performance of these systems, but it still not desired performance, especially for morphologically-Rich Language (MRL) such as Arabic, due to the complexities and challenges exist in the nature of the languages itself.
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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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“A NIGHTINGALE CANNOT SING IN A CAGE” – OR CAN IT?

open access: yesProverbium, 2021
The international proverb “A nightingale (or other bird) cannot (does not, will not) sing in a cage” is several centuries old—prevalent in English since the eighteenth century—though rebuttals or exceptions to the proverb, both popular and “scientific,”
Chlarles Clay Doyle
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