The BALAGHA Score: A Digital Humanities Approach to Assessing Arabic Rhetoric (PDF Slide deck)
<p dir="ltr">This PDF slide deck accompanied a paper presented at <a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/digital-humanities-pathways-future" target="_blank">Pathways to the Future: A Digital Humanities Conference</a>, held at SOAS University of Lo...
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| Summary: | <p dir="ltr">This PDF slide deck accompanied a paper presented at <a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/digital-humanities-pathways-future" target="_blank">Pathways to the Future: A Digital Humanities Conference</a>, held at SOAS University of London, London, UK, 7 March 2025, and organised by SOAS University of London and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.</p><p dir="ltr">The paper introduced a novel quantitative linguistics metric called "Rhetorical Density" for quantifying the rhetoricity of texts in any language. Rhetorical Density (or Rhetoric Density) is defined as the number of rhetorical devices in a text, divided by the word count of the text, multiplied by 100. The abstract and oral presentation also proposed a framework called the BALAGHA Score for measuring the Rhetorical Density of Arabic texts in particular.</p><p dir="ltr">This abstract is part of the ongoing <a href="https://balaghascore.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">BALAGHA Score</a> project, which includes online tools, corpus development, and a forthcoming full manuscript.</p><p dir="ltr">For project resources, visit:</p><ul><li><a href="https://al-balagha.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://al-Balagha.com</a> (Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric)</li><li><a href="https://balaghascore.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://BalaghaScore.com</a> (Main project website with online tools)</li><li><a href="https://balagha-corpus.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://Balagha-Corpus.com</a> (Arabic texts annotated with rhetorical devices)</li></ul><p dir="ltr">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29452679" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">10.6084/m9.figshare.29452679</a></p> |
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