Research Applications of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric
This page lists research projects and publications that make substantive methodological use of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric, its taxonomy, or its operational definitions of rhetorical devices.
Operational Applications
Research tools, procedures, or systems in which definitions, categories, or structures from the Encyclopedia are operationalised for annotation, identification, classification, coding, or other systematic analysis.
BALAGHA Score
The BALAGHA Score, a numeric scoring system for quantifying the density of rhetorical devices in Arabic texts. It uses the Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy enable the systematic annotation and analysis of rhetorical devices across texts and datasets.
AraMIP: Arabic Metaphor Identification Procedure
The Metaphor, Simile, and Implicit Reference (Kināyah) definitions developed in the Encyclopedia are operationalised in the Arabic Metaphor Identification Procedure (AraMIP), a two-stage procedure for identifying and annotating metaphor and related figurative phenomena in Arabic text.[1]
Empirical Applications
Research resources and studies in which the Encyclopedia's taxonomy is used to annotate corpora, quantify rhetorical phenomena, compare texts, or generate empirical findings.
The Balagha Corpus
The Balagha Corpus is a corpus developed for the systematic annotation and quantitative analysis of rhetorical devices using the Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy and its associated coding system.
Extensions and Evaluations
Research which evaluates, validates, extends, modifies, or systematically maps the Encyclopedia's taxonomy or its underlying analytical framework.
Pending.
See also
References
- ↑ Mandar Marathe, Manar Ali, Sara Nabhani, Raia Abu Ahmad, Ibrahim Baroud, Omar Abdelmomen Amin Hassan, ‘AraMIP: Extending MIPVU Towards Metaphor Identification in Arabic’, Forthcoming in Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2026).
