Czech Verse Processing System KVĚTA – Phonetic and Metrical Components

Plecháč, Petr

doi:10.1515/glot-2016-0013

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“…Our research uses five metrically annotated poetry collections in normalized orthography, each of which concerns one language tradition: Czech [ 52 , 53 ], Dutch [ 54 ], English [ 55 ], German [ 56 , 57 ] and Russian [ 58 , 59 ]. These collections have disparate sources and vary in size, chronological scope, general composition principles and survivorship bias (the Russian corpus, for example, favors poems that were reprinted in 20th-century scholarly editions).…”

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Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

2022

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Recent advances in cultural analytics and large-scale computational studies of art, literature and film often show that long-term change in the features of artistic works happens gradually. These findings suggest that conservative forces that shape creative domains might be underestimated. To this end, we provide the first large-scale formal evidence of the association between poetic meter and semantics in 18-19th century European literatures, using Czech, German and Russian collections with additional data from English poetry and early modern Dutch songs. Our study traces this association through a series of unsupervised classifications using the abstracted semantic features of poems that are inferred for individual texts with the aid of topic modeling. Topics alone enable recognition of the meters in each observed language, as may be seen from the same-meter samples clustering together (median Adjusted Rand Index between 0.48 and 1 across traditions). In addition, this study shows that the strength of the association between form and meaning tends to decrease over time. This may reflect a shift in aesthetic conventions between the 18th and 19th centuries as individual innovation was increasingly favored in literature. Despite this decline, it remains possible to recognize semantics of the meters from past or future, which suggests the continuity in meter-meaning relationships while also revealing the historical variability of conditions across languages. This paper argues that distinct metrical forms, which are often copied in a language over centuries, also maintain long-term semantic inertia in poetry. Our findings highlight the role of the formal features of cultural items in influencing the pace and shape of cultural evolution.

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Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

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“…Lemmatisation and POS-tagging were performed using the MorphoDiTa tagger (Straková et al 2014). Metrical recognition was achieved via the metrical tagger KVĚTA (Plecháč 2016).…”

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Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling

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Kolář

2022

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The article deals with the relationship between semantics and poetic meter in the works of Czech post-symbolist poets and their predecessors. We access the phenomena by means of a machine-driven meter recognition on one hand and LDA topic modelling on the other. We first show how the poetic groups differ in their general preferences for particular topics. Next we analyze the topic distributions in two dominant metres (i.e. iamb and trochee) across the poetic groups.

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“…Metre and stress annotation -Based on manually annotated samples, the accuracy of metrical recognition in the CS corpus was estimated at 0.95 (Plecháč 2016). -Navarro-Colorado (2017) extracted a random sample of 100 sonnets from the ES corpus, and this was manually annotated by three subjects.…”

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“…tested the performance of versification-based attribution on three corpora of poetic texts: The Corpus of Czech Verse(Plecháč 2016;Plecháč and Kolár 2015), Metricalizer-the corpus of German Verse(Bobenhausen and Hammerich 2015;Bobenhausen 2011) and the Spanish-language Corpus de Sonetos del Siglo de Oro (Navarro-Colorado, Ribes-Lafoz and Sánchez 2016; Navarro-Colorado 2015). For simplicity, these are denoted as CS, DE and ES respectively.The general characteristics of these corpora are given inTAB.…”

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Versification and Authorship Attribution

Plecháč¹,

Šeļa²

2021

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The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem’s author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse. Using poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plecháč asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests its findings on two unsolved literary mysteries. In the first, Plecháč distinguishes the parts of the Elizabethan verse play The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Shakespeare from those written by his coauthor, John Fletcher. In the second, he seeks to solve a case of suspected forgery: how authentic was a group of poems first published as the work of the nineteenth-century Russian author Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov? This book of poetic investigation should appeal to literary sleuths the world over.

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Czech Verse Processing System KVĚTA – Phonetic and Metrical Components

Abstract: The following paper describes the algorithms of phonetic and metrical components of the Czech verse processing system KVĚTA, updating information contained in previous reports (

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Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling

Versification and Authorship Attribution

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