The Corpus of Czech Verse

Plecháč, Petr; Kolář, Robert

doi:10.12697/smp.2015.2.1.05

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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

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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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“…All the collections in our study were metrically pre-annotated on a line-by-line basis using language-specific rule-based algorithms [ 52 , 57 , 58 , 60 ] or manual methods [ 54 ]. Since in all five traditions the dominant versification system is accentual-syllabic, all prosodic patterns and verse organization principles are comparable.…”

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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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“…Poetry" now has 65 members: https://plottingpoetry.wordpress.com) develop precise methods to fit their own research goals, without having a neat tool to share with the wider community. To mention but a few, Valérie Beaudouin's Métromètre [Beaudouin 2002], Eliane Delente and Richard Renault's Malherbe [Delente and Renault 2015] or Benoît Brard and Stéphane Ferrari's work for French [Brard and Ferrari 2015], Klemens Bobenhausen's Metricalizer for German [Bobenhausen 2015], Daniele Fusi's Chiron for Latin and Ancient Greek [Fusi 2015], more recently the Postdata project's Anja, Skas and Disco for Spanish [Martínez Cantón et al 2017], Arto Anttila and Ryan Heuser [Anttila and Heuser 2016] for English and Finnish, Petr Plecháč and Robert Kolár's versologie tools [Plecháč and Kolár 2017], Igor Pilshchikov and Anatoli Starostinor's [Pilshchikov and Starostinor 2015] or David Birnbaum and Elise Thorsen's works [Birnbaum and Thorsen 2015] for Russian, all automatically analyze various components of verse. Further efforts towards interoperability are made, and one must salute the teams who provide well-thought web ontologies focused on versification phenomena, such as the Postdata project.…”

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Anatomy of tools: A closer look at “textual DH” methodologies

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2022

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Tool criticism has made us aware that the digital tools widely distributed in Digital Humanities have the power to reify. Therefore, the community needs a handle for gauging their validity, and a capacity for producing plausibility. But tools are not ‘just tools.’ The current panorama in Digital Literary Studies (DLS) presents a plethora of instruments, protocols and practices for processing, analyzing and visualizing data. On a general level, all of these are used to examine aspects of ‘literature’ by ways of digital representation and transformation, but a closer look reveals that the methodological ‘heirdom’ of DLS is a precarious patchwork.With this paper, it is our aim to instigate an explicit and detailed discussion about particular limitations – as well as potentials – of tools and methods in concrete scenarios of application. Taking up the current discussion around tools and research questions, our paper presents the gist from the ADHO SIG-DLS workshop “Anatomy of tools: A closer look at textual DH methodologies” that took place in Utrecht in July 2019.Having identified Textométrie, Stylometry, and Semantic Text Mining as three central types of ‘doing DLS’, we ask: What are our tools and methods-in-use? What are the implications of using a tool-oriented perspective as opposed to a methodology-oriented one? How do either relate to research questions and theory? With an eye to the imminent issue of replicability in DH, we enquire about the range of its potential incarnations in DLS. Addressing tool-adaption to specific research domains, we discuss one of these: poetry. And finally, we present one attempt at a practical solution for handling and gauging tools/methods in DLS, the SIG-DLS Tool Inventory, which may provide both a perspective of orientation and constructive criticism. The article reflects thus a rich array of perspectives on ‘tool criticism,’ including the complementary perspective of ‘tool defense’ – arguing that we need tools and methods as a basic common ground on how to carry out fundamental operations of analysis and interpretation within a community.

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“…Érdemes megemlíteni a Cseh Tudományos Akadémia által fejlesztett Cseh verskorpuszt (Korpus českého verše) is, amely közel 80 000 annotált verset tartalmaz a 19. századból és a 20. század elejéről. 9 A korpusz a szavak lemmája, szófaja, morfológiai és fonológiai jellemzői mellett a ritmusra és a rímekre vonatkozó automatikusan létrehozott annotációkat is tartalmaz. 10 A korpusz honlapján számos lekérdező eszközből választhatunk.…”

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A vershangzás jellemzőinek automatikus feltárása József Attila verseiben

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2020

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A tanulmány József Attila versei alapján mutatja be a vershangzáshoz kapcsolódó tulajdonságok automatikus feltárásának egy módszerét. A tanulmány első fele ismerteti a vershangzás jellemzőinek automatikus annotálására létrehozott hunpoem_analyzer-TEI program funkcióit, valamint az annotációs folyamat főbb lépéseit. A tanulmány második fele különböző, az elemzett korpuszból kinyert, a versek lexikai tulajdonságaihoz és a vershangzás jellemzőihez kapcsolódó gyakorisági listákat mutat be.

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The Corpus of Czech Verse

Cited by 9 publications

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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

Anatomy of tools: A closer look at “textual DH” methodologies

A vershangzás jellemzőinek automatikus feltárása József Attila verseiben

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