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Mon Feb 04 2008

Disc: Automatical Metrical Markup

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Message 1: Automatical Metrical Markup
Date: 01-Feb-2008
From: Klemens Bobenhausen <klemens.bobenhausengermanistik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Automatical Metrical Markup
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All,

Automatic metrical markup (AMM) of written (not spoken) poetry means to
reach a 100% computer based analysis of the metrical information of a poem,
beginning with identifying poems (not yet reached), strophes, verse lines,
words, syllables and ending with distinction of pronounced (+) and
unpronounced (-) syllables and rhyme-schemata and putting all these
analysis in an XML-document (TEI P5 compatible).

Strophe 1:
Silbenzerlegung:
(Fried|lich) (be|käm|pfen)
(Nacht) (sich) (und) (Tag) .
(Wie) (das) (zu) (däm|pfen) ,
(Wie) (das) (zu) (lö|sen) (ver|mag) !
Metrik:
Silben=5, Betonung=''+--+-''
Silben=4, Betonung=''+--+''
Silben=5, Betonung=''+--+-''
Silben=7, Betonung=''+--+--+''
Reim:
Endreim=''abab'' (Kreuzreim)

After I collected lots of prosodic forecasts of the German written
language, I'm now able to analyse regular poems (with a regular row of
pronounced and unpronounced syllables for each verse/strophe) in about 100%
- and irregular poems (with an irregular row of pronounced and unpronounced
syllables for each verse/strophe) in about 98% of their syllables. The
amount of percents is a set of syllables

a) defined over pronounced syllables (60%)
b) defined over euphonic rules (25%)
c) defined over analogies to other verses (7%)
d) defined over unpronounced syllables (5%)
e) defined over rhymes (1%)

I'm not using any kind of POS or morphological tagging, because the system
should work also with historical texts and their orthography. The missing
2% are coming from foreign or non-Germanic words (like 'Musik' or 'Natur')
and compounds, which in German language are mostly pronounced on the part
of the compound which describes the other part (like 'Biergarten', being
pronounced on the first syllable, because 'Bier' describes which kind of
'Garten' a 'Biergarten' is.)

And now I'm out of ideas and need assistance. Is anyone interested in stuff
like this? The algorithm will not work with other languages than German,
but the ideas may.

Klemens (+-)


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Ling & Literature
Phonology
Text/Corpus Linguistics

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