»textklang« – Towards a Multi-Modal Exploration Platform for German Poetry

Nadja Schauffler, Toni Bernhart, Andre Blessing, Gunilla Eschenbach, Markus Gärtner, Kerstin Jung, Anna Kinder, Julia Koch, Sandra Richter, Gabriel Viehhauser, Ngoc Thang Vu, Lorenz Wesemann, Jonas Kuhn


Abstract
We present the steps taken towards an exploration platform for a multi-modal corpus of German lyric poetry from the Romantic era developed in the project »textklang«. This interdisciplinary project develops a mixed-methods approach for the systematic investigation of the relationship between written text (here lyric poetry) and its potential and actual sonic realisation (in recitations, musical performances etc.). The multi-modal »textklang« platform will be designed to technically and analytically combine three modalities: the poetic text, the audio signal of a recorded recitation and, at a later stage, music scores of a musical setting of a poem. The methodological workflow will enable scholars to develop hypotheses about the relationship between textual form and sonic/prosodic realisation based on theoretical considerations, text interpretation and evidence from recorded recitations. The full workflow will support hypothesis testing either through systematic corpus analysis alone or with addtional contrastive perception experiments. For the experimental track, researchers will be enabled to manipulate prosodic parameters in (re-)synthesised variants of the original recordings. The focus of this paper is on the design of the base corpus and on tools for systematic exploration – placing special emphasis on our response to challenges stemming from multi-modality and the methodologically diverse interdisciplinary setup.
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2022.lrec-1.572
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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5345–5355
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Nadja Schauffler, Toni Bernhart, Andre Blessing, Gunilla Eschenbach, Markus Gärtner, Kerstin Jung, Anna Kinder, Julia Koch, Sandra Richter, Gabriel Viehhauser, Ngoc Thang Vu, Lorenz Wesemann, and Jonas Kuhn. 2022. »textklang« – Towards a Multi-Modal Exploration Platform for German Poetry. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5345–5355, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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»textklang« – Towards a Multi-Modal Exploration Platform for German Poetry (Schauffler et al., LREC 2022)
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