Enjambment Detection in a Large Diachronic Corpus of Spanish Sonnets

Pablo Ruiz Fabo, Clara Martínez Cantón, Thierry Poibeau, Elena González-Blanco


Abstract
Enjambment takes place when a syntactic unit is broken up across two lines of poetry, giving rise to different stylistic effects. In Spanish literary studies, there are unclear points about the types of stylistic effects that can arise, and under which linguistic conditions. To systematically gather evidence about this, we developed a system to automatically identify enjambment (and its type) in Spanish. For evaluation, we manually annotated a reference corpus covering different periods. As a scholarly corpus to apply the tool, from public HTML sources we created a diachronic corpus covering four centuries of sonnets (3750 poems), and we analyzed the occurrence of enjambment across stanzaic boundaries in different periods. Besides, we found examples that highlight limitations in current definitions of enjambment.
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W17-2204
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Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
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LaTeCH
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SIGHUM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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27–32
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-2204
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-2204
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Pablo Ruiz Fabo, Clara Martínez Cantón, Thierry Poibeau, and Elena González-Blanco. 2017. Enjambment Detection in a Large Diachronic Corpus of Spanish Sonnets. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 27–32, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Enjambment Detection in a Large Diachronic Corpus of Spanish Sonnets (Ruiz Fabo et al., LaTeCH 2017)
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