Anxo Alonso Pérez
2026
Automatic Metrical Scansion of Galician Poetry: First Results
Pablo Ruiz Fabo | Pauline Moreau | Anxo Alonso Pérez
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1
Pablo Ruiz Fabo | Pauline Moreau | Anxo Alonso Pérez
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1
We present the first public, user-friendly system for Galician poetry scansion, a symbolic system derived from a well-performing mixed-meter Spanish scansion library. We adapted its resources to Galician and added a preprocessing module. The system achieves 88% per-line accuracy in exact stress-pattern match on data unseen during development, and has practical value: First, it helps create a large annotated corpus to train scansion systems. Second, its web interface can help engage a non-specialist public. Third, its current accuracy is helpful for annotating large volumes of poetry and studying metrical trends in Computational Literary Studies use cases.