ZeuScansion : A tool for scansion of English poetry

• Autorzy: Agirrezabal M. , Astigarraga A. , Arrieta B. , Hulden M.

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DOI

10.15398/jlm.v4i1.102

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We present a finite-state technology (FST) based system capable of performing metrical scansion of verse written in English. Scansion is the traditional task of analyzing the lines of a poem, marking the stressed and non-stressed elements and dividing the line into metrical feet. The system’s workflow is composed of several subtasks designer around finite-state machines that analyze verse by performing tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, stress placement, and stress-pattern prediction for unknown words. The scanner also classifies poems according to the predominant type of metrical foot found. We present a brief evaluation of the system using a gold standard corpus of humanscanned verse, on which a per-syllable accuracy of 86.78% is achieved. The program uses open-source components and is released under the GNU GPL license.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

scansion; English; poetry; out-of-vocabulary words

• Wydawca: Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN
• Czasopismo: Journal of Language Modelling
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: Vol. 4, No. 1
• Strony: 3--28
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 42 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Agirrezabal M.

• University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Department of Computer Science, 20018 Donostia, Spain

autor

Astigarraga A.

• University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Department of Computer Science, 20018 Donostia, Spain

autor

Arrieta B.

• University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Department of Computer Science, 20018 Donostia, Spain

autor

Hulden M.

• University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado (USA)

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2018).