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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard"

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  • Workshopbeitrag
    Analysis and Classification of Prosodic Styles in Post-modern Spoken Poetry
    (INF-DH-2018, 2018) Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard; Hussein, Hussein; Baumann, Timo
    We present our research on computer-supported analysis of prosodic styles in post-modern poetry. Our project is unique in making use of both the written as well as the spoken form of the poem as read by the original author. In particular, we use speech and natural language processing technology to align speech and text and to perform textual analyses. We then explore, based on literary theory, the quantitative value of various types of features in dierentiating various prosodic classes of post-modern poetry using machine-learning techniques. We contrast this feature-driven approach with a theoretically less informed neural networks-based approach and explore the relative strengths of both models, as well as how to integrate higher-level knowledge into the NN. In this paper, we give an overview of our project, our approach, and particularly focus on the challenges encountered and lessons learned in our interdisciplinary endeavour. The classification results of the rhythmical patterns (six classes) using NN-based approaches are better than by feature-based approaches.
  • Textdokument
    Rhythmicalizer
    (INFORMATIK 2017, 2017) Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard; Hussein, Hussein; Baumann, Timo
    The most important development in modern and postmodern poetry is the replacement of traditional meter by new rhythmical patterns. Ever since Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), modern (nineteenth-to twenty-first-century) poets have been searching for novel forms of prosody, accent, rhythm, and intonation. Along with the rejection of older metrical units such as the iamb or trochee, a structure of lyrical language was developed that renounced traditional forms like rhyme and meter. This development is subsumed under the term free verse prosody. Our project will test this theory by applying machine learning or deep learning techniques to a corpus of modern and postmodern poems as read aloud by the original authors. To this end, we examine “lyrikline”, the most famous online portal for spoken poetry. First, about 17 different patterns being characteristic for the lyrikline-poems have been identified by the philological scholar of this project. This identification was based on a certain philological method including three different steps: a) grammetrical ranking; b) rhythmic phrasing; and c) mapping rubato and prosodic phrasing. In this paper we will show how to combine this philological and a digital analysis by using the prosody detection available in speech processing technology. In order to analyse the data, we want to use different tools for the following tasks: PoS-tagging, alignment, intonation, phrases and pauses, and tempo. We also analyzed the lyrikline-data by identifying the occurrence of the mentioned patterns. This analysis is a first step towards an automatic classification based on machine learning or deep learning techniques.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A Tool for Human-in-the-Loop Analysis and Exploration of (not only) Prosodic Classifications for Post-modern Poetry
    (INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge), 2019) Baumann, Timo; Hussein, Hussein; Meyer-Sickendiek, Burkhard; Elbeshausen, Jasper
    Data-based analyses are becoming more and more common in the Digital Humanities and tools are needed that focus human efforts on the most interesting and important aspects of exploration, analysis and annotation by using active machine learning techniques. We present our ongoing work on a tool that supports classification tasks for spoken documents (in our case: read-out post-modern poetry) using a neural networks-based classification backend and a web-based exploration and classification environment.