Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling

0560913 - ÚČL 2023 RIV EE eng J - Journal Article
Plecháč, Petr - Kolár, Robert
Metre and Semantics in the Poetry of Czech Post-Symbolists Accessed via LDA Topic Modelling.
Studia Metrica et Poetica. Roč. 9, č. 1 (2022), s. 7-19. ISSN 2346-6901
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-15650S
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : Czech poetry * semantic halo * topic modelling * versification
OECD category: Literary theory
Impact factor: 0.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/smp/article/view/smp.2022.9.1.01

The article deals with the relationship between semantics and poetic meter in the works of Czech post-symbolist poets and their predecessors. We access the phenomena by means of a machine-driven meter recognition on one hand and LDA topic modelling on the other. We first show how the poetic groups differ in their gen-eral preferences for particular topics. Next we analyze the topic distributions in two dominant metres (i.e. iamb and trochee) across the poetic groups.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0333687