Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama pp 67–⁠86

Abstract

With DISCO, the DIachronic Spanish Sonnet COrpus, we collected 4,085 sonnets written from the fiftheenth to nineteenth centuries, including canonical and lesser-studied authors from both Spain and Latin-America, with detailed author metadata, metrics, rhyme scheme, and enjambment annotations. The dataset is available in public repositories, offered in plain text and TEI, and enriched with RDFa, a linked data format. The corpus was intended for research and teaching, as well as for non-specialist use. Some questions naturally emerge: How can we easily navigate this corpus and its rich metadata? How can we identify trends using its annotations? How can users not proficient in XML query languages and linked data benefit from such a dataset? To address these issues, we have created DISCOver, a user-friendly web interface that allows users to explorethe DISCO corpus. It was conceived as a means to help students, researchers, and general readers, making the corpus accessible to a wider audience. The interface displays literary annotations in individual texts as well as quantitative data on user-defined subcorpora. In turn, from the aggregated data, we can go back to the texts on which the data are based. Thus, the interface helps us to assess the features of individual texts in the context of quantitative data about larger parts of the corpus and vice-versa. It also helps us to nuance hypotheses based on aggregated data by consulting the texts from which they are derived.

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Bermúdez Sabel, H., Ruiz Fabo, P., & Martínez Cantón, C. (2023). DISCOvering Spanish Sonnets: A Circular Reading Experience. In A. S. Bories, P. Plecháč, & P. Ruiz Fabo (Eds.), Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama: (pp. 67–86). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110781502-004

DOI
http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781502-004

Print ISBN
978-3110-781-41-0

Online ISBN
978-3110-781-50-2

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