PLOTTING POETRY 8: Skeletons in the Closet
16-17-18 June, 2025Prague, Czechia
Programme
Monday, 16 June
| 10.00–12.00 |
Registration & sandwiches
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| 12.00–13.30 |
“Words Unformed and Unly”: Computational emulations and creative explorations of Cummings’ deviant morphology
Emily Hedvig Olsson, Anja Hendrikse Liu, Sarah Immel, Bríd-Áine Parnell
Searching for the obvious: mis-recognising repetition patterns in Norwegian poetry
Ranveig Kvinnsland and Ingerid Løyning Dale
Froward correlations
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir
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| 13.30 |
Coffee break
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| 14.00–15.30 |
Syntax: The skeleton of style
Ben Nagy
Keywords on mainframes: what can we learn from Geir Kjetsaa's studies in computational poetics?
Antonina Martynenko
Verses hidden behind three curtains
Mihhail Lotman
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| 15.30 |
Coffee break
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| 16.00–17.00 |
The Digital Lens: Irony Detection in Works of Juliusz Słowacki
Anna Mędrzecka-Stefańska
Automatic Scansion of Basque Poetry: Many Questions and Few Answers (yet)
Manex Agirrezabal
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Tuesday, 17 June
| 10.00–11.30 |
Transforming Poetic Thought into Waka: How to Pack the Skeleton into a 31-Syllable Closet
Hilofumi Yamamoto, Bor Hodošček
Typology and Evolution: Revisiting the History of Romanian Poetry with Computational Tools
Andrei Terian, Mihai Dascalu, Aura Cristina Udrea, Iuliana-Loredana Bîrsan
Do Zodiac signs influence authorial style? No.
Petr Plecháč, Artjoms Šeļa, Neža Kočnik
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| 11.30 |
Lunch break
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| 13.00–14.30 |
Romance Syllabics and Slavic Tonics in the 20th Century: Unexpected Influence
Vera Polilova
Limericks in the closet: the unseen world of Estonian limericks
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Rebekka Lotman
The Echoes of the Noise or the Desperate Hope to Understand the Sound of Silence
Andor Horváth, Levente Seláf
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| 14.30 |
Coffee break
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| 15.00–16.30 |
Evaluating Large Language Models for Translation and Annotation of Finnic Runosongs: Methodological Challenges
Lidia Pivovarova, Eetu Mäkelä, Kaarel Veskis, Kati Kallio, Mari Väina, Jakob Lindström
(A)versions: Comparing performances of the “same” poem
Plinio Barbosa, Stefan Blohm, Chris Mustazza
Violets, Crucible, Measurement: Quantifying Features in Poetic Translation
Anastasia Belousova
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| 17.00 |
Buffet dinner
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Wednesday, 18 June
| 10.00–11.00 |
Hidden Choral Stimuli: The Role of Accent in Aristophanes’ Refrains
Albin Thörn Cleland
Machine Poetics: Music Genre Classification Using Prosodic, Stylistic, Syntactic, and Sentiment-based Features
Stefan Baghiu, Erik-Robert Kovacs
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| 11.00 |
Lunch break
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| 12.30–14.00 |
Aspects of humour salient to large language models: says who?
Pablo Ruiz Fabo
Skeletons Out in the Open
Nicolas Mugavero
JIGS of unburied figures
Anne-Sophie Bories, Nils Couturier
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| 14.00 |
Optional river swimming in the afternoon (60' from city centre)
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