Multidimensional Visualization of Sound–Sense Harmony for Shakespeare’s Sonnets Classification
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In this article, we focus on the association of sound and sense harmony in the collection of sonnets written by Shakespeare in the XVI° beginning of the XVII° century and propose a new four-dimensional representation to visualize them by means of the system called SPARSAR. To compute the degree of harmony and disharmony, we automatically extracted the sound grids of all the sonnets and combined them with the semantics and polarity expressed by their contents. We explain in detail the algorithm and show the representation of the whole collection of 154 sonnets and comment on them extensively. In a second experiment, we use data from the manual annotation of the sonnets for satire detection using the Appraisal Theory Framework, to gauge the system’s accuracy in matching these data with the output of the automatic algorithm for sound–sense harmony. The results obtained with a 94.6% accuracy confirm the obvious fact that the poet has to account for both sound and meaning in the choice of words.
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OpenAlex topics: Music and Audio Processing · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
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Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca Foscari University of Venice, 30123 Venezia, Italy
Meta, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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