Conférence Petr Plecháč: Comparative Computational Poetics

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Rythme et répétition, le CTELA accueille le 20 mai Petr Plecháč, chercheur tchèque, reconnu au niveau international pour ses recherches innovantes en analyse métrique et syntaxique de la poésie assistée par l’ordinateur.

Résumé 

The talk will introduce PoeTree, a standardised, open-access collection of poetic corpora in eleven languages, and demonstrate how such dataset may be used in cross-language comparative study of poetry, using the case of fixed forms.

PoeTree brings together poetry in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. In total, it comprises more than 330,000 poems, nearly 12 million lines, and close to 90 million tokens. The resource is designed to be both human -and machine- accessible : researchers can work with the data via direct download, full-text in-browser search, a REST API, and dedicated Python and R packages.

As an illustration of its comparative potential, the talk will focus on fixed forms (sonnet, terza rima, ritornello...). Defined primarily by finite or recurrent rhyme schemes -features that are largely independant of any single language- these forms have travelled easily across European traditions while often retaining associations with their earlier uses. An experienced reader who encounters a fourteen-line sonnet, regardless of language, may anticipate themes of love or introspection, while terza rima almost inevitably evokes Dante's Divine Comedy and, by extension, the grand tradition of Italian Renaissance. The presentation will show how methods inspired by corpus linguistics and bioinformatics can be used to detect such forms at scale, and how NLP-driven modelling can trace the semantic and cultural associations that accompany them across languages and traditions.

Le conférencier

Petr Plecháč est chercheur, spécialiste de l'analyse computationnelle de la poésie. Membre du Cercle linguistique de Prague, il dirige le Groupe de Recherche de la Versification à l'Institut d'Études Littéraires de l'Académie des Sciences Tchèque.

La conférence sera suivie d'un débat. L'entrée est libre.
 

Lien zoom

https://univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/j/83741534057?pwd=IkkDkBXfPbWVygMBPC7tgQOwnducT4.1
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Meeting ID: 837 4153 4057
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