A Corpus Linguistic Perspective on Contemporary German Pop Lyrics with the Multi-Layer Annotated "Songkorpus"
- Song lyrics can be considered as a text genre that has features of both written and spoken discourse, and potentially provides extensive linguistic and cultural information to scientists from various disciplines. However, pop songs play a rather subordinate role in empirical language research so far - most likely due to the absence of scientifically valid and sustainable resources. The present paper introduces a multiply annotated corpus of German lyrics as a publicly available basis for multidisciplinary research. The resource contains three types of data for the investigation and evaluation of quite distinct phenomena: TEI-compliant song lyrics as primary data, linguistically and literary motivated annotations, and extralinguistic metadata. It promotes empirically/statistically grounded analyses of genre-specific features, systemic-structural correlations and tendencies in the texts of contemporary pop music. The corpus has been stratified into thematic and author-specific archives; the paper presents some basic descriptive statistics, as well as the public online frontend with its built-in evaluation forms and live visualisations.
Author: | Roman SchneiderGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100347 |
URL: | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/index.html#842 |
ISBN: | 979-10-95546-34-4 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), May 11-16, 2020, Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France |
Publisher: | European Language Resources Association |
Place of publication: | Paris |
Editor: | Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Declerck Thierry, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/08/23 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
Tag: | German; corpus linguistics; pop lyrics; under-resourced language varieties |
GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Forschungsdaten; Korpus <Linguistik>; Lyrics <Lyrik>; Popmusik; Sprachvariante |
First Page: | 842 |
Last Page: | 848 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Program areas: | G2: Sprachinformationssysteme |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |