Analysis of Similes in Serbian Literary Texts (1860-1920) Using Computational Methods

Reference

Krstev, Cvetana, Jelena Jaćimović, and Duško Vitas. “Analysis of Similes in Serbian Literary Texts (1860-1920) Using Computational Methods”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2020) (presented at the Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2020), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2020), 31–41. URL: https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CLIB2020_PROCEEDINGS_v1.0.pdf

Abstract

Similes are rhetorical figures which play an important role in literary texts. This paper presents a finite-state methodology developed for the description of adjectival similes, which enables their retrieval and annotation in Serbian novels written in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. The results of a textometric analysis reveal the most frequent adjectival similes and the specificity of their usage, with respect to the author, title, or publication date, in a subset of the SrpELTeC corpus.

Keywords

ELTeC, Annotation, Novels, Textometry, Literary corpus, Simile, Multi-word units, Serbian

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@inproceedings{krstev_analysis_2020,
	address = {Sofia},
	title = {Analysis of {Similes} in {Serbian} {Literary} {Texts} (1860-1920) using {Computational} {Methods}},
	url = {https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CLIB2020_PROCEEDINGS_v1.0.pdf},
	abstract = {Similes are rhetorical figures which play an important role in literary texts.This paper presents a finite-state methodology developed for the description ofadjectival similes, which enables their retrieval and annotation in Serbian novels written in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. The results of a textometricanalysis reveal the most frequent adjectival similes and the specificity of theirusage, with respect to the author, title, or publication date, in a subset of the SrpELTeC corpus.},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Fourth} {International} {Conference} {Computational} {Linguistics} in {Bulgaria} ({CLIB} 2020)},
	publisher = {Bulgarian Academy of Sciences},
	author = {Krstev, Cvetana and Jaćimović, Jelena and Vitas, Duško},
	month = jun,
	year = {2020},
	keywords = {type\_publication},
	pages = {31--41},
}