Abstract
Scansion is the activity of determining the patterns that give verses their poetic rhythm. In Portuguese, this means discovering the number of syllables that the verses in a poem have and fitting all verses to this measure, while attempting to pronounce syllables so that an adequate stress pattern is produced. This article presents Aoidos, a rule-based system that takes a poem written in the Portuguese language and performs scansion automatically, further providing an analysis of rhymes. The system works by making a phonetic transcription of a poem, determining the number of poetic syllables that the verses in the poem should have, fitting all the verses according to this measure and looking for verses that rhyme. Experiments show that the system attains a high accuracy rate (above 98%).
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We would like to thank Isabela M. B. Sandoval, Lívia Guimarães and Samanta Maia for their contribution in the experiments. This work was partially supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and by the Santa Catarina Foundation for the Support of Research and Innovation (FAPESC).
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Mittmann, A., von Wangenheim, A., dos Santos, A.L. (2018). Aoidos: A System for the Automatic Scansion of Poetry Written in Portuguese. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9624. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_46
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