Classification of Tragedies and Comedies in Calderón de la Barca’s Comedias Nuevas
In this study, we aim at distinguishing comedies and tragedies among 112 dramas written by Calderón de la Barca, using procedures established by distributional semantics. 15 each of these comedias nuevas have already been classified by q...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Forschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel / Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften |
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| Online Access: | https://www.zfdg.de/node/363 |
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| Summary: | In this study, we aim at distinguishing comedies and tragedies among 112 dramas
written by Calderón de la Barca, using procedures established by distributional
semantics. 15 each of these comedias nuevas have already
been classified by qualitative researchers as either tragedies or comedies,
respectively; for another 82 dramas the classification was unknown. Four
independent document embedding methods are explored, which differ from each
other in matrix creation and reduction, and in the calculation of similarity or
distance matrices. The best results – measured against the pre-established
classification of these dramas – are obtained through the classification
procedure that applied the strongest matrix reduction. In addition, a
contrastive vocabulary analysis with word embeddings is carried out, based
either on word lists produced by the four tested methods, or on the log-likelihood probability distribution for two sub-corpora
containing only dramas already determined to be comedies or tragedies. This
step permits the identification of 130 terms that are each discriminative
either of comedies or of tragedies. The outcome shows that the explored methods
identify tragedies with greater accuracy than comedies, indicating that
tragedies show stronger lexical cohesion. It also becomes apparent that one
could more appropriately consider classifications such as ›tragedy‹ and
›comedy‹ as poles between which gradual differences can be observed, whereby
the ensuing transitional area contains comedias nuevas
that have been described in prior research as tragicomedias or comedias mitológicas. |
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| ISSN: | 2510-1358 |