In a later post in this series of articles analysing a dataset of song lyrics, I will consider the more general question of identifying parts-of-speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), which can greatly expand what can be learned from statistical text analysis. However, in this article, I will focus on a particular part of speech: proper nouns.
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Song Lyrics 4: Sentiment Analysis
In this fourth article in the series looking at our song lyrics dataset, we will begin to consider the meaning of the lyrics, rather than just treating the words as abstract objects. A simple technique for quantifying the meaning of texts is known as ‘sentiment analysis’.
Continue reading →Song Lyrics 3: Repetition and Compression
We all know that a good song depends on repetition – both of the tune and the lyrics. Too much repetition and it is just boring; too little, and it can lack structure. This article looks at different aspects of repetition in song lyrics.
Continue reading →Song Lyrics 2: n-grams
In the previous article in this series we looked at counting the frequency of words in a dataset of song lyrics. This time we will look at combinations of words – or n-grams.
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