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PoeTree. Poetry corpora in 11 languages PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising nearly 335,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, ...

📢 PoeTree 1.0.0 is out!!! 📊 335,000 poems / 12,000,000 lines / 90,000,000 tokens in 11 languages at your fingertips 🇳🇴PoeTree.no added 📍PoeTree.(cs,de,en,fr,hu,it,ru,sl) enriched with geolocation mentions ⚙️Updated and corrected metadata/texts in PoeTree.(de,en,es,ru) poetree.org

📣 Call for papers! "Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics". Themed issue of Computational Humanities Research. Guest editors: @artjomshl.bsky.social & @nmhouston.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

✍️ Our paper is finally out!

All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.

We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
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The Plotting Poetry 8 programme is out now! www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2...

🎓📚✨ Thrilled to announce that Antonina Martynenko is joining our team as a postdoctoral fellow with her project, Role of Cohort Turnover in the Change of Poetic Forms

CALL FOR PAPERS: Plotting Poetry 8 - Skeletons in the Closet. Join us in Prague, 16–18 June 2025! www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2...

PoeTree: Poetry Treebanks in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish Abstract This article presents a set of standardised corpora of poetry comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenia...

Paper on PoeTree is out! Poetry in 10 languages at you fingertips
📝Paper: doi.org/10.1163/2452...
🌐 Web browser: versologie.cz/poetree/brow...
💾 Full data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
⚙️REST API: tinyurl.com/43x7v9dp
🐍Python library: pypi.org/project/poet...
®️ R library: github.com/perechen/poe...

Little howto added to full-text search in PoeTree versologie.cz/poetree/brow...

New website is up and running! versologie.cz

Artjoms Sela @artjomshl.bsky.social on Metronome / Plotting Poetry 7 / Einsiedeln / Switzerland