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International audience; With DISCO, the DIachronic Spanish Sonnet COrpus (Ruiz et al., 2018), we collected 4,087 sonnets, from the 15th to the 19th centuries, including canonical and lesser-studied authors from both Spain and Latin-America, with detailed author metadata, metrics, rhyme-scheme and enjambment annotations. The dataset is on GitHub and Zenodo, offered in plain text and TEI, and enriched with RDFa, a linked-data format.The corpus was intended for research, teaching, and also for non-specialist use. Some questions naturally emerge: How can we easily navigate this corpus and its rich metadata? How can we identify trends thanks to its annotations? How can users not proficient in XML query languages and linked data benefit from such a dataset? To address these issues, we’ve created DISCOver, a user-friendly web interface for the corpus, which we present here and is meant to help students, researchers, and readers overall, making the corpus accessible to a wider audience. DISCOver offers corpus navigation by author and period. Female poets and Latin-American authors were highlighted thanks to dedicated filters. For poems returned by a query, metrical features can be visualized: number of syllables, stress patterns, rhyme scheme, and enjambment. Graphs compare each poem’s stress and metrical features with subcorpora for its author and period, and with the complete corpus. This helps determine to what an extent the poem is representative of or diverges from typical values for an author or period. The metrical schemes graph is interactive: clicking on a scheme highlights all lines by an author where that scheme was used. The graphs allow an efficient circular reading, from close to distant reading and back to close reading, contextualising the poem and comparing it with general trends in its century or in the whole corpus.DISCOver’s functions thus help identify trends and outliers, contributing to our knowledge of the sonnet in Spanish. We argue that similar functionality could be implemented, with the same benefits, in the interfaces for other poetry corpora.

Las tecnologías y su dimensión ubicua se hacen presentes en todas las disciplinas y han cambiado la forma de estudiar e investigar, creando campos como las Humanidades Digitales cuyo auge es ya innegable. Los estudios de grado en humanidades no siempre reflejan este giro digital. En este artículo presentamos los resultados de una experiencia docente cuyo objetivo ha sido la mejora de la adquisición de los contenidos métricos del grado, así como la adquisición de contenidos transversales en relación a la tecnología y la digitalidad.

International audience; We present software to automatically identify enjambment (and its type) in Spanish. Traditionally, enjambment is described as a device whereby no syntactic pause occurs at the end of a poetry line, splitting a phrase across two lines. Most definitions highlight the conflict between syntactic and metrical units, yielding stylistic effects like double interpretations. In Spanish versification, Quilis (1964) performed poetry reading experiments, characterizing enjambment as a device occurring only when very cohesive syntactic units, which it would be unnatural to interrupt, are split across lines. Spang (1983) noted that splitting verbs and their subject or object across two lines also triggers (softer) enjambment-like effects. These characterizations are still considered current, but some points in them are debated.To systematically gather evidence on enjambment, we created a Natural Language Processing-based system that automatically detects and types enjambments as characterized above. For evaluation, we manually annotated a reference corpus. We consider system results satisfactory; F1 varied depending on enjambment type and poems’ period. We are not aware of large-sample enjambment studies across periods, literary movements, or versification types in Spanish, or other languages. Automatic detection can provide quantitative evidence for questions in verse theory, e.g.: To what an extent is enjambment used differently in free verse vs. traditional versification? Applying the system to 3,750 sonnets covering four centuries is shedding light on unclear points in the definition of enjambment. The system finds line-pairs formally fitting the description of enjambment, but that, upon human validation, we’d consider borderline cases, given other stylistic factors, e.g. hyperbaton. Conversely, our annotators are sometimes surprised that certain line-pairs are not considered enjambed in the typology. Automatic identification of many examples, plus expert validation, is helping towards a more nuanced redefinition of enjambment. An online user-interface is at http://prf1.org/anja/index and a command-line version is at https://bitbucket.org/pruizf/anja_public

En este preludio se realiza un acercamiento al concepto de verso cantado y sus inmensas posibilidades de estudio desde las más variadas áreas de interés. el centro de atención, será, sin embargo, el estudio de la métrica y el ritmo de este tipo de manifestaciones artísticas. Se presentan además los artículos que componen esta sección monográfica, para conseguir una mejor visión global del conjunto.This prelude approaches the concept of sung verse and its immense possibilities of study from the most varied areas of interest. The focus is set, however, on the study of metrics and rhythm of this kind of artistic expression. The papers contained in this special issue are also introduced here, as an overview of the whole.