A comparative analysis between automatic and manual scansions of Gregório de Matos’ verses

• Autor(a) principal: Mittmann, Adiel
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Maia, Samanta Rosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Texto digital
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/textodigital/article/view/1807-9288.2016v13n1p157

This article compares results obtained from two scansions of the same corpus, the complete poetic works of Gregório de Matos. One scansion was manually established and published by Rogério Chociay in his book Os Metros do Boca, while the other one was automatically produced by the tool Aoidos.  The comparison shows that there are some differences between these two types of scansion: Aoidos found significantly more verses in the corpus, which is evidence that Chociay skipped some poems; on the other hand, Chociay scanned Matos’ verses correctly and with propriety, whereas Aoidos made some mistakes that humans would not make.  In any case, both the automatic approach as well as the manual work produced compatible results, which highlights the usefulness of the automatic tool, since it scans in a few minutes what usually take months for a human to analyze in the course of the regular reading process.  This speed-up in the production of results allows researchers and scholars to focus their time on less tiring and more refined activities, since they now have quick access to a great amount of data.