Hernández Lorenzo, LauraDíaz Paredes, AitorPérez Pozo, ÁlvaroRos Muñoz, SalvadorGonzález-Blanco, ElenaOxford Academic2025-07-102025-07-102021-11-08Laura Hernández-Lorenzo, Aitor Diaz, Alvaro Perez, Salvador Ros, Elena González-Blanco, Exploring Spanish contemporary song lyrics through Digital Humanities methods: Some thematic and structural properties, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 738–746, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab0832055-7671, eISSN 2055-768Xhttps://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab083https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/29393This is a Submitted Manuscript of an article published by Oxford Academic in "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 738–746", available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab083 Este es el manuscrito enviado del artículo publicado por Oxford Academic en "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 738–746", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab083In this article, we present a quantitative study with Digital Humanities methods on an extensive corpus of Spanish contemporary song lyrics, a type of text related to poetry. On the one hand, poetry and songs not only have been connected since their origins, but they share some characteristics, such as the division in lines or the use of rhymes. On the other hand, Digital Humanities quantitative approaches have already been applied to poetry, but we still lack a study in the same fashion for lyrics. Taking advantage of the advances in automatic scansion and syllabification, rhyme detection, or Topic Modeling technologies, the present study analyzes Spanish contemporary song lyrics’ main thematic and structural properties, comparing them with those used in poetic texts. Our results offered new insights into the characteristics of the analyzed texts and their connections to poetic ones.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess1203 Ciencia de los ordenadores5701 Lingüística aplicadaartículo