Training Data Size Sensitivity in Unsupervised Rhyme Recognition
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| author | Plecháč, Petr Šeļa, Artjoms Cinková, Silvie De Sisto, Mirella Nugues, Lara Kočnik, Neža Martynenko, Antonina Nagy, Ben Giovannini, Luca Kolár, Robert |
| author_facet | Plecháč, Petr Šeļa, Artjoms Cinková, Silvie De Sisto, Mirella Nugues, Lara Kočnik, Neža Martynenko, Antonina Nagy, Ben Giovannini, Luca Kolár, Robert |
| contents | Rhyme is deceptively intuitive: what is or is not a rhyme is constructed historically, scholars struggle with rhyme classification, and people disagree on whether two words are rhymed or not. This complicates automated rhymed recognition and evaluation, especially in multilingual context. This article investigates how much training data is needed for reliable unsupervised rhyme recognition using RhymeTagger, a language-independent tool that identifies rhymes based on repeating patterns in poetry corpora. We evaluate its performance across seven languages (Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Russian, and Slovene), examining how training size and language differences affect accuracy. To set a realistic performance benchmark, we assess inter-annotator agreement on a manually annotated subset of poems and analyze factors contributing to disagreement in expert annotations: phonetic similarity between rhyming words and their distance from each other in a poem. We also compare RhymeTagger to three large language models using a one-shot learning strategy. Our findings show that, once provided with sufficient training data, RhymeTagger consistently outperforms human agreement, while LLMs lacking phonetic representation significantly struggle with the task. |
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| spellingShingle | Training Data Size Sensitivity in Unsupervised Rhyme Recognition Plecháč, Petr Šeļa, Artjoms Cinková, Silvie De Sisto, Mirella Nugues, Lara Kočnik, Neža Martynenko, Antonina Nagy, Ben Giovannini, Luca Kolár, Robert Computation and Language Rhyme is deceptively intuitive: what is or is not a rhyme is constructed historically, scholars struggle with rhyme classification, and people disagree on whether two words are rhymed or not. This complicates automated rhymed recognition and evaluation, especially in multilingual context. This article investigates how much training data is needed for reliable unsupervised rhyme recognition using RhymeTagger, a language-independent tool that identifies rhymes based on repeating patterns in poetry corpora. We evaluate its performance across seven languages (Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Russian, and Slovene), examining how training size and language differences affect accuracy. To set a realistic performance benchmark, we assess inter-annotator agreement on a manually annotated subset of poems and analyze factors contributing to disagreement in expert annotations: phonetic similarity between rhyming words and their distance from each other in a poem. We also compare RhymeTagger to three large language models using a one-shot learning strategy. Our findings show that, once provided with sufficient training data, RhymeTagger consistently outperforms human agreement, while LLMs lacking phonetic representation significantly struggle with the task. |
| title | Training Data Size Sensitivity in Unsupervised Rhyme Recognition |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08156 |