Processing of linguistic resources in Python programming language (based on the works of R. W. Emerson, E. Dickinson. E. A. Poe)

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2020. Volume 5. No. 1. pp. 50-54.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33184/dokbsu-2020.1.10

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Romanticism in American literature is one of the strongest intellectual currents. R. W. Emerson, E. Dickinson, E. A. Poe are the writers who paid keen attention to nature, its genesis, the interaction between man and nature. Literary critics dwell on difference of the writers’ comprehension of nature and its influence on man. The works of R. Emerson, E. Dickinson and E. Poe were used to study ways of literary texts processing in Python programming language. Python measured lexical diversity in the texts of the authors, determined the semantic field of the word “nature” in each text and rated the number of informative and non-informative words. It turned out that E. Dickinson’s poems have the highest index of lexical diversity and the least number of non-informative words. The computer analysis proved the results of traditional methods of linguistic analysis.