Color Map of Taras Shevchenko’s "Kobzar" with MATHEMATICA

Abstract.

COLOR MAP OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO’S “KOBZAR” WITH MATHEMATICA

Illya Danyliuk

Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistics, Donetsk National University, Donetsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine

Available 12 September 2013.

Abstract

Relevance

Today there are a lot of instruments for natural language processing, many of them are highly automated. Modern programming languages make it possible to process in detail the text data on the level of separate symbols, groups of symbols (phrases and sentences), progressively some functions to deal with sense and meaning appear. The amount of built-in string functions grows up, and it makes the developer’s potential wider and helps to save time because of no need for manual creating of such functions and procedures. For example, the procedure for measuring the difference between two sequences – Levenshtein distance or the minimal editing distance – is to be written by the developer on Python or else as a user defined procedure. But in some modern systems this procedure is included as pre-installed one. Computational software program Mathematica from Wolfram Research, which is widely used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields – and we’ll exploit it for linguistics – has a built-in function Edit Distance [x, y]. We suppose the major NLP algorithms – such as lemmatization, word forms synthesis, POS-tagging and syntactical analysis or even automated translation – will become the built-in procedures.

Color map (CM) is a composition, a grid made of colored rectangles (or any other figures) – one for every name of color in the original text. Every usage of adjective meaning color – ‘білий’ (white), ‘чорний’ (black), ‘червоний’, (red),‘золотий’(gold) – in CP will be shown as square of the proper color. So we can get a full and absolutely objective presentation of lexical data from the particular text and some traits of “world picture”, color concepts for the work of literature. It is a matter of topical interest in Ukrainian linguistics and philology, so the instrument for automated color information retrieval from any text is highly needed as we suppose.

The research object – text of “Kobzar” by Taras Shevchenko – basically is a txt-format file from [litopys.org.ua], prepared for processing (in Unicode, every token is divided by space). And the subject thus is a usage of color names represented in the form of CM.

Purpose

The main goal of the article is to describe the process, instruments, and directly code for automated generating a color map for random text in Ukrainian, and particularly for the “Kobzar” by Taras Shevchenko – his 200-years anniversary approaches.

Tasks

We divided our research into several tasks: 1) to retrieve all possible statistical information from the text of “Kobzar” for further analysis; 2) to create some procedures (in code for Mathematica Language) to work with certain words and sentences; 3) to build a language model for color names in Ukrainian considering inflection and some aspects of derivation; 4) to use the model for generating CM of “Kobzar”, and to describe its perspectives.

Conclusion

As a common conclusion: the procedure of creating CM for Ukrainian text in Mathematica is rather complicated because of excluding of some symbols (є, і, ї, ґ) from “normal” list in Unicode, necessity to pass over the fact that Cyrillic letters are not included to the list of correct word symbols in RE as Latin ones and digits. Other way creating some explicit functions helps to solve that problem effectively. And the Mathematica system itself is a powerful environment for computational linguistics studies with rich high-level programming language, and can be recommended for studying by the students of philological departments in Ukrainian high schools.

As a particular conclusion: Taras Shevchenko’s “Kobzar” in a color conceptual point of view is rich in color names, main of them are white and black, blue and red, green, and gray. Comparing CM for “Kobzar” with CMs for other works of literature and folklore must be significant, but it’s a subject for further studying.

Perspective

The described method to build a CM form linguistics position is just a basic one. It can be improved by adding to the color model derivative adjectives (білявий, чорнющий), verbs (біліти), and nouns (чорнота), some Ukrainian names of secondary colors (ясно-зелений), closely related lexicon – coat colors, etc.

Research highlights

► The article describes an idea and its realization process for creating Color Map (CM) for the text – in particular “Kobzar” by Taras Shevchenko. ► CM is a composition, a grid made of colored rectangles (or any other figures) – one for every name of color in the original text. ► Absolutely objective result shows visually the distribution of particular adjectives.

Keywords: color name, language model, inflection, Shevchenko, MATHEMATICA.

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Danyliuk, I. H. (2014). Analiz tekstu "Kobzarya" Tarasa Shevchenka v seredovyshchi Mathematica: symvoly, slova i kol'ory. E-portal: https://app.box.com/kobzar.

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Wellin, Paul R. (2013). Programming with Mathematica, An Introduction. Cambridge.

Correspondence: i.g.danyluk@gmail.com

Vitae.

Turn your attention to the place where some special Ukrainian letters (framed) have appeared after sorting. The reason is that in standard table of symbols they are located not within common Cyrillic list but on rather accidental positions. This inconvenience you have to take into account using regular expression (RE) patterns like “all Ukrainian letters from A to Я”. In fact, RE like /[Є-ґ]+/ is good enough for pattern “all Ukrainian letters”, but it returns a couple of non-Ukrainian symbols – Э, ъ, ы, э.

Next step we move to words processing. A variable allWords contains all wordforms from kobzar without capital/non-capital letters distinction – by replacing using RE:

Short[allWords = Sort[Tally[DeleteCases[StringSplit[StringReplace[StringReplace[kobzar, Thread[Join[CharacterRange["А", "Я"], {"Є", "І", "Ї", "Ґ"}] -> Join[CharacterRange["а", "я"], {"є", "і", "ї", "ґ"}]]], RegularExpression["[^" <> StringJoin@Join[CharacterRange["а", "я"], {"є", "і", "ї", "ґ"}] <> "]"] -> " "], " "], ""]], #1[[2]] > #2[[2]] &], 5]

The number of tokens in kobzar is 110617, and unique wordforms is 17617. 100 of the most frequency ones are:

allWords[[1";;" 200]][[";;",1]]

{"і", "не", "а", "в", "на", "та", "з", "й", "я", "що", "у", "за", "як", "то", "ти", "и", "до", "де", "так", "чи", "ж", "його", "щоб", "по", "мене", "ні", "ще", "собі", "мов", "б", "все", "мені", "мати", "моя", "бо", "люде", "мій", "тебе", "серце", "с", "аж", "о", "той", "буде", "світі", "вже", "ми", "хоч", "із", "там", "без", "поки", "може", "хто", "того", "нехай", "їх", "нема", "діти", "боже", "над", "він", "було", "те", "неначе", "он", "ви", "мої", "коли", "тяжко", "бога", "тілько", "нас", "же", "про", "лихо", "море", "під", "добре", "таки", "од", "уже", "половина", "тихо", "сльози", "ой", "старий", "свою", "вона", "как", "отак", "чого", "її", "очі", "друга", "треба", "кого", "п", "колись", "нічого"}

For creating the possibility to look for particular wordform in the text we build a function wordPosition, which returns array of symbols positions.

replacements=Thread[Join[CharacterRange["а","я"],{"є","і","ї","ґ"}]->Join[CharacterRange["А","Я"],{"Є","І","Ї","Ґ"}]]

Here is the output for тополя:

wordPosition["тополя"]

{{19462, 19469}, {40838, 40845}, {56587, 56594}, {134756, 134763}, {248726, 248733}, {308308, 308315}, {320139, 320146}, {517723, 517730}}

If we find positions for dots (and other symbols at the end of the sentence – “!”, “?”, “…”) it will be possible to retrieve a whole sentence (sequence of symbols between two punctuation marks) and put it to the variable sentence.

Short[dots = #[[1]] & /@ StringPosition[kobzar, {".","?","!","\[Ellipsis]"}], 5];

sentense[{min_,max_}]:=Block[{start=Select[Nearest[dots,min,10],#<min&][[1]]+1,end=Select[Nearest[dots,max,10],#>max&][[1]]},StringTake[kobzar,{start,end}]]

Combining wordPosition and sentence is a concordance for particular wordform:

Grid[Transpose@{StringReplace[sentense /@ wordPosition["тополя"],

"\n" -> ""]}, Background -> {None, {{Orange, LightGray}}},

ItemStyle -> Directive[16, Bold, FontFamily -> "Arial"],

Alignment -> Left, Dividers -> All]

Now we have to define a common color model for using to build CM. Its relevance and deepness in Ukrainian – including lemmatization accuracy and color concept detail – are crucial for CM quality. The basic approach and the first step we use are to find adjectives, which signify colors directly and consist of one wordform. We put those adjectives to array variable tc (table of colors) and describe them with RGB model (the piece of code is quite long and is suitable for viewing in digital version). The adjectives are: білий, червоний, зелений, синій, жовтий, чорний, сірий, рожевий, коричневий, блакитний, пурпурний, пурпуровий, оранжевий, помаранчевий, фіолетовий, амарантовий, бурштиновий, аметистовий, абрикосовий, аквамариновий, арсеновий, спаржевий, бежевий, латунний, бронзовий, брунатний, карміновий, морквяний, лазуровий, каштановий, шоколадний, цинамоновий, кобальтовий, мідний, кораловий, кукурудзяний, блаватний, кремовий, малиновий, джинсовий, смарагдовий, баклажановий, лляний, золотий, індиго, нефритовий, хакі, лавандний, лимонний, бузковий, малахітовий, гірчичний, оливковий, помаранчевий, ліловий, персиковий, грушевий, барвінковий, сливовий, бурий, іржавий, шафрановий, сапфіровий, багряний, срібний, болотний, мандариновий, будяковий, бірюзовий, ультрамариновий, фіолетовий, пшеничний.

And here is the fragment of the tc presentation:

The color model also includes rules for retrieving different wordforms and finding their lemmas, so червоний, червоного, червона, червонії etc. will be represented by the lemma червоний and the red square. For that purpose we use sequentially a wordforms synthesis with the dictionary of the stems and endings (generate all possible wordforms for every adjective in the table of colors), then we find the positions for these wordforms in kobzar, assign these positions to particular lemmas and finally range the lemmas as they appear in the text and replace them with color squares.

Adjective inflection in Ukrainian includes hard (червоний) and soft (синій) groups, contracted (червона) and non-contracted forms (червоная). The variables ColorEdningsTv and ColorEdningsMk contain accordingly ending for hard contracted and non-contracted forms and soft contracted and non-contracted forms:

ColorEdningsTv={"ий","ого","ому","им","ім","е","а","ої","ій","у","ою","і","их","им", "ими", "еє","ая","ую","ії"};

ColorEdningsMk={"ій","ього","ьому","ім","є","я","ьої","ю","ьою","і","іх","іми","еє", "єє","яя", "юю","ії"};

A variable colorRules includes a generated array of all possible wordforms for naming colors (combination of stems from tc and endings from ColorEdningsTv and ColorEdningsMk) with built-in probable modification of the adjective using affixes (білий – біленький). The fragment od code:

colorRules=Flatten[{Thread[Flatten[Table[{"біл", "біленьк"}[[v]]<>ColorEdningsTv[[u]],{v,2},{u,Length[ColorEdningsTv]}]]->White], Thread[Table["син"<>ColorEdningsMk[[u]],{u,Length[ColorEdningsMk]}]->Blue],… Thread[Table["пшеничн"<>ColorEdningsTv[[u]],{u,Length[ColorEdningsTv]}]->RGBColor[245/255,222/255,179/255]]}]

The positions of generated wordforms are retrieved to variable colorInformationPre and then are sorted in colorInformation:

colorInformationPre={#,wordPosition[#]}&/@colorRules[[;;,1]];

colorInformation=Sort[Flatten[Partition[Riffle[#[[2]],#[[1]],{2,-1,2}],2]&/ @colorInformationPre,1],Mean[#1[[1]]]<Mean[#2[[1]]]&]

And finally we build CM:

Panel[Grid[Partition[Graphics[{#,EdgeForm[Black],Rectangle[]},ImageSize->20]&/@(colorInformation[[;;,2]]/.colorRules),30,30,1,""],Spacings->{0,0}]]

Here is the result:

In digital version for this article a possibility to see the real sentence by clicking on the particular square is added.

As a common conclusion: the procedure of creating CM for Ukrainian text in Mathematica is rather complicated because of excluding of some symbols (є, і, ї, ґ) from “normal” list in Unicode, necessity to pass over the fact that Cyrillic letters are not included to the list of correct word symbols in RE as Latin ones and digits. Other way creating some explicit functions helps to solve that problem effectively. And the Mathematica system itself is a powerful environment for computational linguistics studies with rich high-level programming language, and can be recommended for studying by the students of philological departments in Ukrainian high schools.

As a particular conclusion: Taras Shevchenko’s “Kobzar” in a color conceptual point of view is rich in color names, main of them are white and black, blue and red, green, and gray. Comparing CM for “Kobzar” with CMs for other works of literature and folklore must be significant, but it’s a subject for further studying. As it is maintained about Ukrainian in [Ковтун 2009: 51], “color feature appeared in the language in diachronic sequence. In folklore initially the dominant is represented by definitions of white and black, followed by red (triad white – black – red), later – green and yellow, then – blue and brown.” It seems even superficially that Taras Shevchenko’s work is close to national folklore and is a piece of common Ukrainian discourse.

The described method to build a CM form linguistics position is just a basic one. It can be improved by adding to the color model derivative adjectives (білявий, чорнющий), verbs (біліти), and nouns (чорнота), some Ukrainian names of secondary colors (ясно-зелений), closely related lexicon – coat colors, etc.

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У статті описано ідею і реалізацію процесу створення кольорової мапи (КМ) для довільного тексту взагалі, й зокрема для «Кобзаря» Тараса Шевченка. КМ – це множина, сітка кольорових прямокутників (або інших фігур), кожен із яких стосується певної кольороназви (лексеми на позначення кольору) у вихідному тексті. Цілковито об’єктивний результат демонструє дистрибуцію відповідних прикметників. Оригінал статті створено у новітньому CDF – форматі обчислюваного документа, і може бути застосований до довільного тексту українською мовою з урахуванням словозміни й словотвору.

Ключові слова: кольороназва, мовна модель, словозміна, Шевченко, MATHEMATICA.

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