Silaghi-Dumitrescu Radu
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Heliyon. 2023 Aug 11;9(8):e19105. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19105. eCollection 2023 Aug.
In a recent previous investigation of national anthems, preferred topics and their bias (e.g., towards identity, fighting, or well-being) were identified subjectively (Silaghi-Dumitrescu, 2020). The present report aims to verify whether a more objective, automated, comparison of the texts of national anthems across the world can also reveal systematic trends - and to what extent. To this end, the Tropes and Semantria software packages are employed, revealing preferred topics (e.g., state, feeling, body, time, land, religion, family, fight), how their relative weights differ across continents and cultures, and how the conveyed sentiments vary. For instance, "liberty" is more common in Latin-country anthems while almost absent in Asia, "feelings" are less mentioned in Germanic-language anthems, and the first-person singular "I" is essentially absent African anthems. The sentiment scores of the anthems vary from neutral in Latin and Mediterranean anthems to much more positive in Central and Western Asian, Germanic and Slavic countries.
在最近一项关于国歌的调查中，人们主观地确定了国歌中偏好的主题及其偏向性（例如，对身份认同、战斗或福祉的偏向）（西拉吉 - 杜米特雷斯库，2020年）。本报告旨在验证对世界各国国歌文本进行更客观、自动化的比较是否也能揭示系统性趋势，以及能在多大程度上揭示这些趋势。为此，使用了Tropes和Semantria软件包，以揭示偏好的主题（例如，国家、情感、身体、时间、土地、宗教、家庭、战斗），这些主题在各大洲和不同文化中的相对权重如何不同，以及所传达的情感如何变化。例如，“自由”在拉丁国家的国歌中更常见，而在亚洲国歌中几乎不存在；“情感”在日耳曼语系国家的国歌中提及较少；第一人称单数“我”在非洲国歌中基本不存在。国歌的情感得分从拉丁和地中海地区国歌的中性到中亚、西亚、日耳曼和斯拉夫国家国歌的更为积极不等。
