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论鲍勃·迪伦:一种计算视角

On Bob Dylan: A Computational Perspective

Imperial College London(伦敦帝国学院)

Prashant Garg

AI总结:

本文利用o3-mini-high构建迪伦歌词的有向知识图谱,量化其情感、隐喻、主题多样性与网络复杂性,实证验证其“去习惯化”风格,并提出分析艺术家演变的新计算方法。

摘要:

卡斯·桑斯坦的文章《论鲍勃·迪伦》描述了迪伦的“去习惯化”风格——一种持续拒绝迎合预期、热衷于重塑其音乐与歌词身份的倾向。在本文中,我通过对迪伦1962年至2012年歌词的大规模计算分析,扩展了桑斯坦的观察。我使用o3-mini-high(一种大型语言模型)从歌词中提取概念间关系,并构建有向知识图谱以捕捉迪伦的主题结构。随后,我量化了情感、隐喻表达、主题多样性以及网络复杂性随时间的变化。结果表明,迪伦的歌词越来越依赖隐喻,呈现出不断演变的情感特征,并表现出增强的去习惯化——在本文中以关键概念网络中心性的方差不断增大来衡量。我还发现,对运动、抗议和神话意象的指涉以与迪伦职业生涯中众所周知的阶段相一致的方式波动,反映了他艺术中动态且不可预测的特质。这些发现不仅加深了我们对桑斯坦论点的实证理解,还引入了一种新颖的计算方法,用于分析艺术家的演变——为文化与创造性变迁的研究提供了更广泛的适用性。

英文摘要:

Cass Sunstein's essay 'On Bob Dylan' describes Dylan's 'dishabituating' style -- a constant refusal to conform to expectation and a penchant for reinventing his musical and lyrical identity. In this paper, I extend Sunstein's observations through a large-scale computational analysis of Dylan's lyrics from 1962 to 2012. Using o3-mini-high (a large language model), I extract concept-to-concept relationships from the lyrics and construct directed knowledge graphs that capture Dylan's thematic structure. I then quantify shifts in sentiment, metaphorical expression, thematic diversity, and network complexity over time. The results indicate that Dylan's lyrics increasingly rely on metaphor, display an evolving sentiment profile, and exhibit heightened dishabituation -- measured here as a growing variance in the network centrality of key concepts. I also find that references to movement, protest, and mythic imagery fluctuate in ways that align with well-known phases of Dylan's career, reflecting the dynamic and unpredictable quality of his art. These findings not only deepen our empirical understanding of Sunstein's thesis but also introduce a novel computational method for analyzing an artist's evolution-offering broader applicability to the study of cultural and creative change.

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