Playing R with Rammstein texts can be fun when the outcomes are unexpected, and you get plots like Gut, better. We might even see: How do we manage making "das Gute" appear? From general to keyword plots In the plot based on all the co-occurrences in Rammstein song texts, we can identify a center on the left-hand side: The meaningful central terms seem to be "Lust", "Deutschland", "Liebe", "ich", "du", "kalt" and "gut". Choosing these words as keys, we can plot a new picture. What do we see? There is a clear "ich" - "du" axis. "Liebe" appears together with "ich" and "du", well. But "Lust" seems to be mainly referred only to "ich", as well as "kalt". Into the contexts Finding "kalt" surprising, even at the border of a net with "ich", "du". "Liebe", "Lust", I searched for the occ
The literary quality of these texts is evident. If you have studied German literature, you cannot ignore the allusions not only to GDR songs and brothers Grimm, but also to Trakl and French Symbolism. But how can we analyze Rammstein texts? I want to make them read by the machine. The programming languages R and Python offer a lot of packages with interesting methods of getting into the texts. I am curious about how we can, by machine Learning, find something out.