Usually, text analyzing programs consider "ich" ("I", "me") a stopword, a functional word without special meaning. This is due to the fact that grammars categorize "ich" as a pronoun. But, as Eugen Coseriu stated in his book "Introduction to the linguistics of texts" (German edition 1985), this does not correspond to the real use of this word. While "he" in "Ralf is tired. He will go to bed soon" is a substitute, i.e. pro-noun, for "Ralf", "I" in "Ralf is tired. I am going to bed" is not. The "I " here is understood as reference to a second person. T he same is true of "du " ( "you " ). "Ich " and "Du ", these two words have a deictic function, they indicate somebody. Hence, we should not treat them as functional words or eliminate them as stopwords. Especially in literary texts, which have, according not only to Habermas (198...
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.