Pop lyrics, parsed & tagged.
A sustainably maintained resource for the empirical study of contemporary German pop music lyrics, enriched with part-of-speech, lemma, and named-entity annotation layers. Built for linguistic research, open to the curious public.
Four levels of description
Empirical analyses across the full corpus — from raw characters to whole songs and their trends across seven decades.
Character 01
Character frequencies, distributions and n-grams across the full corpus.
→ run analysisWord 02
Vocabulary, frequency distributions, collocations and word n-grams.
→ run analysisVerse & sentence 03
Line lengths, strophe structures and sentence-level patterns.
→ run analysisSong 04
Song-level statistics, metadata and trends over time.
→ run analysisSchneider, Roman (2020): A Corpus Linguistic Perspective on Contemporary German Pop Lyrics with the Multi-Layer Annotated "Songkorpus". In: Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Marseille: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 835–841.