DOCUMENTATION

This repository contains the R source code used for the analyses presented in:

Schneider, Roman. 2026.
Pop Lyrics Through Time: Challenges in Corpus-Based Modeling of Linguistic and Emotional Dynamics in German Pop Lyrics.
In: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora.
LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca.

The commented script implements the statistical procedures, correlation analyses, regression models, and diachronic trend analyses described in the study. It enables full reproducibility of the computational analyses reported in the publication.

FILES

Pop_Lyrics_Through_Time.R
R script that performs all analyses.

df_num.csv
CSV dataset containing numerical features extracted from song lyrics.

USAGE

Load the dataset:

df_num <- read.csv("df_num.csv")

Run the analysis script:

source("Pop_Lyrics_Through_Time.R")