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Towards a model for replicating aesthetic literary appreciation

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Abstract

This study aims to bridge the gap between subjective literary criticism and natural language processing by creating a model that emulates the results of a survey into literary tastes. A panel of human experts qualified segments of literary text according to how aesthetically pleasing they found them. These segments were then rated for literariness in an open survey using a Likert scale. Each segment was subjected to a parts-of-speech tagger using NLTK and the results compared with those of the survey. Using a Grounded Theory approach, experiments using various combinations of parts-of-speech were carried out in order to build a model that could replicate the results shown in the open survey. The success of this approach confirms the feasibility of using this method to create a more accurate and analytical model of literary criticism involving deeper stylistic markers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management, SWIM 2013
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450321945
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jun 2013
Event5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management, SWIM 2013 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 23 Jun 201323 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management, SWIM 2013

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management, SWIM 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period23/06/1323/06/13

Keywords

  • Literary modeler
  • NLP
  • Stylistics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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