Abstract Representations of Plot Struture

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology

Micha Elsner¹ 

[1] The Ohio State University

关键词: ose;    plot structure;    novel;    discourse modeling;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: C S L I Publications

【 摘 要 】

Since the 18th century, the novel has been one of the defining forms of English writing, a mainstay of popular entertainment and academic criticism. Despite its importance, however, there are few computational studies of the large-scale structure of novels—and many popular repre- sentations for discourse modeling do not work very well for novelistic texts. This paper describes a high-level representation of plot structure which tracks the frequency of mentions of different characters, topics and emotional words over time. The representation can distinguish with high accuracy between real novels and artificially permuted surrogates; characters are important for eliminating random permutations, while topics are effective at distinguishing beginnings from ends. .

【 授权许可】

Unknown