Clustering of Novels Represented as Social Networks

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology

Caroline Sporleder¹  Mariona Coll Ardanuy¹ 

[1] Trier University

关键词: novel;    social networks;    narrative structure;   

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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 】

Within the field of literary analysis, there are few branches as con- fusing as that of genre theory. Literary criticism has failed so far to reach a consensus on what makes a genre a genre. In this paper, we examine the degree to which the character structure of a novel is in- dicative of the genre it belongs to. With the premise that novels are societies in miniature, we build static and dynamic social networks of characters as a strategy to represent the narrative structure of novels in a quantifiable manner. For each of the novels, we compute a vector of literary-motivated features extracted from their network representa- tion. We perform clustering on the vectors and analyze the resulting clusters in terms of genre and authorship. .

【 授权许可】

Unknown