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Semantics in storytelling in Swedish fiction

Authors:

Dimitrios Kokkinakis,

Jenny Bergenmar,

Ann IgheAuthors Info & Claims

DATeCH '14: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage

Pages 137 - 142

https://doi.org/10.1145/2595188.2595208

Published: 19 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to define foundations and research questions for future large scale exploration of various types of semantic relationships in literature, namely Swedish prose fiction. More specifically, we are interested to get an in-depth understanding of storytelling in Swedish fiction by analyzing and mining the narrative discourse in a small sample of such data, focusing on interpersonal relationships and answering various questions such as how to recognize and assess gender patterns. Our intention is to apply our findings into a much larger scale in the near future in order to obtain useful insights about the social relations, structures, behavior and everyday life of characters found in literary works, thus enhancing the use of prose fiction as a source for research within the humanities and social sciences. Our work is inspired by the notions of distant reading and macroanalysis, a relatively new and often contested paradigm of literary research. In order to achieve our goal we strive for a combination of natural language processing techniques and simple visualizations that allow the user to rapidly focus on key areas of interest and provide the ability to discover latent semantic patterns and structures.

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DATeCH '14: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage

May 2014

200 pages

ISBN:9781450325882

DOI:10.1145/2595188

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Apostolos Antonacopoulos
University of Salford
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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Parulian NDubnicek REvans DHu YLayne‐Worthey GDownie JHeaton RLu KOrr RMagni IWalsh J(2023)Tuning Out the Noise: Benchmarking Entity Extraction for Digitized Native American LiteratureProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/pra2.83960:1(681-685)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2023
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