Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
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...For example, one recent project identifies conversational networks in novels, with the goal of evaluating various literary theories (Elson et al., 2010; Elson and McKeown, 2010)....
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...To resolve the former to the latter, we largely follow Davis et al. (2003) and Elson et al. (2010): we define a set of initial characters corresponding to each unique character name that is not a subset of another (e.g., Mr. Tom Sawyer) and deterministically create a set of allowable variants for…...
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...…Proppian (Propp, 1968) roles (Valls-Vargas et al., 2014, 2015), inter-character relationships (Iyyer et al., 2016; Chaturvedi et al., 2016, 2017), and social networks of characters (Elson et al., 2010; Elson, 2012; Agarwal et al., 2013, 2014; Krishnan and Eisenstein, 2015; Srivastava et al., 2016)....
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...Our work specifically addresses these missed cases, and in that sense our technique for creating social networks is complementary to that of Elson et al. (2010)....
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...In Network Theory Plot Analysis, Moretti (2011) takes a similar path as Elson et al. (2010), where the act of speech signifies interaction....
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...Recently, Elson et al. (2010) extracted networks from a corpus of 19th century texts in order to debunk long standing hypotheses from comparative literature (Elson et al., 2010)....
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...Recently, Elson et al. (2010) extracted networks from a corpus of 19th century texts in order to debunk long standing hypotheses from comparative literature (Elson et al....
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...In Network Theory Plot Analysis, Moretti (2011) takes a similar path as Elson et al. (2010), where the act of speech signifies interaction. Moretti (2011) points...
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...with the Stanford NER tagger (Finkel et al., 2005) and extracted noun phrases that were categorized as persons or organizations....
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...We processed each novel with the Stanford NER tagger (Finkel et al., 2005) and extracted noun phrases that were categorized as persons or organizations....
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...Raymond Williams used the term “knowable communities” to describe this world, in which face-to-face relations of a restricted set of characters are the primary mode of social interaction (Williams, 1975, 166)....
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...While researchers have not attempted the automatic construction of social networks representing connections between characters in a corpus of novels, the ACE program has involved entity and relation extraction in unstructured text (Doddington et al., 2004)....
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