Dynamic evolution of sentiments in Never Let Me Go: Insights from multifractal theory and its implications for literary analysis

Q Hu, B Liu, MR Thomsen, J Gao… - Digital Scholarship in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The moods, feelings, and attitudes represented in a novel will resonate in the reader by
activating similar sentiments. It is generally accepted that sentiment analysis can capture …

[PDF][PDF] Fractal Sentiments and Fairy Tales-Fractal scaling of narrative arcs as predictor of the perceived quality of Andersen's fairy tales

Y Bizzoni, T Peura, M Thomsen… - Journal of Data Mining …, 2022 - jdmdh.episciences.org
This article explores the sentiment dynamics present in narratives and their contribution to
literary appreciation. More specifically, we investigate whether a certain type of sentiment …

A multiscale theory for the dynamical evolution of sentiment in novels

J Gao, ML Jockers, J Laudun… - … , Economic and Socio …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work in literary sentiment analysis has suggested that shifts in emotional valence
may serve as a reliable proxy for plot movement in novels. The raw sentiment time series of …

[HTML][HTML] Fractality and variability in canonical and non-canonical English fiction and in non-fictional texts

M Mohseni, V Gast, C Redies - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study investigates global properties of three categories of English text: canonical fiction,
non-canonical fiction, and non-fictional texts. The central hypothesis of the study is that there …

Sentiment dynamics of success: Fractal scaling of story arcs predicts reader preferences

Y Bizzoni, T Peura, MR Thomsen, K Nielbo - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We explore the correlation between the sentiment arcs of HC Andersen's fairy tales and their
popularity, measured as their average score on the platform GoodReads. Specifically, we do …

[PDF][PDF] The fractality of sentiment arcs for literary quality assessment: The case of Nobel laureates

Y Bizzoni, P Moreira, MR Thomsen… - Journal of Data …, 2023 - jdmdh.episciences.org
In the few works that have used NLP to study literary quality, sentiment and emotion analysis
have often been considered valuable sources of information. At the same time, the idea that …

Multifractal analysis of sentence lengths in English literary texts

I Grabska-Gradzińska, A Kulig, J Kwapień… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
This paper presents analysis of 30 literary texts written in English by different authors. For
each text, there were created time series representing length of sentences in words and …

A survey on sentiment and emotion analysis for computational literary studies

E Kim, R Klinger - arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03137, 2018 - arxiv.org
Emotions are a crucial part of compelling narratives: literature tells us about people with
goals, desires, passions, and intentions. Emotion analysis is part of the broader and larger …

Quantifying origin and character of long-range correlations in narrative texts

S Drożdż, P Oświȩcimka, A Kulig, J Kwapień… - Information …, 2016 - Elsevier
In natural language using short sentences is considered efficient for communication.
However, a text composed exclusively of such sentences looks technical and reads boring …

Text emotion classification system based on multifractal methods

R Zhang, C Jia, J Wang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
Emotion classification is an attractive research, emotion classification based on machine
learning has broad application prospects in the field of computer. It is particularly important …