Fractal scaling laws for the dynamic evolution of sentiments in Never Let Me Go and their implications for writing, adaptation and reading of novels

Q Hu, B Liu, J Gao, KL Nielbo, MR Thomsen - World Wide Web, 2021 - Springer
A good novel can often elicit from a reader strong sentiments similar to the moods, feelings,
and attitudes depicted in the novel. With the rapid progress in AI, sentiment-based arcs in …

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 …

Dynamic evolution of sentiments in Never Let Me Go: Insights from quantitative analysis and implications

Q Hu, B Liu, MR Thomsen, J Gao… - 2019 6th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

Correlations between GoodReads Appreciation and the Sentiment Arc Fractality of the Grimm brothers' Fairy Tales

Y Bizzoni, MR Thomsen, IMS Lassen… - … Conference, CHR 2022, 2022 - pure.au.dk
Despite their widespread popularity, fairy tales are often overlooked when studying literary
quality with quantitative approaches. We present a study on the relation between sentiment …

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 …

Comparative computational analysis of global structure in canonical, non-canonical and non-literary texts

M Mohseni, V Gast, C Redies - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10906, 2020 - arxiv.org
This study investigates global properties of literary and non-literary texts. Within the literary
texts, a distinction is made between canonical and non-canonical works. The central …

Multifractal analysis of Chinese literary and web novels

Y Liu, X Zhuo, X Zhou - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multifractal analysis of literary works, utilizing measures such as sentence length and word
length as time series, have revealed the prevalence of multifractal structures within these …