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title = "Clustering of Novels Represented as Social Networks",
author = "Coll Adanay, Mariona and
Sporleder, Caroline",
journal = "Linguistic Issues in Language Technology",
volume = "12",
month = oct,
year = "2015",
publisher = "CSLI Publications",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2015.lilt-12.4",
abstract = "Within the field of literary analysis, there are few branches as confusing 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 indicative 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 representation. We perform clustering on the vectors and analyze the resulting clusters in terms of genre and authorship.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Clustering of Novels Represented as Social Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2015.lilt-12.4) (Coll Adanay & Sporleder, LILT 2015)
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