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Emotion Arc and Character Arc Analysis and Comparison in Fictional Narratives

The notebooks show the code to generate and visualise the Emotion Arcs and Character Arcs of Fictional Narratives for the novels found on Project Gutenberg. The novels used as the dataset are shown in the table below:

Book ID Title
486 Ozma of Oz
420 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
485 The Road to Oz
956 Tik-Tok of Oz
957 The Scarecrow of Oz
958 Rinkitink in Oz
960 The Tin Woodman of Oz
419 The Magic of Oz
961 Glinda of Oz

Emotion Arc

Emotion Arc generation was researched in Reagan and Dodds (2016).

Character Arc

The pipeline for Character Arc generation was researched in Brahman and Chaturvedi (2020) and Elsner (2012). Information related to Named Entity and Coreference Resolution for resolving multiple entities was presented by Duval and De L ́es ́eleuc (2020).

References

[1] Mitchell L. Kiley D. Danforth C.M. Reagan, A.J. and P.S. Dodds (2016). The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes. EPJ Data Sci. 5, 31 (2016).

[2] Faeze Brahman and Snigdha Chaturvedi (2020). Modeling protagonist emotions for emotion-aware storytelling.

[3] Micha Elsner (2012). Character-based kernels for novelistic plot structure. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 634–644.

[4] Alexandre Duval and Ga ̈el De L ́es ́eleuc (2020). Novel comprehension via a dynamic social network of characters.

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