Character relationship mapping in major fictional works using text analysis methods
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2023-08-22
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Determining the relationships between characters is an important step in analyzing fictional works. Knowing character relationships can be useful when summarizing a work and may also help to determine authorship. In this paper, scores are generated for pairs of characters in fictional works, which can be used for classification tasks if characters have a relationship or not. An SVM is used to predict relationships between characters. Characters farther from the decision boundary often had stronger relationships than those closer to the boundary. The relative rank of the relationships may have additional literary and authorship related purposes.
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text analytics
character relationships
fictional works