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Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An attempt to measure the degree of novelty in character’s speech

Szemes, Botond ; Nagy, Mihály (2024)
Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An attempt to measure the degree of novelty in character’s speech.
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027395
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Item Type: Report
Type of entry: Primary publication
Title: Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An attempt to measure the degree of novelty in character’s speech
Language: English
Date: 28 May 2024
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Issue Number: 1
Series: CCLS2024 Conference Preprints
Series Volume: 3
Collation: 19 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00027395
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Abstract:

In the following, we develop a method to study dramas as information networks. We examine how innovative characters are in relation to each other, i.e. whether they tend to repeat the utterances of others or introduce new information to the discourse of the play. Our method captures the role of characters in this discourse, and through pairwise comparisons, we can also construct networks that represent character relationships in a new way compared to existing approaches. By examining some of Shakespeare’s plays, we also identify general patterns regarding the structural differences of the networks and gender roles in comedies and tragedies/non-comedies.

Uncontrolled Keywords: computational drama analysis, information theory, innovation, sentence embedding, Shakespeare
Status: Preprint
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-273952
Additional Information:

This paper has been submitted to the conference track of JCLS. It has been peer reviewed and accepted for presentation and discussion at the 3rd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies at Vienna, Austria, in June 2024.

Classification DDC: 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Digital Philology – Modern German Literary Studies
Date Deposited: 28 May 2024 07:51
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2024 13:35
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27395
PPN: 518965600
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