Samothrakis, Spyridon and Fasli, Maria (2015) Emotional Sentence Annotation Helps Predict Fiction Genre. PLoS One, 10 (11). e0141922-e0141922. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141922
Samothrakis, Spyridon and Fasli, Maria (2015) Emotional Sentence Annotation Helps Predict Fiction Genre. PLoS One, 10 (11). e0141922-e0141922. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141922
Samothrakis, Spyridon and Fasli, Maria (2015) Emotional Sentence Annotation Helps Predict Fiction Genre. PLoS One, 10 (11). e0141922-e0141922. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141922
Abstract
Fiction, a prime form of entertainment, has evolved into multiple genres which one can broadly attribute to different forms of stories. In this paper, we examine the hypothesis that works of fiction can be characterised by the emotions they portray. To investigate this hypothesis, we use the work of fictions in the Project Gutenberg and we attribute basic emotional content to each individual sentence using Ekman’s model. A time-smoothed version of the emotional content for each basic emotion is used to train extremely randomized trees. We show through 10-fold Cross-Validation that the emotional content of each work of fiction can help identify each genre with significantly higher probability than random. We also show that the most important differentiator between genre novels is fear.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans; Emotions; Motion Perception; Motion Pictures |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2015 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:58 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/15399 |
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