Wilkens et al. present methods for measuring character mobility in English fiction. Diachronically analyzing 13k+ books (1789-2000), they find that characters in fiction move less and follow more formulaic paths than in nonfiction. doi.org/10.48694/jcl...#LiteraryMobility#CLS#Fiction#English
The representation of mobility in literary narratives has important implications for the cultural understanding of human movement and migration. In this paper, we introduce novel methods for measuring...
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re looking for, but we have compared various distance metrics on doc2vec embeddings (among many other things) in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Computational thematics: comparing algorithms for clustering the genres of literary fiction
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Another possibility: it does have many thousands of citations, but only a fraction of old papers were digitized (common problem with historical data) and thus Google doesn’t see them
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Abstract This article presents a set of standardised corpora of poetry comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenia...
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