Yuri Bizzoni

Some steps towards the generation of diachronic WordNets

2019 · DSpace repository (University of Tartu)

We apply hyperbolic embeddings to trace the dynamics of change of conceptualsemantic relationships in a large diachronic scientific corpus (200 years).Our focus is on emerging scientific fields and the increasingly specialized terminology establishing around them.Reproducing …

Modeling Readers’ Appreciation of Literary Narratives Through Sentiment Arcs and Semantic Profiles

2023

Predicting literary quality and reader appreciation of narrative texts are highly complex challenges in quantitative and computational literary studies due to the fluid definitions of quality and the vast feature space that can be considered …

Good Reads and Easy Novels Readability and Literary Quality in a Corpus of US-published Fiction

2023 · DSpace repository (University of Tartu)

In this paper, we explore the extent to which readability contributes to the perception of literary quality as defined by two categories of variables: expert-based (e.g., Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award) and crowd-based (e.g., GoodReads, …