Extracting Distinctive Vocabularies and Conceptual Categories from a Literary Text: A Quantitative Analysis of Hoshi Shinichi's Short-Short Stories

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  • SATO Chie
    Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • MURAI Hajime
    Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • TOKOSUMI Akifumi
    Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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  • 文学作品群の特徴的語彙と概念カテゴリーの抽出―星新一ショートショートの計量分析―
  • ブンガク サクヒングン ノ トクチョウテキ ゴイ ト ガイネン カテゴリー ノ チュウシュツ ホシ シン イチ ショートショート ノ ケイリョウ ブンセキ
  • Extracting Distinctive Vocabularies and Conceptual Categories from a Literary Text:
  • A Quantitative Analysis of Hoshi Shinichi's Short-Short Stories
  • -- 星新一ショートショートの計量分析 --

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The purpose of this research is to identify the distinctive words and concepts that characterize a literary style of an author. The present study analyzes Shinich Hoshi's early 720 short-short stories in three methods; (i) Based on co-occurrence frequencies, the main vocabularies and their relationships are visualized as a network, (ii) Employing the TF/IDF measure, a set of words distinctive to a story is extracted, (iii) Conceptual categories of each distinctive word are analyzed according to a thesaurus definition of category levels. The paper argues constraint of the length of stories and its effects on the selection of words by the author.

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