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From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Tracking Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales

arXiv 1309.5909 ↗First posted 23 Sep 2013cs.CLcited by 16

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Abstract (arXiv)

Today we have access to unprecedented amounts of literary texts. However, search still relies heavily on key words. In this paper, we show how sentiment analysis can be used in tandem with effective visualizations to quantify and track emotions in both individual books and across very large collections. We introduce the concept of emotion word density, and using the Brothers Grimm fairy tales as example, we show how collections of text can be organized for better search. Using the Google Books Corpus we show how to determine an entity's emotion associations from co-occurring words. Finally, we compare emotion words in fairy tales and novels, to show that fairy tales have a much wider range of emotion word densities than novels.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 3; 2022: 1; 2023: 8; 2024: 2; 2025: 0; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2023SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)cited by 41
  2. 2021Ethics Sheet for Automatic Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysiscited by 22
  3. 2021Emotion Dynamics in Movie Dialoguescited by 19
  4. 2023Evaluating Emotion Arcs Across Languages: Bridging the Global Divide in Sentiment Analysiscited by 16
  5. 2023Language and Mental Health: Measures of Emotion Dynamics from Text as Linguistic Biosocial Markerscited by 11
  6. 2024Fearful Falcons and Angry Llamas: Emotion Category Annotations of Arguments by Humans and LLMscited by 11
  7. 2024WorryWords: Norms of Anxiety Association for over 44k English Wordscited by 10
  8. 2022Frustratingly Easy Sentiment Analysis of Text Streams: Generating High-Quality Emotion Arcs Using Emotion Lexiconscited by 6
  9. 2023M-SENSE: Modeling Narrative Structure in Short Personal Narratives Using Protagonist's Mental Representationscited by 3
  10. 2023Prosody Analysis of Audiobookscited by 3
  11. 2021A Case Study of Deep Learning Based Multi-Modal Methods for Predicting the Age-Suitability Rating of Movie Trailerscited by 2
  12. 2023Utterance Emotion Dynamics in Children's Poems: Emotional Changes Across Agecited by 1
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  1. 2023Machine Learning and Statistical Approaches to Measuring Similarity of Political Partiescited by 0
  2. 2023Topic Bias in Emotion Classificationcited by 0
  3. 2026Semantic Novelty at Scale: Narrative Shape Taxonomy and Readership Prediction in 28,606 Bookscited by 0
  4. 2026Sentiment Analysis of German Sign Language Fairy Talescited by 0