Predicting Literary Quality How Perspectivist Should We Be?

Yuri Bizzoni, Ida Marie Lassen, Telma Peura, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Kristoffer Nielbo

Abstract
Approaches in literary quality tend to belong to two main grounds: one sees quality as completely subjective, relying on the idiosyncratic nature of individual perspectives on the apperception of beauty; the other is ground-truth inspired, and attempts to find one or two values that predict something like an objective quality: the number of copies sold, for example, or the winning of a prestigious prize. While the first school usually does not try to predict quality at all, the second relies on a single majority vote in one form or another. In this article we discuss the advantages and limitations of these schools of thought and describe a different approach to reader’s quality judgments, which moves away from raw majority vote, but does try to create intermediate classes or groups of annotators. Drawing on previous works we describe the benefits and drawbacks of building similar annotation classes. Finally we share early results from a large corpus of literary reviews for an insight into which classes of readers might make most sense when dealing with the appreciation of literary quality.
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2022.nlperspectives-1.3
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP @LREC2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Gavin Abercrombie, Valerio Basile, Sara Tonelli, Verena Rieser, Alexandra Uma
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NLPerspectives
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European Language Resources Association
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20–25
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Yuri Bizzoni, Ida Marie Lassen, Telma Peura, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Kristoffer Nielbo. 2022. Predicting Literary Quality How Perspectivist Should We Be?. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP @LREC2022, pages 20–25, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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