@inproceedings{leonardi-etal-2024-hits,
    title = "{H}its or Misses? A Linguistically Explainable Formula for Fanfiction Success",
    author = "Leonardi, Giulio  and
      Brunato, Dominique  and
      Dell{'}orletta, Felice",
    editor = "Dell'Orletta, Felice  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Montemagni, Simonetta  and
      Sprugnoli, Rachele",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Pisa, Italy",
    publisher = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2024.clicit-1.58/",
    pages = "488--495",
    ISBN = "979-12-210-7060-6",
    abstract = "This study presents a computational analysis of Italian fanfiction, aiming to construct an interpretable model of successful writing within this emerging literary domain. Leveraging explicit features that capture both linguistic style and semantic content, we demonstrate the feasibility of automatically predicting successful writing in fanfiction and we identify a set of robust linguistic predictors that maintain their predictive power across diverse topics and time periods, offering insights into the universal aspects of engaging storytelling. This approach not only enhances our understanding of fanfiction as a genre but also offers potential applications in broader literary analysis and content creation."
}