@article{coll-adanay-sporleder-2015-clustering,
    title = "Clustering of Novels Represented as Social Networks",
    author = "Coll Adanay, Mariona  and
      Sporleder, Caroline",
    journal = "Linguistic Issues in Language Technology",
    volume = "12",
    number = "4",
    month = oct,
    year = "2015",
    publisher = "CSLI Publications",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2015.lilt-12.4/",
    abstract = "Within the field of literary analysis, there are few branches as confusing as that of genre theory. Literary criticism has failed so far to reach a consensus on what makes a genre a genre. In this paper, we examine the degree to which the character structure of a novel is indicative of the genre it belongs to. With the premise that novels are societies in miniature, we build static and dynamic social networks of characters as a strategy to represent the narrative structure of novels in a quantifiable manner. For each of the novels, we compute a vector of literary-motivated features extracted from their network representation. We perform clustering on the vectors and analyze the resulting clusters in terms of genre and authorship."
}