The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning
What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studie...
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Bielefeld
Bielefeld University Press
01.10.2021
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1.: Introduction 2.1: Silver Age: 2.2: Genre in Digital Humanities: 2.3: Theory of Genre 3.1: Corpus of Novels of the Spanish Silver Age : 3.2: Metadata 3.3: Filtering the Corpus through Classification: 4.1: Grammatical, Lexical, Semantic, and Textual Annotation 4.2: Transformations of Lexical Data and Linguistic Annotation 5.1: Evaluation of Consistent Subgenres 5.2: Analysis of Labels of First Editions 5.3: The Case of Literary Fiction 6.1: Feature and Parameter Analysis 6.2: Identification of Hidden Subgenres 7.1: Classification of the Subgenres 7.2: Easy Genre, Difficult Genre: 8.: Discussion of Tripartite Graph for Genre 9.: Conclusion 10.: References 11.: Empirical Description through the Tripartite Graph Model Back Matter
- 5.3.3 Classification with Linguistic Features -- 5.3.4 Classification with External Metadata -- 5.3.5 Conclusions -- 6. Feature and Labels Selection -- 6.1 Feature and Parameter Analysis -- 6.1.1 Introduction -- 6.1.2 Feature Evaluation -- 6.1.3 Knowledge Extraction about Features -- 6.1.4 Parameters Evaluation -- 6.1.5 Conclusions -- 6.2 Identification of Hidden Subgenres -- 6.2.1 Introduction -- 6.2.2 Clustering in Stylometry -- 6.2.3 The Authorial Cue Problem when Clustering Literary Works -- 6.2.4 Evaluation of Parameters of Clustering with Linguistic Features -- 6.2.5 Comparison of Clusters and Evaluation with Metadata -- 6.2.6 Exploration of Meta-Cluster 0: Cluster 50 -- 6.2.7 Exploration Meta-Cluster 1: Cluster 217 -- 6.2.8 Discussion and Conclusions -- 7. Analysis of Subgenres -- 7.1 Classification of the Subgenres -- 7.1.1 Introduction -- 7.1.2 Subgenres as Classes: Multi-Class Classification from Modal Subgenre -- 7.1.3 Subgenres as Categories: Multi-Label Classification -- 7.1.4 Subgenres of Chapters -- 7.1.5 Subgenres as Linguistic and Literary Categories -- 7.1.6 Subgenres as Gradual Categories: Probabilities of Classification -- 7.1.7 Conclusions -- 7.2 Easy Genre, Difficult Genre: Why is there Variance in the Results of the Classification? -- 7.2.1 Introduction -- 7.2.2 Year of Publication -- 7.2.3 Number of Texts and Authors -- 7.2.4 Length of Novels -- 7.2.5 Canonicity of the Texts -- 7.2.6 Disagreement on Human Sources -- 7.2.7 Specificity of the Features -- 7.2.8 Correlation and Regression of Variables -- 7.2.9 Conclusions -- 8. Discussion of Tripartite Graph for Genre -- 8. Discussion of Tripartite Graph for Genre -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Characteristics of the Genres -- 8.3 Assembling the Graph Model for Genre -- 8.4 The Complete Tripartite Graph Model of Genre: Principles -- 8.5 Evaluation and Interpretation
- 8.6 Further Properties of the Tripartite Graph Model -- 8.7 Using the Tripartite Graph Model of Genre for Descriptions -- 8.8 Limitations of the Tripartite Graph Model for Genre -- 8.9 Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. References -- 10. References -- 11. Appendix -- 11. Empirical Description through the Tripartite Graph Model -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Realist novel -- 11.3 Social novel -- 11.4 Literary Fiction -- 11.5 Educational Novel -- 11.6 Philosophical Novel -- 11.7 Naturalist Novel -- 11.8 Historical Novel -- 11.9 Memoir -- 11.10 Bucolic Novel -- 11.11 Adventure Novel -- 11.12 Biographic Novel -- 11.13 Modernist Novel -- 11.14 Autobiographical Novel -- 11.15 Comedy Novel -- 11.16 Psychological Novel -- 11.17 Spiritual Novel -- 11.18 Fantasy Novel -- 11.19 War Novel -- 11.20 Dialogue Novel -- 11.21 Mono-Dialogue Novel -- 11.22 Costumbrist Novel -- 11.23 Nivola -- 11.24 Erotic Novel -- 11.25 Episodio Nacional -- 11.26 Poetic Novel -- 11.27 Greguería
- 3.2.9 Protagonist Metadata -- 3.2.10 Other Literary Metadata -- 3.2.11 Description of the Metadata of CoNSSA -- 3.3 Filtering the Corpus through Classification: Are all Texts in CoNSSA Novels? -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Corpus CORDE: Bag of Words and Metadata -- 3.3.3 CORDE 1860-1960 + CoNSSA -- 3.3.4 Binary Class Evaluation of Parameters -- 3.3.5 Multi-Class Evaluation of Parameters -- 3.3.6 Binary Prediction of Genre of Disputed Texts -- 3.3.7 Multi-Class Prediction of Genre of Disputed Texts -- 3.3.8 Conclusions and Modification of the Corpus -- 4. Feature Engineering: Linguistic Annotation and Transformation -- 4.1 Grammatical, Lexical, Semantic, and Textual Annotation -- 4.1.1 Introduction -- 4.1.2 Format of Annotation -- 4.1.3 Vocabulary and Punctuation -- 4.1.4 Grammatical Annotation -- 4.1.5 Entities -- 4.1.6 Semantic Annotation -- 4.1.7 Pragmatic and Textual Annotation -- 4.2 Transformations of Lexical Data and Linguistic Annotation -- 4.2.1 Introduction -- 4.2.2 Classic Transformation of Frequency of Features -- 4.2.3 Variants -- 5. Analysis of Subgenre Labels -- 5.1 Evaluation of Consistent Subgenres -- 5.1.1 Introduction -- 5.1.2 Data and Sources -- 5.1.3 Exploration of Sources -- 5.1.4 Exploration of Labels -- 5.1.5 Semantic Mapping of Labels, Description and Standardization trough Thema -- 5.1.6 Analysis of Inter-Source Agreement -- 5.1.7 Consistent Labels across Sources -- 5.1.8 Discussion and Proposal of Subgenre Palette -- 5.2 Analysis of Labels of First Editions -- 5.2.1 Description and Comparison of the Labels of the Covers -- 5.2.2 Classification Results Comparing First Publication Labels with other Sources -- 5.2.3 Association between Author and First Edition Label -- 5.2.4 Conclusions -- 5.3 The Case of Literary Fiction -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Description of Literary Fiction
- Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Research and Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 Silver Age: Genre, Novel, and Subgenre of the Novel -- 2.1.1 Introduction -- 2.1.2 Edad de Plata: Silver Age -- 2.1.3 Literary Genre and Novel in this Period -- 2.1.4 The Novel and its Borders -- 2.1.5 Realist and Naturalist Novel -- 2.1.6 Historical and Adventure Novels -- 2.1.7 Comedy Novels -- 2.1.8 Erotic Novels -- 2.1.9 Social Novels -- 2.1.10 One-Author-Labels: Nivola, Greguería, and Episodio Nacional -- 2.2 Genre in Digital Humanities: Methods, Features, and Data Representation -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 Genre in Computer Science -- 2.2.3 Genre in Digital Humanities -- 2.2.4 The Start of Genre Classification -- 2.2.5 Literary Genre in the Past Years -- 2.2.6 Conclusions and General Patterns -- 2.3 Theory of Genre -- 2.3.1 Basic Distinctions about Concepts and Definitions -- 2.3.2 Models of Genres -- 2.3.3 Macro-Models of Genres -- 2.3.4 Perspectives on Genres -- 2.3.5 Conclusions -- 3. Data: Texts and Metadata -- 3.1 Corpus of Novels of the Spanish Silver Age: CoNSSA and CoNSSA-canon -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Literary Corpora -- 3.1.3 Statistical Population of Authors -- 3.1.4 Statistical Population of Prose -- 3.1.5 Statistical Population of Novels -- 3.1.6 Definition of the Corpora: CoNSSA and CoNSSA-canon -- 3.1.7 Criteria for Selection -- 3.1.8 Digitization Steps -- 3.1.9 Description of the Corpus -- 3.1.10 Gender Distribution -- 3.1.11 Publication of Data -- 3.2 Metadata -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Metadata, Distant Reading, and Hypotheses Testing -- 3.2.3 Typology of Metadata -- 3.2.4 Editorial and Administrative Metadata -- 3.2.5 Descriptive Metadata -- 3.2.6 Author's Metadata -- 3.2.7 Text and Genre Metadata -- 3.2.8 Place and Period of the Action