Weimer, Anna Mareike ; Barth, Florian ; Dönicke, Tillmann ; Gödeke, Luisa ; Varachkina, Hanna ; Holler, Anke ; Sporleder, Caroline ; Gittel, Benjamin (2022)
The (In-)Consistency of Literary Concepts. Operationalising, Annotating and Detecting Literary Comment.
In: Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 1 (1)
doi: 10.48694/jcls.90
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Abstract
This paper explores how both annotation procedures and automatic detection (i.e. classifiers) can be used to assess the consistency of textual literary concepts. We developed an annotation tagset for the ‘literary comment’ – a frequently used but rarely defined concept – and its subtypes (interpretative comment, attitude comment and metanarrative/metafictional comment) and trained a multi-output and a binary classifier. The multi-output classifier shows F-scores of 28% for attitude comment, 36% for interpretative comment and 48% for meta comment, whereas the binary classifier achieves F-scores up to 59%. Crucially, both our annotation and the automatic classification struggle with the same subtypes of comment, although annotation and classification follow completely different procedures. Our findings suggest an inconsistency in the overall literary concept ‘comment’ and most prominently the subtypes ‘attitude comment’ and ‘interpretative comment’. As a best-practice-example, our approach illustrates that the contribution of Digital Humanities to Literary Studies may go beyond the automatic recognition of literary phenomena.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2022 |
| Creators: | Weimer, Anna Mareike ; Barth, Florian ; Dönicke, Tillmann ; Gödeke, Luisa ; Varachkina, Hanna ; Holler, Anke ; Sporleder, Caroline ; Gittel, Benjamin |
| Type of entry: | Bibliographie |
| Title: | The (In-)Consistency of Literary Concepts. Operationalising, Annotating and Detecting Literary Comment |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Place of Publication: | Darmstadt |
| Publisher: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
| Volume of the journal: | 1 |
| Issue Number: | 1 |
| Collation: | 25 Seiten |
| DOI: | 10.48694/jcls.90 |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores how both annotation procedures and automatic detection (i.e. classifiers) can be used to assess the consistency of textual literary concepts. We developed an annotation tagset for the ‘literary comment’ – a frequently used but rarely defined concept – and its subtypes (interpretative comment, attitude comment and metanarrative/metafictional comment) and trained a multi-output and a binary classifier. The multi-output classifier shows F-scores of 28% for attitude comment, 36% for interpretative comment and 48% for meta comment, whereas the binary classifier achieves F-scores up to 59%. Crucially, both our annotation and the automatic classification struggle with the same subtypes of comment, although annotation and classification follow completely different procedures. Our findings suggest an inconsistency in the overall literary concept ‘comment’ and most prominently the subtypes ‘attitude comment’ and ‘interpretative comment’. As a best-practice-example, our approach illustrates that the contribution of Digital Humanities to Literary Studies may go beyond the automatic recognition of literary phenomena. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | literary theory, narratology, commentary, operationalisation, annotation, supervised machine learning |
| Additional Information: | Urspr. Konferenzveröffentlichung/Originally conference publication: 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, 01.-02.06.2022, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Classification DDC: | 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism |
| Divisions: | 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Digital Philology – Modern German Literary Studies 02 Department of History and Social Science 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2024 12:49 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 07:09 |
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