In this work, we visualized two aspects of narrative structure: character interactions and relative emotional trajectory. We performed the analysis for three different books: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. We visualize character relationships in a dynamic graph that displays the evolution of connections between characters throughout the book. We show emotional polarity and intensity in a color-coded sentiment bar plot that provides access to the original text. The emotional path of each character through the book can be traced by selecting a character, which highlights the sentences in the sentiment plot where this character appears. Our result is a visualization that provides an at-a-glance impression of the book as well as a method for exploring the plot details. We hope that this method of visual book summarization will be useful both for commercial applications such as book shopping or e-readers, as well as for succinct literary analysis.
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%1 bilenko2013visualization
%A Bilenko, Natalia Y.
%A Miyakawa, Asako
%D 2013
%K character dh fiction narrative sentiment visualization
%T Visualization of Narrative Structure. Analysis of sentiments and character interaction in fiction
%U http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-10-fa13/wiki/images/7/7b/AMNBpaper.pdf
%X In this work, we visualized two aspects of narrative structure: character interactions and relative emotional trajectory. We performed the analysis for three different books: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. We visualize character relationships in a dynamic graph that displays the evolution of connections between characters throughout the book. We show emotional polarity and intensity in a color-coded sentiment bar plot that provides access to the original text. The emotional path of each character through the book can be traced by selecting a character, which highlights the sentences in the sentiment plot where this character appears. Our result is a visualization that provides an at-a-glance impression of the book as well as a method for exploring the plot details. We hope that this method of visual book summarization will be useful both for commercial applications such as book shopping or e-readers, as well as for succinct literary analysis.
@techreport{bilenko2013visualization,
abstract = {In this work, we visualized two aspects of narrative structure: character interactions and relative emotional trajectory. We performed the analysis for three different books: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. We visualize character relationships in a dynamic graph that displays the evolution of connections between characters throughout the book. We show emotional polarity and intensity in a color-coded sentiment bar plot that provides access to the original text. The emotional path of each character through the book can be traced by selecting a character, which highlights the sentences in the sentiment plot where this character appears. Our result is a visualization that provides an at-a-glance impression of the book as well as a method for exploring the plot details. We hope that this method of visual book summarization will be useful both for commercial applications such as book shopping or e-readers, as well as for succinct literary analysis.
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author = {Bilenko, Natalia Y. and Miyakawa, Asako},
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institution = {University of California, Berkeley},
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keywords = {character dh fiction narrative sentiment visualization},
timestamp = {2018-10-19T11:17:58.000+0200},
title = {Visualization of Narrative Structure. Analysis of sentiments and character interaction in fiction},
url = {http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-10-fa13/wiki/images/7/7b/AMNBpaper.pdf},
year = 2013
}