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Color Me Intrigued: Quantifying Usage of Colors in Fiction

Computation and Language 2023-01-10 v1

Abstract

We present preliminary results in quantitative analyses of color usage in selected authors' works from LitBank. Using Glasgow Norms, human ratings on 5000+ words, we measure attributes of nouns dependent on color terms. Early results demonstrate a significant increase in noun concreteness over time. We also propose future research directions for computational literary color analytics.

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@article{arxiv.2301.03559,
  title  = {Color Me Intrigued: Quantifying Usage of Colors in Fiction},
  author = {Siyan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03559},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted into the Creative AI Across Modalities workshop at AAAI2023