Color Me Intrigued: Quantifying Usage of Colors in Fiction

01/09/2023
by   Siyan Li, et al.
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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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