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The (weird) distributions of function words across novels

Last week I looked at some of the clusters of words that fluctuate together across narrative time in the Lab’s corpus of ~27k American novels. A lot of these are pretty semantically “legible,” in the sense that it’s not hard

David McClure August 10, 2017April 9, 2018 experiments Read more

A hierarchical cluster of words across narrative time

I wanted to pick back up quickly with that list of the 500 most “non-uniform” words at the end of the last post about word distributions across narrative time in the American novel corpus. Before, I just put these into

David McClure July 31, 2017August 1, 2017 experiments Read more

Distributions of words across narrative time in 27,266 novels

Over the course of the last few months here at the Literary Lab, I’ve been working on a little project that looks at the distributions of individual words inside of novels, when averaged out across lots and lots of texts.

David McClure July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 experiments Read more

How many novels have been published in English? (An Attempt)

Not for the first time, I find myself wanting to know how big the field of the novel is. Granted, finding the precise number of novels published in English is impossible. And even if we had an exact figure, the

Erik Fredner March 14, 2017 experiments Read more
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