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Automatic text classification techniques are applied to the problem of quantifying strength of characterization within plays, using a case study of the works of four sample playwrights that are freely available in machine-readable form. Strong characters are those whose speeches constitute homogeneous categories in comparison with other characters—their speeches are more attributable to themselves than to their play or their author.
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Vogel, C., Lynch, G. (2008). Computational Stylometry: Who’s in a Play?. In: Esposito, A., Bourbakis, N.G., Avouris, N., Hatzilygeroudis, I. (eds) Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70872-8_13
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