Can We Infer Book Classification by Blurbs

Valentina Poggioni, Valentina Franzoni, Fabiana Zollo · IIR eBooks · 2014

The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of an automated classification of books in the social network Zazie by means of the lexical analysis of book blurbs. A supervised learning approach is used to determine if a correlation between the characteristics of a book blurb and the emotional icons associated to the book by the Zazie’s users exists.

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