Jointly Learning Author and Annotated Character N-gram Embeddings: A Case Study in Literary Text
Suraj Maharjan, Deepthi Mave, Prasha Shrestha, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Instituto Nacional de Astrofısica Optica y Electronica, Puebla, Mexico, Fabio A. González, Thamar Solorio · 2019
An author's way of presenting a story through his/her writing style has a great impact on whether the story will be liked by readers or not.In this paper, we learn representations for authors of literary texts together with representations for character n-grams annotated with their functional roles.We train a neural character ngram based language model using an external corpus of literary texts and transfer learned representations for use in downstream tasks.We show that augmenting the knowledge from external works of authors produces results competitive with other style-based methods for book likability prediction, genre classification, and authorship attribution.