Algorithm Tracks Literary Emotion in Shakespeare, the Brothers Grimm | Singularity Hub
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the paper compared fairy tales to novels and found, on average, fairy tales have a higher density of emotive words, even as they vary more around that mean. Further, fairy tales use more words with a positive emotional association than a negative association.
Such inquiries may seem useful only for a specific niche, but Mohammad thinks his system can objectively study big social questions too.
