Automated genre classification in literature
dc.contributor.author | Jordan, Emily | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-25T21:47:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-25T21:47:13Z | |
dc.date.graduationmonth | May | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04-25 | |
dc.date.published | 2014 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines automated genre classification in literature. The approach described uses text based comparison of book summaries to examine if word similarity is a feasible method for identifying genre types. Genres help users form impressions of what form a text will take. Knowing the genre of a literary work provides librarians, information scientists, and other users of a text collection with a summative guide to its form, its possible content, and what its members are about without having to peruse individual topic titles. This makes automatically generating genre labels a potentially useful tool in sorting unmarked text collections or searching the web. This thesis provides a brief overview of the problems faced by researchers wishing to automate genre classification as well as the current work in the field. My own methodology will also be discussed. I implemented two basic methods for labeling genre. The results collected using them will be covered, as well as future work and improvements to the project that I wish to implement. | en_US |
dc.description.advisor | William Hsu | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Computing and Information Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17578 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Kansas State University | en |
dc.subject | Genre | en_US |
dc.subject | Automated genre classification | en_US |
dc.subject | Labeling | en_US |
dc.subject | Automated | en_US |
dc.subject | Classification | en_US |
dc.subject.umi | Computer Science (0984) | en_US |
dc.subject.umi | Library Science (0399) | en_US |
dc.title | Automated genre classification in literature | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |