History to Myths: Social Network Analysis for Comparison of Stories over Time

Clément Besnier


Abstract
We discuss on how related stories can be compared by their characters. We investigate character graphs, or social networks, in order to measure evolution of character importance over time. To illustrate this, we chose the Siegfried-Sigurd myth that may come from a Merovingian king named Sigiberthus. The Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga and the History of the Franks are the three resources used.
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2020.latechclfl-1.1
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Proceedings of the 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
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December
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2020
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Online
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Stefania DeGaetano, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
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LaTeCHCLfL
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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1–9
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.latechclfl-1.1
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Clément Besnier. 2020. History to Myths: Social Network Analysis for Comparison of Stories over Time. In Proceedings of the 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 1–9, Online. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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