The concept of nation in nineteenth-century Greek fiction through computational literary analysis

Fotini Koidaki, Despina Christou, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Grigorios Tsoumakas


Abstract
How the construction of national consciousness may be captured in the literary production of a whole century? What can the macro-analysis of the 19th-century prose fiction reveal about the formation of the concept of the nation-state of Greece? How could the concept of nationality be detected in literary writing and then interpreted? These are the questions addressed by the research that is published in this paper and which focuses on exploring how the concept of the nation is figured and shaped in 19th-century Greek prose fiction. This paper proposes a methodological approach that combines well-known text mining techniques with computational close reading methods in order to retrieve the nation-related passages and to analyze them linguistically and semantically. The main objective of the paper at hand is to map the frequency and the phraseology of the nation-related references, as well as to explore the phrase patterns in relation to the topic modeling results.
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2021.nlp4dh-1.9
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities
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December
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2021
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NIT Silchar, India
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Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
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NLP4DH
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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75–84
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Fotini Koidaki, Despina Christou, Katerina Tiktopoulou, and Grigorios Tsoumakas. 2021. The concept of nation in nineteenth-century Greek fiction through computational literary analysis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pages 75–84, NIT Silchar, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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