@inproceedings{bizzoni-etal-2023-good,
title = "Good Reads and Easy Novels: Readability and Literary Quality in a Corpus of {US}-published Fiction",
author = "Bizzoni, Yuri and
Moreira, Pascale and
Dwenger, Nicole and
Lassen, Ida and
Thomsen, Mads and
Nielbo, Kristoffer",
editor = {Alum{\"a}e, Tanel and
Fishel, Mark},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "T{\'o}rshavn, Faroe Islands",
publisher = "University of Tartu Library",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.5",
pages = "42--51",
abstract = "In this paper, we explore the extent to which readability contributes to the perception of literary quality as defined by two categories of variables: expert-based (e.g., Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award) and crowd-based (e.g., GoodReads, WorldCat). Based on a large corpus of modern and contemporary fiction in English, we examine the correlation of a text{'}s readability with its perceived literary quality, also assessing readability measures against simpler stylometric features. Our results show that readability generally correlates with popularity as measured through open platforms such as GoodReads and WorldCat but has an inverse relation with three prestigious literary awards. This points to a distinction between crowd- and expert-based judgments of literary style, as well as to a discrimination between fame and appreciation in the reception of a book.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Good Reads and Easy Novels: Readability and Literary Quality in a Corpus of US-published Fiction
%A Bizzoni, Yuri
%A Moreira, Pascale
%A Dwenger, Nicole
%A Lassen, Ida
%A Thomsen, Mads
%A Nielbo, Kristoffer
%Y Alumäe, Tanel
%Y Fishel, Mark
%S Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
%D 2023
%8 May
%I University of Tartu Library
%C Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
%F bizzoni-etal-2023-good
%X In this paper, we explore the extent to which readability contributes to the perception of literary quality as defined by two categories of variables: expert-based (e.g., Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award) and crowd-based (e.g., GoodReads, WorldCat). Based on a large corpus of modern and contemporary fiction in English, we examine the correlation of a text’s readability with its perceived literary quality, also assessing readability measures against simpler stylometric features. Our results show that readability generally correlates with popularity as measured through open platforms such as GoodReads and WorldCat but has an inverse relation with three prestigious literary awards. This points to a distinction between crowd- and expert-based judgments of literary style, as well as to a discrimination between fame and appreciation in the reception of a book.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.5
%P 42-51
Markdown (Informal)
[Good Reads and Easy Novels: Readability and Literary Quality in a Corpus of US-published Fiction](https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.5) (Bizzoni et al., NoDaLiDa 2023)
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