- 著者
- Hajime Murai
- 出版者
- Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
- 雑誌
- Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (ISSN:21887276)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.5, no.1, pp.4-21, 2020-11-20 (Released:2020-11-19)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
- 2
In recent years, there have been attempts to generate stories automatically by utilizing computers and various other kinds of information technology. However, it remains unclear how story sequences can be made to look natural and appear interesting. This study conducted a data description of 134 famous Japanese comic detective stories and listed 37 types of plot elements, 10 types of tricks, 9 types of criminal motives, and 10 types of relationships between victims and criminals, in order to realize a computational narratological analysis. Based on these parameters, eleven factors have been extracted through factor analysis. The structures of the plot transition networks varied according to the factors present in the detective stories. Therefore, an elaborate, human-like, and understandable creation of plot transitions can be enabled based on the detailed differences between plot transition networks.
- 著者
- Hajime Murai
- 出版者
- Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
- 雑誌
- Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (ISSN:21887276)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.3, no.1, pp.49-72, 2018-10-21 (Released:2018-10-22)
- 参考文献数
- 22
Although the literary structures employed in the Bible (chiasmus, concentric structures, and parallelism) are important for its interpretation, the ambiguity of these structures renders them problematic. In this paper, in order to establish an objective framework of evaluation for these structures, a quantitative analysis method is proposed. The target hypothesis of literary structures is the Parallel Literary Structure hypothesis about the hierarchical literary structure of the Bible. This hypothesis proposes that the literary structures in all books of the Bible have a parallel common system. Specifically, the validity of text divisions was evaluated based on divisions rendered in a number of extant Bible translations. Then, corresponding pericope pairs (a pericope is a small story unit in the Bible) that include various “common rare” words and phrases were counted, and the number of valid pairs was compared with the number of randomly constructed structures. From this analysis, statistical significances were extracted and the result strongly supports the hypothesis quantitatively.
- 著者
- Hajime Murai
- 出版者
- 日本デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (ISSN:21887276)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1, no.1, pp.44-57, 2015-09-02 (Released:2015-09-02)
- 参考文献数
- 11
To support the automatic semantic analysis of texts in the humanities, it is not sufficient to analyze words and evaluate word pairs, because it is necessary to process larger units, such as phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. This study proposes the introduction of intratextuality into a digital archive system. In the future, this method will be developed as the basis for semantic analysis of larger units. Classical literary structures that are used frequently in the Old and New Testaments were digitized as a case study. A literary structure data format for a relational database was also implemented. The literary structures of 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament were digitized. The total number of digitized literary structures was 1,507 and the elements of these structures comprised 7,715 pairs. These data were stored in a Java-based relational database system and a web-based viewer program for rhetorical structures was implemented as a JSP servlet. This web-based program will be combined with an existing digital archive system that can manage intertextuality data. The Java-based relational database system and the JSP servlet will facilitate numerical analyses of the intertextuality and intratextuality of digital archive systems of classical texts, thus making it much easier to conduct scientific analyses of the meanings of texts.