Telling Stories: Analyzing Text to Understand Personality, Social behavior, and Narratives

Опубликовано 14 сентября 2018, 18:06

Pronouns, prepositions, articles, and other short function words have traditionally been relegated to STOP word status in the AI world. Dozens of studies are summarized pointing to the value of function words in understanding people's thinking styles, social interactions, emotional states, honesty, status, and a broad array of behaviors. Ultimately, function words can tell us how people are paying attention and how they are connecting with their audience. Recently, my lab has found reliable patterns of function word use that underlie stories and other types of narratives. The ways most stories are constructed reveal the changing social relationships among the author, the audience, and the story's characters.

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