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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: The Classification of Fiction: The Development of a System Based on Theoretical Principles Abstract: This thesis assumes that established and experimental semantic and syntactic subject analysis techniques can be brought to bear on analyzing fiction documents for the purposes of information retrieval. The thesis: (1) analyzes standard methods of classifying fiction; (2) reviews previous fiction classification theories and systems and uses the systems to classify a novel; (3) analyzes "fictional warrant", attempts to analyze "critical warrant", and identifies special problems that arise from identification of anomalous, fuzzy and/or ambiguous data in fiction; (4) develops a theoretical framework for fiction analysis containing four fiction-specific major data elements ("Characters", "Events", "Spaces" and "Times") and one general data element ("Other"); (5) develops a model for an experimental online fiction analysis system (EFAS) based on the theoretical framework and containing techniques for handling anomalus, fuzzy, and/or ambiguous fictional data; and (6) applies EFAS to 9 novels that were used as examples of novels containing anomalous, uncertain and/or ambiguous data and to the 10 novels that most recently won the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. |
MPACT Scores for Clare BeghtolA = 1 Advisors and Advisees Graph |