Discovering the encyclopaedic novel

A case study in automatically analysing Harry Mulisch’s The Discovery of Heaven (1992)

More information about this project is described in the abstract that was presented at the DHBenelux2016 conference in Belval, Luxembourg:

Van Wissen, Leon, Marieke van Erp, and Ben Peperkamp. "Discovering an Encyclopaedic Novel: a case study in automatically analysing Harry Mulisch’s The Discovery of Heaven (1992)."

Usage

• Open main.py and point to the correct dependencies (i.e. local version Spotlight, DBpedia Dump and parsed textfile)

Visualization

See visualization at http://kyoto.let.vu.nl/~vanerp/TheDiscoveryOfHeaven/

Dependencies

• Named Entity Recognition: DBpedia Spotlight
• Visualized by [InteractiveVis project] (http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/)
• Python3 packages:
• networkx
• matplotlib
• requests
• rdflib
• SPARQLWrapper