Cliche expressions in literary and genre novels

Code for the paper "Cliche expressions in literary and genre novels", presented at the Latech-CLfL 2018 workshop.

This repository is intended for documentation purposes, as the relevant data cannot be made publicly available.

Data used

• The Riddle of Literary Quality corpus of 401 novels and survey data; http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/
• Cliche expressions that formed the basis for the book ISBN: 978-94-004-0511-0; https://www.dathoorjemijnietzeggen.nl/
• Lassy small, Lassy large; http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/Lassy/
• Corpus Gesproken Nederlands (Spoken Dutch corpus); http://lands.let.ru.nl/cgn/

Python modules used

See requirements.txt. Install with pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Makefile overview

• cliche_queries.txt: Original file with cliches is converted to regular expressions (using regular expressions...) with sed script conv.sed
• runqueries: cliches are counted in novels by running each query on all the novels
• postprocess: produces HTML files, plots, and CSV files.

The lassyextract.sh and lassyngrams.sh scripts were used to extract a table of n-gram counts from the SONAR part of Lassy Large using Colibri-Core. Run them from the Lassy Large Data directory.

The rest of the analysis is done in the notebook.

Reference

@InProceedings{vancranenburgh2018cliche,
    author={van Cranenburgh, Andreas},
    title={Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels},
    year={2018},
    booktitle={Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL workshop},
    pages={34--43},
    url={http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-4504}
}