Combining Qualitative and Computational Approaches for Literary Analysis of Finnish Novels.
What can we learn from the classics of Finnish literature by using computational emotion analysis? This article addresses this question by examining how computational methods of sentiment analysis can be used for studying literary works in conjunction with a qualitative or more "traditional" approac...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 27 - 52 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
2025
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