A quantitative analysis of gender in fictional characters
R. Marx, 2019
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Introduction
2
Methods
2.1
Book corpus
2.2
Natural language processing
2.3
Differential expression
3
Results - Genre
3.1
Author gender by genre
3.2
Character gender by genre
3.3
Classifying author gender using genre tags
3.4
Character frequency
4
Results - Differential Expression
5
Results - EMPATH scores
6
Supplemental - differential expression
6.1
Differentially expressed words for female characters
6.2
Differentially expressed words for male characters
6.3
Differentially expressed words for female authors
6.4
Differentially expressed words for male authors
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Supplemental data - tag frequency
8
References
A quantitative analysis of gender in fictional characters
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Supplemental data - tag frequency
Figure 7.1: Goodreads.com tag frequency by author gender