Can Sentiment Analysis be used to map the emotional arcs of 1,700 stories and then reveal common themes? YES!

Awesome study from researchers at the University of Vermont...they used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives”. Now that this possible, imagine the possibilities?  What else can textual mining reveal in terms of patterns?   #datascience #nlp

For full article: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic-emotional-arcs-of-storytelling/?utm_content=buffere4eb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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