This allowed us to take a systematic and wide look at a large corpus of texts, an approach which complements the narrower and deeper analysis performed by literary scholars and can provide evidence for or against some of their claims.
we described a high-precision method for detecting face-to-face conversations between two named characters in a novel, and showed that as the number of characters in a novel grows, so too do the cohesion, interconnectedness and balance of their social network.