Automatically Assessing Whether a Text Is Cliched, with Applications to Literary Analysis
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Clichés, as trite expressions, are predominantly multiword expressions, but not all MWEs are clichés. We conduct a preliminary examination of the problem of determining how clichéd a text is, taken as a whole, by comparing it to a reference text with respect to the proportion of more-frequent n-grams, as measured in an external corpus. We find that more-frequent n-grams are over-represented in clichéd text. We apply this finding to the “Eumaeus” episode of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which literary scholars believe to be written in a deliberately clichéd style.
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