Understanding Hollywood through Dialogues
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Movies are a huge part of most of our lives. They reflect, distort and influence how our society works. The systematic bias against female and other minority characters and actors in Hollywood has been a hot topic for a while now. However, there has been very little quantitative analysis for this debate. Embodying Silicon Valley’s zeal for data-driven problem solving, we explored a corpus of movie conversations and memorable quotes to computationally learn about movies and analyze the differences in movie dialogues uttered by female vs male characters using deep learning and natural language processing.
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