Inter-Sense: An Investigation of Sensory Blending in Fiction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09710v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 03:25:26 GMT
• Title: Inter-Sense: An Investigation of Sensory Blending in Fiction
• Authors: Roxana Girju and Charlotte Lambert
• Abstract summary: This study reports on the semantic organization of English sensory descriptors of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell in a large corpus of over 8,000 fiction books. We introduce a large-scale text data-driven approach based on distributional-semantic word embeddings to identify and extract these descriptors. The findings are relevant for research on concept acquisition and representation, as well as for applications that can benefit from a better understanding of perceptual spaces of sensory experiences.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This study reports on the semantic organization of English sensory descriptors of the five basic senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell in a large corpus of over 8,000 fiction books. We introduce a large-scale text data-driven approach based on distributional-semantic word embeddings to identify and extract these descriptors as well as analyze their mixing interconnections in the resulting conceptual and sensory space. The findings are relevant for research on concept acquisition and representation, as well as for applications that can benefit from a better understanding of perceptual spaces of sensory experiences, in fiction, in particular, and in language in general.

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