Putting to test the Affective-Aesthetic Potential

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Peter Boot, Marijn Koolen, Ole Mussmann, Carsten Schnober, Willem Van Hage, Joris van Zundert

Published: 2023, Last Modified: 02 Sept 2025DH 2023EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: We test the Aesthetic-Affective Potential (AAP), a word-embedding-based predictor for the perceived beauty of words. In a SentiArt context, AAP has also been shown to predict readers' liking of narrative passages. We investigate AAP and valence in the context of a large Dutch corpus of novels and their reviews.