Color Me Intrigued: Quantifying Usage of Colors in Fiction

Siyan Li

Keywords: Literary analysis, word embeddings, colors

Abstract:

We present preliminary results in quantitative analyses of color usage in selected authors’ works from LitBank. Using
Glasgow Norms, human ratings on 5000+ words, we measure attributes of nouns dependent on color terms. Early results
demonstrate a significant increase in noun concreteness over time. We also propose future research directions for computational literary color analytics.

Submission Type: archival

Presentation Type: onsite

Presenter: Siyan Li

Community Implementations: [ 1 code implementation](https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:2301.03559/code)