Vad automatisk indexering och genreklassifikation kan tillföra ...

Svensk titel: Vad automatisk indexering och genreklassifikation kan
tillföra skönlitteraturen
Engelsk titel: What automatic indexing and genre classification can bring
to fiction
Författare: Karl Adam Claesson
Kollegium: Två
Färdigställt: 2006
Handledare: Kasimir Zdanowski
Abstract:
This thesis examines what automatic indexing and genre classification may bring to
fiction. The thesis studies five theorists of the subject to find out what the biggest
problems are concerning fiction indexing. The thesis also investigates which automatic
text analysis methods that can be effective for automatic indexing and genre classifying
fiction. To show that it is possible according to philosophy of language to index fiction,
in particular to automatically index it. Wittgenstein’s, Barthes’ and Ricoeur’s language
and fiction theories are presented and used to problemize the subject. Wittgenstein’s
theory is used to show that language finds its meaning in the context, Barthes’ to show
that the author is, metaphorically speaking, dead and Ricoeur’s to show that the meaning
of the texts uses the readers context to create itself. The thesis concludes that it is
probably possible to genre classify fiction, after both aboutness and style. Conversely is it
not possible to index fiction automatically after the fictions connective part.
Nyckelord: Indexering, automatisk indexering, genre,
genreklassificering, skönlitteratur