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This paper consists of a technique that helps to build a well-structured character interaction network from plays and novels. In addition, the resulting network describes the leading characters along with their gender. Moreover, the network analyzes the gender of the central characters to the plots preferred by the author. We propose a databank called Novel and Plot Data Bank (NPDB) to store the relevant information by computing informative properties of the resulting network.
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Mandal, J.K., Halder, S.K., Kumar, A. (2021). Analysis of Structure and Plots of Characters from Plays and Novels to Create Novel and Plot Data Bank (NPDB). In: Mandal, J.K., Mukhopadhyay, S., Unal, A., Sen, S.K. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Software Architecture and Computational Systems. Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4301-9_18
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