Toward automatic classification for novels using kansei keywords in book reviews

Abstract

　Most of the cases, the novels are not given the subject headings. Consequently, the novels have been classified based only on periodizations, languages or authors, but done based rarely on the subjects. In recent years, some research has been done in which the classification of the novels using kansei keywords was tried, but these research were only experimental level since the classification using kansei keywords cannot apply to a large number of novels. The purpose of this research is to examine the methods of classification using the keywords in online bookreviews which are rapidly increasing on the Webs. The result of the classification done by this method gave good agreement with the one of the classification based on kansei keywords given manually.