Abstract
The purpose of this research is to identify the distinctive words and concepts that characterize a literary style of an author. The present study analyzes Shinich Hoshi's early 720 short-short stories in three methods; (i) Based on co-occurrence frequencies, the main vocabularies and their relationships are visualized as a network, (ii) Employing the TF/IDF measure, a set of words distinctive to a story is extracted, (iii) Conceptual categories of each distinctive word are analyzed according to a thesaurus definition of category levels. The paper argues constraint of the length of stories and its effects on the selection of words by the author.
