Extraction of Stylistic Features in Romance Novels Using Factor Analysis

Abstract

　In order to automatically generate high-quality stories, it is necessary to clarify the narrative structure and stylistic characteristics of each story type. In this study, we attempted to clarify the stylistic characteristics of the romance genre through factor analysis of full-length romance novels. As a result, it was confirmed that the characteristics of the descriptions of the two emotions of ”like”and ”sad”differed depending on the gender of the characters, such as the descriptions in the beginning of the story for female characters and the descriptions in the end of the story for male characters, which characterized the romance genre.