Kinship Relations in the Russian Drama: a Quantitative Approach

Student: Berseneva Margarita

Supervisor: Daniil Skorinkin

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

In recent years, the digitalisation is well under way, the amount of digital literature and special literary corpora is rising, too. All these things make it available to apply the computational approach to digital literary data. There are researchers from all over the world who are interested in extracting social networks and analysing them in different ways. My research is also connected with network analysis made on Russian Drama Corpora (RusDraCor). RusDraCor now contains 210 Russian-language plays. Their publication dates are from the 1740s to the 1940s. All plays in RusDraCor are stored in special TEI format. This paper describes how I prepare, extract and then analyse the data in terms of kinship and social relations.

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