Sentiment Arcs in Manga: From the Page to Polarity Analysis
Sentiment analysis of literary texts is not new. In the past, for example, dramatic works by various authors have been examined to see how the sentiment of words develops over the course of a play. Similar approaches also exist for screenplays, where the dialogue of films is analyzed with regard to its emotional arc. However, such work first requires having the text in a form that can be readily analyzed. For dramas and screenplays, this is comparatively simple, since the text itself serves as the direct starting point. For comics, this is not so trivial. Because comics convey information not only through text but also through images, a simple text analysis is not sufficient here.
In this talk, I present an approach for creating a textual representation of a comic that reflects the original as accurately as possible. After that, we will look on the sentiment analysis of one manga story based on the textual representation created in this way.