2013-10-04, 12:55
Taking a Fairy Tale's Emotional Temperature
Many emotions lie on the pages between "Once upon a time" and "happily ever after." Some are happy gems, while others are sure to provoke nightmares. So when you crack open a storybook, how are you to know what feelings you'll find? A new tool cuts out the guesswork by taking a story's "emotional temperature."
The data-mining tool was designed by a computer science researcher in Canada, who analyzed everything from the Brothers Grimm to Shakespeare in the digital Google Books Corpus. The
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Many emotions lie on the pages between "Once upon a time" and "happily ever after." Some are happy gems, while others are sure to provoke nightmares. So when you crack open a storybook, how are you to know what feelings you'll find? A new tool cuts out the guesswork by taking a story's "emotional temperature."
The data-mining tool was designed by a computer science researcher in Canada, who analyzed everything from the Brothers Grimm to Shakespeare in the digital Google Books Corpus. The
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...KaQIBi_7Y/