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Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction

Svenja Simone Guhr1,2, Huijun Mao2, Fengyi Lin2, Alexander J. Sherman2, Mark Algee-Hewitt2

1Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 2Literary Lab, Stanford University, USA

This study explores scene change detection in 20th-century US-American romance fiction using manual annotations and automated methods. Manually annotated novels build the training data for fine-tuning an English BERT USE model, yielding promising preliminary results for automated text segmentation in computational literary studies.

Session Details:

LP-22: Spatial Analysis for Literature, Fiction and Travel Writing
Time: 17/July/2025: 2:00pm-3:30pm · Location: Aud B3 (TB)