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Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
Analyzing Film Adaptation through Narrative Alignment
Tanzir Pial, Shahreen Salim, Charuta Pethe +2
Novels are often adapted into feature films, but the differences between the two media usually require dropping sections of the source text from the movie script. Here we study thi…
GNAT: A General Narrative Alignment Tool
Tanzir Pial, Steven Skiena
Algorithmic sequence alignment identifies similar segments shared between pairs of documents, and is fundamental to many NLP tasks. But it is difficult to recognize similarities be…
STONYBOOK: A System and Resource for Large-Scale Analysis of Novels
Charuta Pethe, Allen Kim, Rajesh Prabhakar +2
Books have historically been the primary mechanism through which narratives are transmitted. We have developed a collection of resources for the large-scale analysis of novels, inc…
Prosody Analysis of Audiobooks
Charuta Pethe, Bach Pham, Felix D Childress +2
Recent advances in text-to-speech have made it possible to generate natural-sounding audio from text. However, audiobook narrations involve dramatic vocalizations and intonations b…
Accelerating Personalized PageRank Vector Computation
Zhen Chen, Xingzhi Guo, Baojian Zhou +2
Personalized PageRank Vectors are widely used as fundamental graph-learning tools for detecting anomalous spammers, learning graph embeddings, and training graph neural networks. T…