2 papers
cs.CL2026
Story Operators: Decomposing the Original Sequel Transformation in Embedding Space
W. Frederick Zimmerman
I treat a book as a point in a sentence-embedding space and a literary transformation as an operation on points. Given an original novel and its sequel, I ask what it takes, geomet…
cs.CL2026
Semantic Novelty at Scale: Narrative Shape Taxonomy and Readership Prediction in 28,606 Books
W. Frederick Zimmerman
I introduce semantic novelty--cosine distance between each paragraph's sentence embedding and the running centroid of all preceding paragraphs--as an information-theoretic measure…