The whole definition of NLP is “Natural Language Processing”. Consequently, literature, as a realm related to language, naturally is convenient to take advantage of NLP technology development. My research focuses on discussing possibility of applying NLP technology on literature projects.
The book, Dream of Red Chamber is the greatest novel in Chinese literature history. I applied BERT, the revolutionary method based on attention mechanism, into analyzing the book. The result quantitatively supports the traditional literature claim. Furthermore, I also trained a model specifically aiming at Chinese novel, which has better performance than original BERT.