Hello! How might I find out how often a character’s name appears in a book compared to another character? For example, if I wanted to see how often the name “Daisy” appears in the Great Gatsby as compared to the name “Gatsby”? I have tried WordCount but that doesn’t work so far. Thanks for any help…

Try WordCounts instead of WordCount. For instance, if myGatsby is the variable holding the text of the book as a string, then you could use WordCounts[DeleteStopwords[myGatsby]] which produces an association whose keys are the words and whose values are their frequencies. In the copy I downloaded …

Start with StringPosition and work from there. Take a look at the first half of [image] Tracking a Descent to Savagery with the Wolfram Language: Plotting Sentiment... Analysis of the text from Lord of the Flies. Timeline of character appearance, also tone and sentiment analysis. Comput…

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Finding character name frequency in books using Mathematica?

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Vitaliyk (Vitaliy Kaurov) July 10, 2021, 7:35pm 4

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I recommend searching this forum, documentation, Wolfram blogs and other sites. There is a lot of useful information already published.

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