Dr Yuri Bizzoni (Aarhus University) will talk about: Computational Criticism: Quantitative Models of Great Literature. 

Abstract: How can we measure literary quality computationally? Drawing on recent work in sentiment modeling, stylistic analysis, and classification approaches, this talk explores how emotional arcs, textual complexity, and reader reception metrics can serve as proxies for perceived quality. Our work demonstrates that different quality categories, canonical, popular, or prize-winning, exhibit distinct computational profiles.