Natasha Johnson
natashamarie330.bsky.social
Natasha Johnson
@natashamarie330.bsky.social
Cultural Analytics and NLP researcher
Unsurprising: Using longer words makes female authors more “literary”

Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors

For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction

doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’ll be presenting this work in **2 hours** at EMNLP’s Gather Session 3. Come by to chat about fanfiction, literary notions of similarity, long-context modeling, and consent-focused data collection!
Digital humanities researchers often care about fine-grained similarity based on narrative elements like plot or tone, which don’t necessarily correlate with surface-level textual features.

Can embedding models capture this? We study this in the context of fanfiction!
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Digital humanities researchers often care about fine-grained similarity based on narrative elements like plot or tone, which don’t necessarily correlate with surface-level textual features.

Can embedding models capture this? We study this in the context of fanfiction!
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM