How does a computer program read a novel? Jessica Griggs spoke to Jon Adams to find out
CAN literary criticism ever be considered a science? Perhaps computer programs that can read and interpret literature will provide the answer, an idea that Jon Adams has been exploring. He spoke at the London School of Economics’s Space for Thought Literary Festival this month.
You fed the novel The Kilburn Social Club by Robert Hudson into a text analysis program. Why?
I wanted to see how a computer program that is usually used to analyse and summarise factual texts such as government reports…
