Can Machines Read (Literature)?
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/8511Parole chiave:
Distant Reading, Surface Reading, Close Reading, Reader response criticism, Artificial IntelligenceAbstract
In questo articolo vengono proposte delle riflessioni sul distant reading in quanto metodo al momento tra i più favoriti sia nella ricerca sia nell'insegnamento della letteratura, riflessioni che si concentrano sul rapporto che il distant reading intrattiene con altri due concetti collegati, insieme alle relative interrelazioni, ossia il close e il surface reading. Il trattamento teorico del distant reading proposto in questa sede mostra i motivi per cui è strettamente legato al machine reading (parte dell'intelligenza artificiale), prestando una particolare attenzione al ruolo del lettore e sostenendo infine come il campo di studi noto come Digital Literary Studies possa trarre vantaggio dando una maggiore attenzione ai processi "naturali" di lettura effettuati dai singoli individui.
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