Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts: From Psychology to Cinema and Literature

This book provides an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art AI language models and their applications in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. It highlights the complementary nature of AI-based and traditional approaches to textual analysis and showcases examples from various texts to illustrate the potential of AI technologies for dialoguing with textual characters and examining textual meaning coherence.

Format: Hardback
Length: 118 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume provides an accessible entry point into the realm of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, offering a platform for their utilization in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book delineates the potential of emerging technologies for textual analysis, which has traditionally relied on established approaches within the humanities. Neuman, Danesi, and Vilenchik contend that these diverse forms of analysis are, in fact, complementary, showcasing how AI-based perspectives resonate with similar theoretical and methodological currents in traditional approaches while also opening up new avenues for research. The volume showcases a diverse range of textual examples, encompassing novels, television shows, and films, to illustrate how the latest AI technologies can be employed for engaging in dialogue with textual characters and analyzing the coherence of textual meanings. By shedding light on the immense potential of AI language models to both augment and extend research on the interpretation of texts, this book will captivate scholars with an interest in cognitive approaches to the humanities, including literary studies, discourse analysis, media studies, film studies, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032363271