Fig. 1: An ‘ousiogram’ (Dodds et al., 2021) displaying power and danger scores for a subset of 14,499 unique words appearing in Terry Pratchett’s 41-book Discworld series.
From: A decomposition of book structure through ousiometric fluctuations in cumulative word-time
The example words overlaid map the indicated eight major directions of the compass of essential meaning. The full set of 20,006 words with power and danger scores is derived from the NRC VAD lexicon (Mohammad, 2018). These 14,499 unique words collectively account for 1,140,027 total words (types versus tokens). The histogram’s color map indicates the frequency of usage. The histogram, along with the marginal distributions for power and danger (right and top) presents the same safety bias observed across disparate corpora (Dodds et al., 2021).
