Two genre classification of Japanese literary works written by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa and Kenji Miyazawa based on word vectors

Abstract

Word vectors are applied various tasks in natural language processing. However, the potentiality of the word vectors of Japanese has not been discussed as much as those of English. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to classify the genre of modern Japanese literary works using characteristic features evaluated by the word vectors. The accuracy of the classification between novels and poetic works was 95%, and the one between novels and essays was 90%. The word vectors are applicable in the genre classification problem in modern Japanese literary works.