Adventure Time Large Scale Text Analysis

Tara, Trinity & Colin

DIGIT 210

Main Question

Can we identify which character is speaking based only on dialogue patterns? We would analyze 3–5 specific characters and compare their language use across episodes. Some patterns we could look at: word frequency, catchphrase detection, sentence length, emotional tone. We also want to figure out differences from the pilot episode all the way to the finale.

Some Background

We took season 1 and season 10 scripts from the 2010 show Adventure Time and transformed them into readable XML using REGEX and other technologies learned in class. We then analyzed them for character dialogue patterns.

BIGGEST DISCOVERY!!

With our Cytoscape models located on the analysis tab, we compared season 1's characters to season 10's final season.

Season 1

Dialogue is heavily concentrated around a few main characters:

Season 10 (Final Season)

Season 1: Main-character driven

Season 10: Ensemble cast