liwca.datasets.corpora.fetch_cmu_book_summaries

liwca.datasets.corpora.fetch_cmu_book_summaries()

Fetch the CMU Book Summary Corpus.

Plot summaries for ~16k books from Wikipedia and associated metadata.

Distributed by Carnegie Mellon University.

If used, cite: Bamman & Smith., 2013. New alignment methods for discriminative book summarization. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1305.1319

Returns:

DataFrame of the booksummaries.txt file.

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame