What is a character network, and what can count as a link between two characters?

A character network has characters as nodes and interactions as edges. The inspected sources use at least three edge rules: spoken exchange (Moretti, Elson), co-presence in a scene with dialogue (Agarwal/Weng), and broader co-occurrence; the Labatut-Bost survey lists five interaction definitions overall. Rules give different graphs (co-occurrence graphs are denser), and Moretti's own graphs were unweighted and undirected. For an outline, which rule to pick is a design choice; the sources do not name a best one. Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match). Under Amendment 11 the Labatut & Bost markers are not contradictory terms: the arXiv licence is a distribution grant to arXiv and '© acmlicensed' marks ACM's publication licence; neither grants reuse. Record: no open reuse licence; short quotes only. Reclassify the Labatut licence item from rights conflict to rights record (no open reuse licence). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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