CS 422 Fall 2025 Semester Project: TropeSearch
This is a project in where we are creating a website where people can search for movies and tv shows based on the tropes that show up within them rather than the normal genre sorting.
Citation for TV Tropes Database Github Repo: https://github.com/dhruvilgala/tvtropes
@inproceedings{gala-etal-2020-analyzing, title = "Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes", author = "Gala, Dhruvil and Khursheed, Mohammad Omar and Lerner, Hannah and O{'}Connor, Brendan and Iyyer, Mohit", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science", month = nov, year = "2020", address = "Online", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.nlpcss-1.23", doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.23", pages = "212--217", abstract = "Popular media reflects and reinforces societal biases through the use of tropes, which are narrative elements, such as archetypal characters and plot arcs, that occur frequently across media. In this paper, we specifically investigate gender bias within a large collection of tropes. To enable our study, we crawl tvtropes.org, an online user-created repository that contains 30K tropes associated with 1.9M examples of their occurrences across film, television, and literature. We automatically score the {``}genderedness{''} of each trope in our TVTROPES dataset, which enables an analysis of (1) highly-gendered topics within tropes, (2) the relationship between gender bias and popular reception, and (3) how the gender of a work{'}s creator correlates with the types of tropes that they use.",