title: Mining the Trial Book
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In Franz Kafka's *The Trial* the protagonist finds himself in a grotesque situation. He is in complete helplessness against an opaque bureaucracy.

*Mining the Trial* is a slightly exaggerated adaptation of this book. Using algorithmic sentiment analysis, a computer linguistics method, all sentences of the book are examined for their apparently positive or negative features and rated on a scale between -1 and +1. In the next step, the entire book is sorted from positive to negative sentences according to this scale. The result is a body of text whose structure was built up through an algorithmic evaluation of its sentiment and whose original narration has been dissolved.

At the moment, *Mining the Trial* exists in three languages (Chinese, German and English) and two forms: as an online website where users carry out this sentiment-based rearrangement of each individual sentence themselves, and as books, sorted from the positive to the negative content of the sentences and vice-versa.

*Mining the Trial* started during Cqrrelations, a working session to "explore the world of digital non-relations, desnalysis, blurry categorisations and crummylations in the Big Data that shapes our daily reality and language" that was organised by Brussels-based arts organisation [Constant](https://constantvzw.org/) in January 2015.
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year_end: 2020-07-03
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