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The study targets automated theme classification using zero-shot and sentence-embedding plus supervised models, character interaction network construction via entity extraction and network analysis, and dialogue sentiment and exploratory lexical patterns. It also designs conversational AI support and a Gradio-based interactive application, showing how transformer-based linguistic methods can convert episode text into media analytics, recommendations, and interpretable character dynamics.","My Iowa State University Creative Component Title Page:  \nby  \nChaithanya Machireddy  \nA Creative Component submitted to the graduate faculty  \nIn partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of  \nMASTER OF SCIENCE  \nProgram of study: Management Information Systems  \nProgram of study committee:  \nTownsend Anthony, Major Professor  \nThe student author, whose presentation of the scholarship herein was approved by the program of study committee, is solely responsible for the content of this creative component. The Graduate College ensures this creative component is globally accessible and will not permit alterations after a degree is conferred.  \nIowa State University Ames, Iowa  \n2025  \nCopyright © Chaithanya Machireddy, 2025. All rights reserved.  \nMIS5990  \nANALYSIS OF THE FRIENDS TV SERIES USING NLP AND MACHINE LEARNING  \n1. Introduction  \n“Friends”, which aired from 1994 to 2004, is often hailed as one of the most influential sitcoms in television history. Its unique blend of character-driven storytelling and clever humor has left a lasting impression on pop culture. The show showcased relatable friendship and romantic entanglements,and introduced witty dialogue and memorable catchphrases that have become part of everyday conversation.  \nIn recent years, the rise of digital media and advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have sparked interest in analyzing television scripts. Scholars have recognized the potential of NLP techniques to delve into various aspects of media content, allowing for amore nuanced understanding of themes, character interaction, and audience engagement (Hirschberg & Manning, 2015; Juradsky & Martin, 2023) .  \nWith breakthroughs in transformer-based models, such as BERT, ROBERTa, and BART, researchers now have powerful tools to explore the subtleties of language. These models excel at analyzing dialogue-rich content, which is essential for sitcoms like “Friends”, where character dynamics and narrative nuances are key to the storytelling process (Devin et as., 2019; Liu et al., 2019; Lewis et al., 2020; Reimers & Gurevych, 2019). Automating the analysis of episode transcripts and subtitles helps overcome the challenges posed by traditional manual content analysis, paving the way for deeper insights (Kowsari et al., 2019) .  \nThis project utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning techniques to analyze the television show “Friends” using subtitle corpora and transcript data. The focus area include:  \n● Theme Classification through zero-shot, sentence embedding model, and supervised learning models (Lewis et al., 2020) .  \n● Character interaction network analysis (Wolf et al., 2020) .  \n● Dialogue sentiment analysis (Cambria & white, 2014) .  \n● Development of a content-based recommendation engine leveraging semantic embeddings (Mikolev et al., 2013; Bojanowski et al., 2017) .  \n● Additionally, this research introduces interactive applications through Gradio and conversational AI agents, highlighting the growing role of conversational systems in media analytics.  \nThis work illustrates how computational linguistics, especially transformer-based architecture, can reveal new insights from television scripts , transcripts, characters etc.,, thereby supporting entertainment research and media informatics.  \n2. Project Objectives and Scope  \nThe primary objective of this project is to conduct a thorough analysis of Friends TV series using cutting-edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) . This initiative will demonstrate the transformative potential of computational linguistics in media analytics (Cambria & White, 2014) . Our study zeros in on several distinct analytical tasks, effectively integrating traditional and state-of-the-art transformer-based NLP models (Hirschberg & Manning, 2015; Jurafsky & Martin, 2023) .  \nThe main objectives of this project include:  \n1. 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