A character network is a graph extracted from a narrative in which vertices represent
characters and edges correspond to interactions between them. A number of narrative …

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has
of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language …

This paper describes the development of the Dutch Folktale Database as a digital archive of
intangible heritage and a sophisticated research instrument. Current research focuses on …

This paper reports on the project Namescape: Mapping the Landscape of Names in Modern
Dutch Literature, funded by CLARIN-NL. The background of the project is research in literary …

This article describes a simple unsupervised system for automatic extraction and
classification of named entities in French novels. The solution presented combines a set of …

ABSTRACT The project Namescape: Mapping the Landscape of Names in Modern Dutch
Literature (2012–2013) was a demonstrator project granted in the third CLARIN-NL call …

Dilemma scenarios and knowledge of social values support engaging and believable
narrative gameplay. Previous work in dilemma generation has explored scenarios involving …

This paper presents a linguistically uninformed computational model for animacy
classification. The model makes use of word n-grams in combination with lower dimensional …

In recent times, the advent of network science permitted new quantitative approaches to
literary studies. Here, we bring the Kyiv bylyny cycle into the field—East Slavic epic …

We propose a system for identifying literary characters from folktales. The process of
extracting characters from free texts is guided by an ontology that encodes the knowledge of …