Narrative theory for computational narrative understanding

A Piper, RJ So, D Bamman - … of the 2021 Conference on Empirical …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Over the past decade, the field of natural language processing has developed a wide array
of computational methods for reasoning about narrative, including summarization …

The gender gap tracker: Using natural language processing to measure gender bias in media

FT Asr, M Mazraeh, A Lopes, V Gautam, J Gonzales… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in
news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for …

Classifying fake news articles using natural language processing to identify in-article attribution as a supervised learning estimator

T Traylor, J Straub, S Chaudhary… - 2019 IEEE 13th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intentionally deceptive content presented under the guise of legitimate journalism is a
worldwide information accuracy and integrity problem that affects opinion forming, decision …

The project dialogism novel corpus: A dataset for quotation attribution in literary texts

K Vishnubhotla, A Hammond, G Hirst - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05836, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus, or PDNC, an annotated dataset of
quotations for English literary texts. PDNC contains annotations for 35,978 quotations across …

Sig: Speaker identification in literature via prompt-based generation

Z Su, L Xu, J Xu, J Li, M Huangfu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Identifying speakers of quotations in narratives is an important task in literary analysis, with
challenging scenarios including the out-of-domain inference for unseen speakers, and non …

End-to-end Chinese speaker identification

D Yu, B Zhou, D Yu - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Speaker identification (SI) in texts aims to identify the speaker (s) for each utterance in texts.
Previous studies divide SI into several sub-tasks (eg, quote extraction, named entity …

Quotebank: A corpus of quotations from a decade of news

T Vaucher, A Spitz, M Catasta, R West - … on Web Search and Data Mining, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present Quotebank, an open corpus of 178 million quotations attributed to the speakers
who uttered them, extracted from 162 million English news articles published between 2008 …

Measuring information propagation in literary social networks

M Sims, D Bamman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13980, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present the task of modeling information propagation in literature, in which we seek to
identify pieces of information passing from character A to character B to character C, only …

What does the sea say to the shore? A BERT based DST style approach for speaker to dialogue attribution in novels

C Cuesta-Lazaro, A Prasad, T Wood - Proceedings of the 60th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We present a complete pipeline to extract characters in a novel and link them to their direct-
speech utterances. Our model is divided into three independent components: extracting …

Quoter: A benchmark of quote recommendation for writing

F Qi, Y Yang, J Yi, Z Cheng, Z Liu, M Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13145, 2022 - arxiv.org
It is very common to use quotations (quotes) to make our writings more elegant or
convincing. To help people find appropriate quotes efficiently, the task of quote …