Summary of the paper
| Title | Building a Bank of Semantically Encoded Narratives |
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| Authors | David K. Elson and Kathleen R. McKeown |
| Abstract | We propose a methodology for a novel type of discourse annotation whose modelis tuned to the analysis of a text as narrative. This is intended to be thebasis of a “story bank” resource that would facilitate the automaticanalysis of narrative structure and content. The methodology calls forannotators to construct propositions that approximate a reference text, byselecting predicates and arguments from among controlled vocabularies drawnfrom resources such as WordNet and VerbNet. Annotators then integrate thepropositions into a conceptual graph that maps out the entire discourse; theedges represent temporal, causal and other relationships at the level of storycontent. Because annotators must identify the recurring objects and themes thatappear in the text, they also perform coreference resolution and word sensedisambiguation as they encode propositions. We describe a collection experimentand a method for determining inter-annotator agreement when multiple annotatorsencode the same short story. Finally, we describe ongoing work toward extendingthe method to integrate the annotator’s interpretations of character agency(the goals, plans and beliefs that are relevant, yet not explictly stated inthe text). |
| Language | Semantics |
| Topics | Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Semantics |
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Building a Bank of Semantically Encoded Narratives |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ELSON10.835, author = {David K. Elson and Kathleen R. McKeown}, title = {Building a Bank of Semantically Encoded Narratives}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |