Added value of coreference annotation for character analysis in narratives

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Publikationsdatum
2018
Sprache
English
Author
Andresen, Melanie 
Vauth, Michael 
Institut
Humanities B-6 
DOI
10.15480/882.2596
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/3233
First published in
CEUR workshop proceedings 
Number in series
2155
Start Page
1
End Page
6
Citation
Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities (annDH 2018)
Contribution to Conference
Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities, annDH 2018 
Publisher Link
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-2155-1
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85054935632
A central question for the analysis of literary texts in digital humanities is the identification of characters in the text. A simple approach would be to reduce the analysis to mentions of the character by its proper name as these are easy to retrieve. A more elaborate solution requires coreference annotation, identifying all mentions of a character in the text, irrespective of their form. Using the example of the novel Corpus Delicti by the German author Juli Zeh, we compare these two approaches and show the added value of coreference annotation.
Schlagworte
coreference
character analysis
literary studies
narrative texts
DDC Class
000: Allgemeines, Wissenschaft
Lizenz
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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