Modelling Narrative Elements in a Short Story: A Study on Annotation Schemes and Guidelines (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Text-processing algorithms that annotate main components of a story are in great need of corpora and well-agreed annotation schemes. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that generalizes a narrative structure in the form of world building elements (characters, time and space) and text worlds themselves and switches between them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used for annotating narratives in corpora of literary texts, criminal evidence, teaching materials, quests, etc. |
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