Approaches and Challenges for Resolving Different Representations of Fictional Characters for Chinese Novels (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing automatic text analysis tools and models are often developed for generic, open-domain tasks, restricting in-depth literary studies. |
| Approach: | They adapt a state-of-the-art anaphora resolution model to resolve character representations in Chinese novels by making some modifications and train a widely used BERT fine-tuned model for speaker extraction as assistance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is modified to resolve character representations in Chinese novels and train a BERT fine-tuned model for speaker extraction as assistance. |
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