Papers by Katherine McDonough
Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy (2020.coling-main)
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Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Ruth Ahnert, Jon Lawrence, Katherine McDonough, Giorgia Tolfo, Daniel CS Wilson, Barbara McGillivray
| Challenge: | atypical animacy is the property of being alive, but discrepancies are not uncommon . a typical animate is represented as either animate or inanimate in a text . |
| Approach: | They propose a method for determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text . they use a nineteenth-century English text to analyze animacy . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on an established animacy dataset and a newly introduced resource. |