no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, Mark Finlayson
Stereotypical character roles-also known as archetypes or dramatis personae-play an important function in narratives: they facilitate efficient communication with bundles of default characteristics and associations and ease understanding of those characters’ roles in the overall narrative.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, W. Victor Yarlott, Mark Finlayson
One of the most fundamental elements of narrative is character: if we are to understand a narrative, we must be able to identify the characters of that narrative.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Labiba Jahan, Mark Finlayson
The most important of the two corpora is a set of 46 Russian folktales, on which the model achieves an F1 of 0. 81.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Labiba Jahan, Geeticka Chauhan, Mark Finlayson
The system achieves an F1 of 0. 88 for classifying the animacy of referring expressions, which is comparable to state of the art results for classifying the animacy of words, and achieves an F1 of 0. 75 for classifying the animacy of coreference chains themselves.