Abstract
We present NovelPerspective: a tool to allow consumers to subset their digital literature, based on point of view (POV) character. Many novels have multiple main characters each with their own storyline running in parallel. A well-known example is George R. R. Martin’s novel: “A Game of Thrones”, and others from that series. Our tool detects the main character that each section is from the POV of, and allows the user to generate a new ebook with only those sections. This gives consumers new options in how they consume their media; allowing them to pursue the storylines sequentially, or skip chapters about characters they find boring. We present two heuristic-based baselines, and two machine learning based methods for the detection of the main character.- Anthology ID:
- P18-4002
- Volume:
- Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7–12
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P18-4002
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P18-4002
- Cite (ACL):
- Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun. 2018. NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations, pages 7–12, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters (White et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/P18-4002.pdf
- Code
- oxinabox/NovelPerspective