DramaBank: Annotating Agency in Narrative Discourse

David Elson


Abstract
We describe the Story Intention Graph, a set of discourse relations designed to represent aspects of narrative. Compared to prior models, ours is a novel synthesis of the notions of goal, plan, intention, outcome, affect and time that is amenable to corpus annotation. We describe a collection project, DramaBank, which includes encodings of texts ranging from small fables to epic poetry and contemporary nonfiction.
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L12-1515
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2813–2819
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/866_Paper.pdf
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David Elson. 2012. DramaBank: Annotating Agency in Narrative Discourse. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2813–2819, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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DramaBank: Annotating Agency in Narrative Discourse (Elson, LREC 2012)
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