@inproceedings{brate-etal-2020-towards,
    title = "Towards Olfactory Information Extraction from Text: A Case Study on Detecting Smell Experiences in Novels",
    author = "Brate, Ryan  and
      Groth, Paul  and
      van Erp, Marieke",
    editor = "DeGaetano, Stefania  and
      Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Reiter, Nils  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.latechclfl-1.18/",
    pages = "147--155",
    abstract = "Environmental factors determine the smells we perceive, but societal factors factors shape the importance, sentiment and biases we give to them. Descriptions of smells in text, or as we call them `smell experiences', offer a window into these factors, but they must first be identified. To the best of our knowledge, no tool exists to extract references to smell experiences from text. In this paper, we present two variations on a semi-supervised approach to identify smell experiences in English literature. The combined set of patterns from both implementations offer significantly better performance than a keyword-based baseline."
}