NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters

Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun


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
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
7–12
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-4002
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-4002
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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)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/P18-4002.pdf
Code
 oxinabox/NovelPerspective