@inproceedings{yeung-lee-2017-identifying,
    title = "Identifying Speakers and Listeners of Quoted Speech in Literary Works",
    author = "Yeung, Chak Yan  and
      Lee, John",
    editor = "Kondrak, Greg  and
      Watanabe, Taro",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Taipei, Taiwan",
    publisher = "Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/I17-2055/",
    pages = "325--329",
    abstract = "We present the first study that evaluates both speaker and listener identification for direct speech in literary texts. Our approach consists of two steps: identification of speakers and listeners near the quotes, and dialogue chain segmentation. Evaluation results show that this approach outperforms a rule-based approach that is state-of-the-art on a corpus of literary texts."
}