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Character Identification in Children Stories

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Advances in Natural Language Processing (EsTAL 2004)

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Abstract

The automatic identification of direct and indirect discourses and the association of each “direct” utterance with its author are research topics that begin to be explored in Natural Language Processing.

We developed the DID system that when applied to children stories starts by classifying the utterances that belong to the narrator (indirect discourse) and those belonging to the characters taking part in the story (direct discourse). Afterword, DID tries to associate each direct discourse utterance with the character(s) in the story.

This automation can be advantageous, namely when it is necessary to tag the stories that should be handled by an automatic story teller.

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  1. L2F – Spoken Language Systems Lab, INESC-ID Lisboa / IST, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede & Pedro Chaleira

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  1. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    José Luis Vicedo

  2. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems Group, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Patricio Martínez-Barco

  3. Grupo de investigación del Procesamiento del Lenguaje y Sistemas de Información, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Rafael Muńoz

  4. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

    Maximiliano Saiz Noeda

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Mamede, N., Chaleira, P. (2004). Character Identification in Children Stories. In: Vicedo, J.L., Martínez-Barco, P., Muńoz, R., Saiz Noeda, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. EsTAL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30228-5_8

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