The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus: A Dataset for Quotation Attribution in Literary Texts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05836v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:23:55 GMT
• Title: The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus: A Dataset for Quotation Attribution in Literary Texts
• Abstract summary: The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus, or PDNC, is an annotated dataset of quotations for English literary texts. PDNC contains annotations for 35,978 quotations across 22 full-length novels.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus, or PDNC, an annotated dataset of quotations for English literary texts. PDNC contains annotations for 35,978 quotations across 22 full-length novels, and is by an order of magnitude the largest corpus of its kind. Each quotation is annotated for the speaker, addressees, type of quotation, referring expression, and character mentions within the quotation text. The annotated attributes allow for a comprehensive evaluation of models of quotation attribution and coreference for literary texts.

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