Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11390v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:50:15 GMT
• Title: Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization
• Authors: Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan,
• Abstract summary: Focalization, the perspective through which narrative is presented, is encoded via a wide range of lexico-grammatical features. We provide experiments to test how well contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) perform when annotating literary texts for focalization mode.
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• Abstract: Focalization, the perspective through which narrative is presented, is encoded via a wide range of lexico-grammatical features and is subject to reader interpretation. Moreover, trained readers regularly disagree on interpretations, suggesting that this problem may be computationally intractable. In this paper, we provide experiments to test how well contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) perform when annotating literary texts for focalization mode. Despite the challenging nature of the task, LLMs show comparable performance to trained human annotators in our experiments. We provide a case study working with the novels of Stephen King to demonstrate the usefulness of this approach for computational literary studies, illustrating how focalization can be studied at scale.

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