Character Profiling in 19th Century Fiction
Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Mats Malm · 2011
This paper describes the way in which personal relationships between main characters in 19 th century Swedish prose fiction can be identified using information guided by named entities, provided by a entity recognition system adapted to the 19 th century Swedish language characteristics. Interpersonal relation extraction is based on the context between two relevant, identified person entities. The relationships extraction process also utilizes the content of on-line available lexical semantic resources (suitable vocabularies) and fairly standard context matching methods that provide a basic mechanism for identifying a wealth of interpersonal relations. Such relations can hopefully aid the reader of a 19thcentury Swedish literary work to better understand its content and plot, and get a bird’s eye view on the landscape of the core story. 1