Mr. Bennet, his coachman, and the Archbishop walk into a bar but only one of them gets recognized: On The Difficulty of Detecting Characters in Literary Texts
Hardik Vala, David Jurgens, Andrew Piper, Derek A. Ruths · 2015
Characters are fundamental to literary analysis.Current approaches are heavily reliant on NER to identify characters, causing many to be overlooked.We propose a novel technique for character detection, achieving significant improvements over state of the art on multiple datasets.