Identifying Speakers and Listeners of Quoted Speech in Literary Works
Chak Yan Yeung, John Lee · CityU Scholars · 2017
We present the first study that evaluates both speaker and listener identification for direct speech in literary texts. Our approach consists of two steps: identification of speakers and listeners near the quotes, and dialogue chain segmentation. Evaluation results show that this approach outperforms a rule-based approach that is state-of-the-art on a corpus of literary texts. © 2017 AFNLP.