Annotation Guideline No. 1: Narrative Boundaries Annotation Guide
Joshua D. Eisenberg, Mark Alan Finlayson · Journal of Cultural Analytics · 2019
Narratives and stories are found all over the world, in every culture, and they are used by every person every day. For computers to communicate with people in a natural and respectful manner, they need to understand stories. Unfortunately, computational understanding of stories is currently in its early stages: computers cannot yet identify even basic characteristics of a narrative, such as where it begins and ends. To train and test a computer’s ability to identify the beginnings and endings of narratives (what we call here narrative boundaries) we are collecting human judgments.