Annotation Guideline No. 4: Annotating Narrative Levels in Literature
Nora K. Ketschik, Benjamin Krautter, Sandra Murr, Yvonne Zimmermann · Journal of Cultural Analytics · 2019
Our participation in the Shared Task on the Analysis of Narrative Levels Through Annotation was motivated by a theoretical and practical interest in narratological phenomena of literary texts. We are a group of four literary scholars, three of whom are also working in the field of Digital Humanities. Combining these two scientific perspectives seems to be a fruitful research approach to formalize concepts of narratology with a focus on intersubjectivity. Therefore, a shared task dealing with narrative levels was particularly appealing to us, since narrative levels are both a delimited aspect of narratological categories and a complex concept of literary theory that can be of great importance for a formal text analysis and the following interpretation.