{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/annotating-character-relationships-in","title":"Annotating Character Relationships in Literary Texts","arxiv_id":"1512.00728","date":"2015-12-02","proceeding":null,"authors":["Philip Massey","Patrick Xia","David Bamman","Noah A. Smith"],"abstract":"We present a dataset of manually annotated relationships between characters\nin literary texts, in order to support the training and evaluation of automatic\nmethods for relation type prediction in this domain (Makazhanov et al., 2014;\nKokkinakis, 2013) and the broader computational analysis of literary character\n(Elson et al., 2010; Bamman et al., 2014; Vala et al., 2015; Flekova and\nGurevych, 2015). In this work, we solicit annotations from workers on Amazon\nMechanical Turk for 109 texts ranging from Homer's _Iliad_ to Joyce's _Ulysses_\non four dimensions of interest: for a given pair of characters, we collect\njudgments as to the coarse-grained category (professional, social, familial),\nfine-grained category (friend, lover, parent, rival, employer), and affinity\n(positive, negative, neutral) that describes their primary relationship in a\ntext. We do not assume that this relationship is static; we also collect\njudgments as to whether it changes at any point in the course of the text.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00728v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00728v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"type-prediction","task_name":"Type prediction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"characterrelations","name":"characterRelations","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1512.00728","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}