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The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus: A Dataset for Quotation Attribution in Literary Texts

12 Apr 2022LREC 2022 6arXiv:2204.05836archive 2025-07-28

Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Adam Hammond, Graeme Hirst

We present the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus, or PDNC, an annotated dataset of quotations for English literary texts. PDNC contains annotations for 35,978 quotations across 22 full-length novels, and is by an order of magnitude the largest corpus of its kind. Each quotation is annotated for the speaker, addressees, type of quotation, referring expression, and character mentions within the quotation text. The annotated attributes allow for a comprehensive evaluation of models of quotation attribution and coreference for literary texts.

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