Citation

Nils Reiter, Benjamin Krautter, Janis Pagel, Marcus Willand. Detecting Protagonists in German Plays around 1800 as a Classification Task. In Proceedings of the European Association for Digital Humantities (EADH), Galway, Ireland, December 2018. Doi: 10.18419/opus-10162. Url: https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bitstream/11682/10179/1/article.pdf.

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Abstract

In this paper, we aim at identifying protagonists in plays automatically. To this end, we train a classifier using various features and investigate the importance of each feature. A challenging aspect here is that the number of spoken words for a character is a very strong baseline. We can show, however, that a) the stage presence of characters and b) topics used in their speech can help to detect protagonists even above the baseline.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{reiter2018a,
   author    = {Nils Reiter and Benjamin Krautter and Janis Pagel and Marcus Willand},
   booktitle = {{Proceedings of the European Association for Digital Humantities (EADH)}},
   doi       = {10.18419/opus-10162},
   location  = {Galway, Ireland},
   month     = {12},
   title     = {{Detecting Protagonists in German Plays around 1800 as a Classification Task}},
   url       = {https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bitstream/11682/10179/1/article.pdf},
   year      = {2018},
}

RIS

TY - CPAPER
TI - Detecting Protagonists in German Plays around 1800 as a Classification Task
AU - Nils Reiter
AU - Benjamin Krautter
AU - Janis Pagel
AU - Marcus Willand
PY - 2018
J2 - Proceedings of the European Association for Digital Humantities (EADH)
DO - 10.18419/opus-10162
UR - https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/bitstream/11682/10179/1/article.pdf
CY - Galway, Ireland
ER -