Citation
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.
. 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 -
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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.