Event annotation for literary corpora analysis

Claude Grunspan (1) , Frédérique Mélanie-Becquet (1) , Jean Barré (1) , Laurette Chardon (2) , Ioana Galleron (1) , Marco Naguib (1) , Clément Plancq (3) , Olga Seminck (1) , Thierry Poibeau (1)

1 Lattice - Lattice - Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition - UMR 8094
2 CRISCO - Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte
3 MSH VL - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire

Studying large corpora in the literature domain, especially novels, mean that new tools are needed in order to address narratological questions at scale. A large body of research has specific developed techniques for the task, giving birth to the field known as distant reading (as opposed to close reading, by a human being), (Moretti, 2013). In this paper, we present a series of tools providing the basis for the large-scale and comprehensive annotation of French novels through the adaptation of the BookNLP project (Bamman et al. 2014) to French. We present the different kinds of annotation provided and then address specific issues concerning the annotation of events (Vauth et al., 2021).

Mots clés: Literature; Event; Annotation

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Informatique; Linguistique; Linguistique; Littératures; Méthodes et statistiques

Claude Grunspan, Frédérique Mélanie-Becquet, Jean Barré, Laurette Chardon, Ioana Galleron, et al.. Event annotation for literary corpora analysis. Digital Humanities 2022, ADHO, Jul 2022, Tokyo, Japan. pp.471-472. ⟨hal-03738806v2⟩