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FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction

Description

Fanfiction presents an opportunity as a data source for research in NLP, education, and social science. However, answering specific research questions with this data is difficult, since fanfiction contains more diverse writing styles than formal fiction. We present a text processing pipeline for fanfiction, with a focus on identifying text associated with characters. The pipeline includes modules for character identification and coreference, as well as the attribution of quotes and narration to those characters. Additionally, the pipeline contains a novel approach to character coreference that uses knowledge from quote attribution to resolve pronouns within quotes. For each module, we evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches on 10 annotated fanfiction stories. This pipeline outperforms tools developed for formal fiction on the tasks of character coreference and quote attribution.

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PUBLICATION DETAILS

Author
M. Miller Yoder
S. Khosla
Q. Shen
A. Naik
Huiming Jin
H. Muralidharan
C. Rosé
Publisher
ACL Anthology
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Publication Year
2021
Discipline(s)
Computer and informational technology science