A naïve, salience-based method for speaker identification in fiction books


Autoria(s): Glass, Kevin; Bangay, Shaun
Contribuinte(s)

Tapamo, J. R.

Nicolls, F.

Data(s)

01/01/2007

Resumo

This paper presents a salience-based technique for the annotation of directly quoted speech from fiction text. In particular, this paper determines to what extent a naïve (without the use of complex machine learning or knowledge-based techniques) scoring technique can be used for the identification of the speaker of speech quotes. The presented technique makes use of a scoring technique, similar to that commonly found in knowledge-poor anaphora resolution research, as well as a set of hand-coded rules for the final identification of the speaker of each quote in the text. Speaker identification is shown to be achieved using three tasks: the identification of a speech-verb associated with a quote with a recall of 94.41%; the identification of the actor associated with a quote with a recall of 88.22%; and the selection of a speaker with an accuracy of 79.40%.<br />

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30039199

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

PRASA

Relação

http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30039199/bangay-anaive-2007.pdf

Direitos

2007, PRASA

Tipo

Conference Paper