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Graeme Hirst

2 accepted papers

2024

The Emotion Dynamics of Literary Novels

ACL 2024findings

Stories are rich in the emotions they exhibit in their narratives and evoke in the readers. The emotional journeys of the various characters within a story are central to their appeal. Computational analysis of the emotions of novels, however, has rarely examined the variation in the emotional traje…

2023

Improving Automatic Quotation Attribution in Literary Novels

ACL 2023short

Current models for quotation attribution in literary novels assume varying levels of available information in their training and test data, which poses a challenge for in-the-wild inference. Here, we approach quotation attribution as a set of four interconnected sub-tasks: character identification,…