Rahul Mittal — accepted AI-conference papers

2021

Inducing Stereotypical Character Roles from Plot Structure

Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, Mark Finlayson

EMNLP 2021main

Stereotypical character roles-also known as archetypes or dramatis personae-play an important function in narratives: they facilitate efficient communication with bundles of default characteristics and associations and ease understanding of those characters’ roles in the overall narrative. We presen…

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2020

A Straightforward Approach to Narratologically Grounded Character Identification

Labiba Jahan, Rahul Mittal, W. Victor Yarlott, Mark Finlayson

COLING 2020main

One of the most fundamental elements of narrative is character: if we are to understand a narrative, we must be able to identify the characters of that narrative. Therefore, character identification is a critical task in narrative natural language understanding. Most prior work has lacked a narratol…

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