“Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt”: Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences

Franziska Pannach


Abstract
The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge. Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data set of 6315 sentences from various mythological contexts and geographical origins, like Ancient Greece and Rome or Mesopotamia, into four categories: single-point events (e.g. actions), durative-constant (background knowledge, continuous states), durative-initial, and durative-resultativ. This data is used to train a classifier, which is able to reliably distinguish event types.
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2023.law-1.2
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Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Jakob Prange, Annemarie Friedrich
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10–18
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10.18653/v1/2023.law-1.2
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Franziska Pannach. 2023. “Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt”: Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences. In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), pages 10–18, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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