@inproceedings{vishnubhotla-etal-2019-fictional,
title = "Are Fictional Voices Distinguishable? Classifying Character Voices in Modern Drama",
author = "Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya and
Hammond, Adam and
Hirst, Graeme",
editor = "Alex, Beatrice and
Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and
Kazantseva, Anna and
Reiter, Nils and
Szpakowicz, Stan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-2504",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-2504",
pages = "29--34",
abstract = "According to the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, a dialogic novel is one in which characters speak in their own distinct voices, rather than serving as mouthpieces for their authors. We use text classification to determine which authors best achieve dialogism, looking at a corpus of plays from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We find that the SAGE model of text generation, which highlights deviations from a background lexical distribution, is an effective method of weighting the words of characters{'} utterances. Our results show that it is indeed possible to distinguish characters by their speech in the plays of canonical writers such as George Bernard Shaw, whereas characters are clustered more closely in the works of lesser-known playwrights.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="vishnubhotla-etal-2019-fictional">
<titleInfo>
<title>Are Fictional Voices Distinguishable? Classifying Character Voices in Modern Drama</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Krishnapriya</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Vishnubhotla</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Adam</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Hammond</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Graeme</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Hirst</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2019-06</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Beatrice</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Alex</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Stefania</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Degaetano-Ortlieb</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Anna</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Kazantseva</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Nils</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Reiter</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Stan</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Szpakowicz</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Minneapolis, USA</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>According to the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, a dialogic novel is one in which characters speak in their own distinct voices, rather than serving as mouthpieces for their authors. We use text classification to determine which authors best achieve dialogism, looking at a corpus of plays from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We find that the SAGE model of text generation, which highlights deviations from a background lexical distribution, is an effective method of weighting the words of characters’ utterances. Our results show that it is indeed possible to distinguish characters by their speech in the plays of canonical writers such as George Bernard Shaw, whereas characters are clustered more closely in the works of lesser-known playwrights.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">vishnubhotla-etal-2019-fictional</identifier>
<identifier type="doi">10.18653/v1/W19-2504</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/W19-2504</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2019-06</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>29</start>
<end>34</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Are Fictional Voices Distinguishable? Classifying Character Voices in Modern Drama
%A Vishnubhotla, Krishnapriya
%A Hammond, Adam
%A Hirst, Graeme
%Y Alex, Beatrice
%Y Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania
%Y Kazantseva, Anna
%Y Reiter, Nils
%Y Szpakowicz, Stan
%S Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
%D 2019
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Minneapolis, USA
%F vishnubhotla-etal-2019-fictional
%X According to the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, a dialogic novel is one in which characters speak in their own distinct voices, rather than serving as mouthpieces for their authors. We use text classification to determine which authors best achieve dialogism, looking at a corpus of plays from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We find that the SAGE model of text generation, which highlights deviations from a background lexical distribution, is an effective method of weighting the words of characters’ utterances. Our results show that it is indeed possible to distinguish characters by their speech in the plays of canonical writers such as George Bernard Shaw, whereas characters are clustered more closely in the works of lesser-known playwrights.
%R 10.18653/v1/W19-2504
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-2504
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-2504
%P 29-34
Markdown (Informal)
[Are Fictional Voices Distinguishable? Classifying Character Voices in Modern Drama](https://aclanthology.org/W19-2504) (Vishnubhotla et al., LaTeCH 2019)
ACL