The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse
@inproceedings{Howald2011TheEO,
title={The Exploitation of Spatial Information in Narrative Discourse},
author={B. Howald and E. G. Katz},
booktitle={IWCS},
year={2011}
}We present the results of several machine learning tasks that exploit explicit spatial language to classify rhetorical relations and the spatial information of narrative events. Three corpora are annotated with figure and ground (granularity) relationships, mereotopologically classified verbs and prepositions, and frames of reference. For rhetorical relations, Naive Bayesian models achieve 84.90% and 57.87% accuracy in classifying NARRATION and BACKGROUND/ELABORATION relations respectively (16… CONTINUE READING
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