Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Texts

Understand

Tracking characters and locations throughout a story can help improve the understanding of its plot structure.

• Prior research has analyzed characters and locations from text independently without grounding characters to their locations in narrative time.
• Here, we address this gap by proposing a new spatial relationship categorization task.
• The objective of the task is to assign a spatial relationship category for every character and location co-mention within a window of text, taking into consideration linguistic context, narrative tense, and temporal scope.