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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.8
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67094
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6709/
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Yarlott, W. Victor H. ; Finlayson, Mark A.

ProppML: A Complete Annotation Scheme for Proppian Morphologies

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Abstract

We give a preliminary description of ProppML, an annotation scheme designed to capture all the components of a Proppian-style morphological analysis of narratives. This work represents the first fully complete annotation scheme for Proppian morphologies, going beyond previous annotation schemes such as PftML, ProppOnto, Bod et al., and our own prior work. Using ProppML we have annotated Propp's morphology on fifteen tales (18,862 words) drawn from his original corpus of Russian folktales. This is a significantly larger set of data than annotated in previous studies. This pilot corpus was constructed via double annotation by two highly trained annotators, whose annotations were then combined after discussion with a third highly trained adjudicator, resulting in gold standard data which is appropriate for training machine learning algorithms. Agreement measures calculated between both annotators show very good agreement (F_1>0.75, kappa>0.9 for functions; F_1>0.6 for moves; and F_1>0.8, kappa>0.6 for dramatis personae). This is the first robust demonstration of reliable annotation of Propp's system.

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@InProceedings{yarlott_et_al:OASIcs:2016:6709,
  author =	{W. Victor H. Yarlott and Mark A. Finlayson},
  title =	{{ProppML: A Complete Annotation Scheme for Proppian Morphologies}},
  booktitle =	{7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:19},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-020-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{53},
  editor =	{Ben Miller and Antonio Lieto and R{\'e}mi Ronfard and Stephen G. Ware and Mark A. Finlayson},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6709},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67094},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Narrative structure, Computational folkloristics, Russian folktales}
}

Keywords: Narrative structure, Computational folkloristics, Russian folktales
Collection: 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 25.10.2016

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