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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.10
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67117
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6711/
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Khan, Anas Fahad ; Bellandi, Andrea ; Benotto, Giulia ; Frontini, Francesca ; Giovannetti, Emiliano ; Reboul, Marianne

Leveraging a Narrative Ontology to Query a Literary Text

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Abstract

In this work we propose a model for the representation of the narrative of a literary text. The model is structured in an ontology and a lexicon constituting a knowledge base that can be queried by a system. This narrative ontology, as well as describing the actors, locations, situations found in the text, provides an explicit formal representation of the timeline of the story. We will focus on a specific case study, that of the representation of a selected portion of Homer's Odyssey, in particular of the knowledge required to answer a selection of salient queries, formulated by a literary scholar. This work is being carried out within the framework of the Semantic Web by adopting models and standards such as RDF, OWL, SPARQL, and lemon among others.

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@InProceedings{khan_et_al:OASIcs:2016:6711,
  author =	{Anas Fahad Khan and Andrea Bellandi and Giulia Benotto and Francesca Frontini and Emiliano Giovannetti and Marianne Reboul},
  title =	{{Leveraging a Narrative Ontology to Query a Literary Text}},
  booktitle =	{7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:10},
  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/2016/6711},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67117},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Ontology, Lexicon, Computational Narratology, Time, Semantic Web}
}

Keywords: Ontology, Lexicon, Computational Narratology, Time, Semantic Web
Collection: 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 25.10.2016

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