This repository provides a small corpus (texts/) of Dutch fairy tales from the collection Volkssprookjes uit Nederland en Vlaanderen by Sinninghe (1978). The corpus has been annotated for coreference, which comprises mainly character coreference (including both proper names and nouns referring to characters). The annotations have been made using brat and can be found under annotations/. The folder visualization/ provides a playful narrative chart visualization of each story, such as the following:
To view all visualizations, move to the visualization directory and run a local server, e.g. using:
python -m http.server
If you use this corpus, please cite the following paper:
@InProceedings{karsdorp:2015,
author = {Folgert Karsdorp and Marten van der Meulen and Theo Meder and Antal van den Bosch},
title = {{Animacy Detection in Stories}},
booktitle = {6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)},
pages = {82--97},
series = {OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
year = {2015},
volume = {45},
editor = {Mark A. Finlayson and Ben Miller and Antonio Lieto and Remi Ronfard},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.82},
}