Detecting Events in Narrative Essays

A narrative can be described as a series of events connected to one another, which are caused by or experienced by the characters of the story. By this definition, an Event can be interpreted as an important part of the story since it is mostly these kinds of statements that move the plot along. The...

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Main Authors: Lam, H.W., Dillon, T., Chang, Elizabeth, Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Lui, W.
Other Authors: ResearchGate
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15732
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author Lam, H.W.
Dillon, T.
Chang, Elizabeth
Wongthongtham, Pornpit
Lui, W.
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description A narrative can be described as a series of events connected to one another, which are caused by or experienced by the characters of the story. By this definition, an Event can be interpreted as an important part of the story since it is mostly these kinds of statements that move the plot along. The concept proposed in this paper features an Event Detection framework that would eventually allow a grading system to structure the content of an essay into an event flow. The tests show some promising results, with high Precision and Recall values, and an F-measure of over 0.8 in all tests. In addition, the classifier achieves a Matthews Correlation Coefficient average of 0.52. Future work includes integrating Causal Links into the system to detect the relations between Events.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-157322017-09-13T14:07:14Z Detecting Events in Narrative Essays Lam, H.W. Dillon, T. Chang, Elizabeth Wongthongtham, Pornpit Lui, W. ResearchGate A narrative can be described as a series of events connected to one another, which are caused by or experienced by the characters of the story. By this definition, an Event can be interpreted as an important part of the story since it is mostly these kinds of statements that move the plot along. The concept proposed in this paper features an Event Detection framework that would eventually allow a grading system to structure the content of an essay into an event flow. The tests show some promising results, with high Precision and Recall values, and an F-measure of over 0.8 in all tests. In addition, the classifier achieves a Matthews Correlation Coefficient average of 0.52. Future work includes integrating Causal Links into the system to detect the relations between Events. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15732 10.1109/WAINA.2012.102 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle Lam, H.W.
Dillon, T.
Chang, Elizabeth
Wongthongtham, Pornpit
Lui, W.
Detecting Events in Narrative Essays
title Detecting Events in Narrative Essays
title_full Detecting Events in Narrative Essays
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title_short Detecting Events in Narrative Essays
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url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15732