Mr. Bennet, his coachman, and the archbishop walk into a bar but only one of them gets recognized: On the difficulty of detecting characters in literary texts

Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 769-774

  Vala, Hardik ^a   Jurgens, David ^a   Piper, Andrew ^a   Ruths, Derek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITERARY ANALYSIS; LITERARY TEXTS; MULTIPLE DATA SETS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; STATE OF THE ART;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959881350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/d15-1088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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