PP-2012-06: Block, Alexander and Bod, Rens and Fisseni, Bernhard and Kurji, Adil and León, Carlos and Löwe, Benedikt and Sarikaya, Deniz (2012) Objectivity and reproducibility of formal narrative representations or annotations: Propp's functions & narrative summarization. [Report]
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Abstract
Formal narrative representation is a procedure assigning a formal description
to a natural language narrative. In general, it is a human procedure, and one
of the goals of "computational models of narrative" is to understand this
procedure better in order to automatise it. In order to be automatisable, a
formal framework should allow for objective and reproducible representations.
In this paper, we present empirical work focussing on objectivity and
reproducibility of the Proppian framework and the hypothesis that narrative
formalisation is summarisation. The first two experiments consider Propp's
formalisation of Russian fairy tales; the third compares these results to
summaries of the same stories. The data show that some features of Propp's
system such as the assignment of the characters to the dramatis personae and
some of the functions are difficult to reproduce; furthermore, natural
summaries of folktales do not match the Proppian functions.
| Item Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Report Nr: | PP-2012-06 |
| Series Name: | Prepublication (PP) Series |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | narratives; Propp |
| Depositing User: | Benedikt |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2018 17:11 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/448 |
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