From speaker identification to affective analysis: A multi-step system for analyzing children's stories

Elias Iosif, Taniya Mishra

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Abstract

We propose a multi-step system for the analysis of children's stories that is intended to be part of a larger text-to-speechbased storytelling system. A hybrid approach is adopted, where pattern-based and statistical methods are used along with utilization of external knowledge sources. This system performs the following story analysis tasks: Identification of characters in each story; attribution of quotes to specific story characters; identification of character age, gender and other salient personality attributes; and finally, affective analysis of the quoted material. The different types of analyses were evaluated using several datasets. For the quote attribution, as well as for the gender and age estimation, substantial improvement over baseline was realized, whereas results for personality attribute estimation and valence estimation are more modest.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014
EditorsAnna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages40-49
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284886
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 27 Apr 2014 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014

Conference

Conference3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGothenburg
Period27/04/14 → …

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