[Corpora-List] Information Extraction from Fiction: Collecting Test Data

[Merle Tenney]

You might want to have a look at the sites that many students use to get
information on a book that they have been assigned to read by haven't
taken the time to actually read.  These include CliffsNotes, SparkNotes,
ClassicNotes, FreeBooknotes, PinkMonkey, and probably some others.  They
all include plot summaries, character summaries, literary devices, and
other things that students need to know to write "intelligently" about
the books they haven't read.  :-)  These sites  would probably be
perfect for your purposes.

Here are some URLs that list some of the study guides in this category:

http://www.antistudy.com/title.php 
http://www.literatureproject.com/cliffsnotes-sparknotes-study-guides.htm


Hope this helps.

Merle (Tenney)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of S Givon
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:15 AM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Information Extraction from Fiction: Collecting
Test Data

Dear all,

My name is Sharon Givon and I'm an MSc student in the Speech & Language 
Processing program at the University of Edinburgh. My dissertation 
project deals with extracting information from fiction (with 
Amazon.com): central characters, relationships between them and main 
story events. Unfortunately, no annotated corpus is available for that 
purpose, and this is where I need your help.

If you are willing to help, you will find in the attached link a list 
of very famous books. If you think you are familiar enough with a story 
(either from reading the book or watching the film), please click on 
its link to fill in some information about it. You will be asked to 
fill in names of central characters, relationships between them and 
short description of main events.
If you need to refresh your memory you can use the links to the actual 
book texts.

Collecting this information is crucial to my project and will hopefully 
be useful for more researchers. I would extremely appreciate it if you 
dedicated a few minutes to it. Do not feel like you have to fill in 
information for the whole list of titles: a few books would be great 
but even one book would be well appreciated.

Here is the link:
http://sgivon.tripod.com/Index.html

Feel free to email me with questions or comments.

Regards,
Sharon.