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@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of S Givon
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:15 AM
To: corpora@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.
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