"Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt": Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences

Franziska Pannach

The 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII) \\ @ ACL 2023 Long paper (8 pages) Paper

TLDR: The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge. Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data set of 6315 sentences from various mythological contexts and geographical origins, like Ancient Greece and Rome or Mesopo
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Abstract: The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge. Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data set of 6315 sentences from various mythological contexts and geographical origins, like Ancient Greece and Rome or Mesopotamia, into four categories: single-point events (e.g. actions), durative-constant (background knowledge, continuous states), durative-initial, and durative-resultativ. This data is used to train a classifier, which is able to reliably distinguish event types.