Mr. Bennet, his coachman, and the Archbishop walk into a bar but only one of them gets recognized: On The Difficulty of Detecting Characters in Literary Texts
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Characters are fundamental to literary analysis. Current approaches are heavily reliant on NER to identify characters, causing many to be overlooked. We propose a novel technique for character detection, achieving significant improvements over state of the art on multiple datasets.
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