A Hybrid Approach to Extract Temporal Signals from Narratives

When processing literary narratives, standard temporal annotation specifications – typically developed for processing newsstyle documents – do not match the expectations of literary scholars. Thus, a different definition of temporal signals is required. In this paper, we define this concept from the narratological perspective and present our hybrid approach developed in the context of the heureCLÉA1 project to extract temporal signals. Our evaluation demonstrates high quality extraction results, making the approach directly applicable to the literary domain.