Detecting Direct Speech in Multilingual Collection of 19th-century Novels

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Joanna Byszuk, Micha{\l} Wo{\'z}niak, Mike Kestemont, Albert Le{\'s}niak, Wojciech {\L}ukasik, Artjoms {\v{S}}e{\c{l}}a, Maciej Eder

Fictional prose can be broadly divided into narrative and discursive forms with direct speech being central to any discourse representation (alongside indirect reported speech and free indirect discourse).

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