Annotation Guidelines for Corpus Novelties: Part 2 -- Alias Resolution Version 1.0

TL;DR

This paper presents annotation guidelines for Alias Resolution in the Novelties corpus, detailing instructions, examples, and criteria for identifying canonical names and entity references in novels.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive set of annotation guidelines specifically designed for alias resolution in literary texts, enhancing consistency and accuracy in corpus annotation.

Findings

Guidelines improve annotation consistency

Examples illustrate alias resolution criteria

Supports future research in literary entity recognition

Abstract

The Novelties corpus is a collection of novels (and parts of novels) annotated for Alias Resolution, among other tasks. This document describes the guidelines applied during the annotation process. It contains the instructions used by the annotators, as well as a number of examples retrieved from the annotated novels, and illustrating how canonical names should be defined, and which names should be considered as referring to the same entity.