This position paper is based on a keynote presentation at the COLING 2016 Workshop on
Language Technology for Digital Humanities in Osaka, Japan. It departs from observations …

Current models for quotation attribution in literary novels assume varying levels of available
information in their training and test data, which poses a challenge for in-the-wild inference …

Computational Stylistics (CS) is a field of enquiry that examines the forms, social
embedding, and the aesthetic potential of literary texts by means of computational and …

The digital humanities (DH) is currently in the phase of the “hype cycle” known as the “trough
of disillusionment.” Franco Moretti, perhaps the most prominent practitioner of the most …

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 …

As reading for pleasure is declining, particularly among the young, we are motivated to
investigate the textual elements that may play a role in generating high-quality book …

According to the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, a dialogic novel is one in which characters
speak in their own distinct voices, rather than serving as mouthpieces for their authors. We …

Computing machines allow quantitative analysis of large databases of text, providing
knowledge that is difficult to obtain without using automation. This article describes …

With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence in natural language processing
technology, machine translation based on machine learning technology has been fully …

Moving target detection and tracking technology is the core technology in the field of
computer vision. It integrates image processing, pattern recognition and intelligence, and …