PersonaBank: A Corpus of Personal Narratives and Their Story Intention Graphs
This provides a resource for natural language processing researchers working on narrative generation and understanding, but it is incremental as it adapts existing annotation tools to a new domain.
The authors introduced PersonaBank, a corpus of 108 personal stories from weblogs annotated with Story Intention Graphs to represent narrative structure, and discussed its application in story retelling and content planning.
We present a new corpus, PersonaBank, consisting of 108 personal stories from weblogs that have been annotated with their Story Intention Graphs, a deep representation of the fabula of a story. We describe the topics of the stories and the basis of the Story Intention Graph representation, as well as the process of annotating the stories to produce the Story Intention Graphs and the challenges of adapting the tool to this new personal narrative domain We also discuss how the corpus can be used in applications that retell the story using different styles of tellings, co-tellings, or as a content planner.