troianea/CLAUSE-ATLAS

Dataset Description

CLAUSE-ATLAS is a corpus that contains six books annotated with narrative categories at the level of clauses. The books (i.e., Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, and The Great Gatsby) were extracted from Project Gutenberg. Clauses were obtained by chunking the books with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo, 16k tokens context), called via the official OpenAI’s API and istructed with the prompt reported in ./clauseatlas_notebook.ipynb.

Clause Annotation

The clauses in CLAUSE-ATLAS are annotated as expressing one of three types of information:

• a subjective experience, internal to the character in the novel (e.g., thoughts, memories, perceptions),
• an objective event that happens in the external narrative world;
• additional information about the characters or the narrative world.

Clauses marked as subjective experiences were further associated to the corresponding characters.

Annotation Setup

Clauses were annotated in two setups: with the help of humans, and with the use of different instructions to prompt ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo, 16k tokens context).

Setup	Annotators	Data	Instructions
Human Annotation	3 people	First chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and The Great Gatsby	Prompts and function calling as in ./clauseatlas_notebook.ipynb
ChatGPT Annotation	3 prompts	Whole corpus	Stored in ./Human_Guidelines.pdf

NOTE: The task of identifying the characters of subjective experiences was performed by all humans. In the automatic setup, this layer of annotation was obtained (instructions as in ./clauseatlas_notebook.ipynb) on the clauses labeled with one prompt only.

Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
book	str	Title of the book containing a given clause
chapter_id	i64	Number of the book chapter containing the clause.
paragraph_id	i64	Number of the paragraph containing the clause.
clause_number	i64	ID of the clause in the corpus.
text	str	Clause text.
prompt_one prompt_two prompt_three	str	Annotations obtained with the three prompts. S: subjective experience. E: external events. C: contextual information.
human_one human_two human_three	str	Annotations produced by the three humans.
experiencer_prompt_one	str	Characters involved in the subjective experiences identified by prompt_one.
experiencer_human_one experiencer_human_two experiencer_human_three	str	Characters involved in the subjective experiences identified by the three annotators.

Copyright and License

The books in CLAUSE-ATLAS are copyright-free. The corpus is licensed under the non-commercial CC 4.0 license. If you use this corpus, please cite us as follows:

@inproceedings{TroianoVossen2024,
  author = {Enrica Troiano and Piek Vossen},
  title = {CLAUSE-ATLAS: A Corpus of Narrative Information
to Scale Up Computational Literary Analysis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING)},
  year = {2024},
  address = {Turin, Italy}
}