Knowledge Extraction from Fiction

Using Generative Large Language Models and Multilingual Semantic Parsing

2025. 4.30 (Wed) 4:00pm  퇴계인문관 31408호

Dr. Federico Pianzola

Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities

Center for Language and Cognition

University of Groningen

The Netherlands

https://federicopianzola.me/portfolio/

Abstract:

Extracting event knowledge from unstructured text is a well-known challenge in natural language processing (NLP) and is particularly difficult when dealing with fiction. Subtext, instead of explicit information, and figurative style in fictional narratives complicate event extraction. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved performance in various NLP tasks. However, their effective ness in extracting events from fiction remains underexplored. In this talk, we evaluate the performance of open-weights LLMs and semantic parsing to extract character death events from fictional narratives.

This work has been done in the context of the GOLEM project (“Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models”). https://golemlab.eu

성균관대학교 국어국문학과4단계 BK21 교육연구단,

성균관대학교 영어영문학과 & 언어AI 대학원 (공동주최)

Bio:

Federico Pianzola is Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where he coordinates the Master’s in Digital Humanities. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM (Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models) and previously completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) and Sogang University (South Korea). He is member of the scientific advisory board of OPERAS (the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area) and president of the International Society of the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL). He is also managing editor of the journal Scientific Study of Literature and he is on the editorial board of two other journals: the Journal of Computational Literary Studies and the Journal of Cultural Analytics. His most recent book Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the 21^st Century has been published by MIT Press in January 2025.

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