Shared-Character Stories

This directory contains the Shared-Character Stories dataset (759 stories) and annotations for its subset (100 stories and 623 annotations). They are introduced in our paper:

Yusuke Mori, Hiroaki Yamane, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, "How narratives move your mind: A corpus of shared-character stories for connecting emotional flow and interestingness," Information Processing & Management, 2019. Link

Contents

Collected Stories

• ./stories/condstories.csv
  • 759 stories, conditioned with two-character settings
    • story id
    • two-character setting
    • from 1st to 5th sentence of the story (sent_1 ~ sent_5)
  • Note that “athlete” was misspelled as “athelete” in our settings, but no workers seemed to be confused by the typo.

Emotion Evaluation

• ./emotion_evaluation/small_task_allinfo.csv

  • 100 stories used for annotation (75 human-written, 25 artificial managed)
    • story id
    • two-character setting
    • sent_1 ~ sent_5
    • two-character names
    • two-character setting with the names replaced
    • type : a condition of the story {human-written, random last sentence, random last sentence from the same setting, random order}

• ./emotion_evaluation/eval_results.csv

  • evaluated results (623 answers)
    • story id
    • sent_1 ~ sent_5
    • Review
    • Valence and Arousal of each sentence from the points of view of Character 1, Character 2, and Reader
    • Five Evaluation Aspects
      • clearness (clarity)
      • consistency
      • fluency
      • meaning
      • storyness
    • rating : a total score
    • Title : a title of the story (for 25 artificial managed stories, the title of the original human-written stories are shown)
    • type : a condition of the story {human-written, random last sentence, random last sentence from the same setting, random order}

Visualization

• ./emotion_evaluation/vis_eval_results.ipynb
  • using ./src/emotionplot.py

Copyright

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.

Citation:

@article{mori2019sharedcharacters,
    title = "How narratives move your mind: A corpus of shared-character stories for connecting emotional flow and interestingness",
    journal = "Information Processing & Management",
    year = "2019",
    issn = "0306-4573",
    doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.03.006",
    author = "Yusuke Mori and Hiroaki Yamane and Yoshitaka Ushiku and Tatsuya Harada",
}