This repository contains 2,170 annotations of character relations in 109 literary texts, as documented in characterRelations.pdf. Each annotation describes a character dyad along four dimensions of interest: coarse-grained category (social, familial, professional), fine-grained category (e.g., friend, lover, parent, rival, employer), and affinity (positive, negative, neutral). Additionally, we do not assume that this relationship is static; we also collect judgments as to whether it changes at any point in the course of the text.
character_relation_annotations.txt contains the full set of 2,170 annotations from Amazon Mechanical Turk (generally 20 annotations per text), without any adjudication of disagreements or filtering. Each annotation is paired with an (anonymized) identifier of the annotator who provided it.
This work is described in the following paper:
Philip Massey, Patrick Xia, David Bamman and Noah A. Smith (2015), Annotating Character Relations in Literary Texts, ArXiv.
- Social
- friend
- enemy
- acquaintance
- lovers
- unrequited love interest (X is in love with Y, but Y is not in love with X)
- rivals
- Professional
- employer
- employee
- colleague
- servant
- master
- student
- teacher
- client
- person offering service to client (e.g., lawyer)
- Familial
- husband/wife
- brother/sister
- cousin
- uncle/aunt
- niece/nephew
- child
- parent
- grandchild
- grandparent
- orphan
- foster parent
- step-child
- step-parent
- in-law relation (e.g., mother-in-law)
- half relation (e.g., half-sister)
- Positive
- Negative
- Neutral
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Herland |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Jew of Malta |
| E. M. Forster | Howards End |
| Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome |
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
| Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial |
| Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |
| George Eliot | Adam Bede |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch |
| George Eliot | Silas Marner |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll’s House |
| Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts |
| Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabler |
| Henry James | The American |
| Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |
| Henry James | The Turn of the Screw |
| Herman Melville | Typee |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Jack London | White Fang |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| James Joyce | Dubliners |
| James Joyce | Ulysses |
| Jane Austen | Emma |
| Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |
| Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| L. M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| Marcel Proust | Swann's Way |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Plato | The Republic |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| Stephen Crane | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
| Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie |
| Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native |
| Thomas Kyd | Spanish Tragedy |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Willa Cather | O Pioneers! |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 |
| William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 2 |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VI Part 1 |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VI Part 2 |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VI Part 3 |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VIII |
| William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar |
| William Shakespeare | King John |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear |
| William Shakespeare | Love's Labours Lost |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth |
| William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing |
| William Shakespeare | Othello |
| William Shakespeare | Richard II |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| William Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors |
| William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice |
| William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest |
| William Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| William Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale |
| William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens |
| William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus |
| William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night |