The automatic classification of stage directions is a little explored topic in computational drama analysis, in spite of their relevance for plays' structural and stylistic analysis. With a view to start assessing good practices for the automatic annotation of this textual element, we developed a 13-class stage direction typology, based on annotations in the FreDraCor corpus (French-language plays), but abstracting away from their huge variability while still providing classes useful for literary research. We fine-tuned transformers-based models to classify against the typology, gradually decreasing the corpus size used for fine tuning, to compare model efficiency with reduced training data. A result comparison speaks in favour of distilled monolingual models for this task, and, unlike earlier research on German, shows no negative effects of model case-sensitivity. The results have practical relevance for computational literary studies, as comparing classification results with complementary stage direction typologies, limiting the amount of manual annotation needed to apply them, would be helpful towards a systematic study of this important textual element.

Stage Direction Classification in French Theater: Transfer Learning Experiments

[**Teleport to Gather**](https://app.gather.town/app/XDzSQW1b0mpTTAYr/EACL2024?spawnToken=dj2o3AygSBe7v-9UfJPo) SIGHUM groups together researchers interested in computational linguistics applications in all aspects of digital humanities, including for example computational humanities, computational social sciences, computational literary studies and digital libraries. We provide a forum for communication between ACL researchers and other digital humanities communities and organisations. [**Read more**](https://sighum.wordpress.com/)
 [**Invited Speaker**](https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2024/invited-speaker/) **Program Overview** 
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome 
09:05 - 10:05 Talk Session 
10:05 - 10:35 Poster session 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break 
11:00 - 12:00 Poster session 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 
13:30 - 14:30 Invited Talk - Marten Düring and Maud Ehrmann 
14:30 - 15:30 Talk Session 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 
16:00 - 17:20 Talk Session 
17:20 - 17:40 Business Meeting SIGHUM 
17:40 - 17:45 Closing [**Detailed Program**](https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2024/workshop-program/)

W10: The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL)

workshop paper

Welcome to the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Continuing its mission of expanding and involving the science community of all European countries, EACL has selected the Malta community for the 18th EACL. Considering the importance of physical interaction among researchers, the conference will be held at the Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians, in Malta, from 17 to 22 of March, 2024. The conference will also feature the possibility to participate virtually. As the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. 
#### [Conference Handbook](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Wn38q0yev6U3RTgnf4Tn5T9GuAuZ-xW/view?usp=sharing) *downloadable*

To access the EACL 2024 event page you need to register [**here**](https://acl.swoogo.com/EACL2024). 

Please register!

EACL 2024

As the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

Alexia Schneider

1

Presentations

Stage Direction Classification in French Theater: Transfer Learning Experiments

Stay up to date with the latest Underline news!

PRESENTATIONS

CONFERENCES

COMPANY

RESOURCES