@inproceedings{pannach-2023-orpheus,
    title = "{``}Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt{''}: Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences",
    author = "Pannach, Franziska",
    editor = "Prange, Jakob  and
      Friedrich, Annemarie",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.law-1.2",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.law-1.2",
    pages = "10--18",
    abstract = "The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge. Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data set of 6315 sentences from various mythological contexts and geographical origins, like Ancient Greece and Rome or Mesopotamia, into four categories: single-point events (e.g. actions), durative-constant (background knowledge, continuous states), durative-initial, and durative-resultativ. This data is used to train a classifier, which is able to reliably distinguish event types.",
}

The mythological domain has various ways of expressing events and background knowledge. Using data extracted according to the hylistic approach (Zgoll, 2019), we annotated a data set of 6315 sentences from various mythological contexts and geographical origins, like Ancient Greece and Rome or Mesopotamia, into four categories: single-point events (e.g. actions), durative-constant (background knowledge, continuous states), durative-initial, and durative-resultativ. This data is used to train a classifier, which is able to reliably distinguish event types.
Pannach, Franziska
“Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt”: Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences