Reiter, NilsKrautter, BenjaminPagel, JanisWilland, Marcus2018-12-192018-12-192018http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-ds-101799http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/10179http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-10162In this paper, we aim at identifying protagonists in plays automatically. To this end, we train a classifier using various features and investigate the importance of each feature. A challenging aspect here is that the number of spoken words for a character is a very strong baseline. We can show, however, that a) the stage presence of characters and b) topics used in their speech can help to detect protagonists even above the baseline.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess004830conferenceObject