Sherlock Holmes Texts

Here are the texts of two stories, tokenized, pos-tagged and annotated with extended wordnet senses. This release is prepared for the shared annotation task of the Events and Stories in the News workshop at ACL 2017. The texts are part of the NTU Multilingual Corpus, only the English texts are given here.

• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (SPEC: Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892)
  • Human Readable Text
  • Annotated Text (NAF)
  • In the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (DANC: Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903)
  • Human Readable Text
  • Annotated Text (NAF)
  • In the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Texts are tokenized, pos-tagged and tagged with wordnet senses. They are released in a modified version of the NLP annotation format (NAF).

Sense tags are:

• Wordnet senses (012345678-[avnrx])
  http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/ntumc/cgi-bin/wn-gridx.cgi?gridmode=ntumc-noedit&lang=eng&synset=77000021-n
  You can find them online here (substitute the synset):
  http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/ntumc/cgi-bin/wn-gridx.cgi?gridmode=ntumc-noedit&lang=eng&synset=77000021-n
  • if the first digit is 0,1,2 then they are offset and pos from Princeton Wordnet 3.0
  • if the first digit is 7, then they are pronouns (including demonstratives, indefinite and interrogative)
  • if the first digit is 8 or 9, then they are new senses from the NTU-MC.
• Named entities (loc|num|org|oth|per|dat:year)

The stories are public domain, the annotations are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .