Context
This dataset is based on the work presented in the following publication, please cite it if you use the data in an academic publication:
Alnajjar, K., Hämäläinen, M., Chen, H., & Toivonen, H. (2017). Expanding and Weighting Stereotypical Properties of Human Characters for Linguistic Creativity. In A. Goel, A. Jordanous, & A. Pease (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'17) (pp. 25-32). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology .
Content
The file contains a list of famous characters (such as Abraham Lincoln) and human categories (such as Activist) and a set of adjectival properties that are typically used to describe them. The adjectival properties have a weight indicating how descriptive they are of a given famous character.
Acknowledgements
The data is a result of automatic expansion of the NOC list [1] data with Thesaurus Rex [2].
[1] Veale, T. (2016). Round Up The Usual Suspects: Knowledge-Based Metaphor Generation. In Proceedings of the Meta4NLP Workshop on Metaphor at NAACL-2016, the annual meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, California.
[2] Veale, T. and Hao, Y. (2008). Enriching WordNet with Folk Knowledge and Stereotypes. In Proceedings of GWC 2008, the 4th Global WordNet Conference. Szeged, Hungary.