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        Date: 2024-04-09 21:18:29+00:00
        From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@ualberta.ca>
        Subject: Call for Participants in Citizen Science project: The Lives of Literary Characters

Dear all,

We've recently launched the second phase of our project, The Lives of Literary
Characters, which uses language models to identify literary characters for
narrative analysis. This will allow us to track changes in characters over time.
For example, are characters getting more wealthy or educated? Are there more
villains? How have  gender balances changed?

Right now, we're looking for volunteers to create the training data on
Zooniverse. The  task involves annotating a given character summary, answering
questions like "How old is this character?", "What is the character's estimated
level of wealth?" or "What gender would you assign to the character?"

We'd be grateful if you could share this project with any parties interested in
the applications and intersections of language models. Of note, our project
prides itself on our commitment to transparency; both our model and training
data will be open-source.

Attached is the project's Zooniverse page:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/citizenreaders/the-lives-of-literary-
characters

Happy Reading!

Geoffrey Rockwell (He/him)
Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
University of Alberta


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