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Record W3002364789 · doi:10.22148/001c.11776

Annotating Narrative Levels: Review of Guideline No. 8

2020· article· en· W3002364789 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Tom McEnaney

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cultural Analytics · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNarrative Theory and Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeNarratologyComputer sciencePhraseLinguisticsScripting languageFocalizationNatural language processingPhilosophy

Abstract

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“Let me tell you a story.” The proposed guidelines suggest that this phrase serve as the heuristic that readers supply at the beginning of any possible embedded narrative to identify a shift in narrative frames or levels. (The difference between “frame” and “level,” although perhaps confusing in the history of narratology, does not seem like an important distinction at this stage of the project.) This simple phrase, the author suggests, can replace a field of narrative theory they feel would “simply confuse my student annotators.” However simple the phrase might seem, however, it, in fact, conceals a number of key narratological issues: focalization, temporal indices, diction / register, person, fictional paratexts, duration, and, no doubt, others. The question for the guidelines is whether one can leapfrog the particularity of these issues if students use the above phrase to annotate texts with XML tags and produce operational scripts that identify the nested narratives. As it currently stands, students seem capable of learning the basic idea of nested narratives and tagging changes in narrative frames, but there are no real results to confirm the project’s success, as the author reports they are not yet able to confirm any inter-annotation agreement.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.073
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.172
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.385

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0730.172
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0120.008
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0090.006
Research integrity0.0050.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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