On Organizing a Shared Task for the Digital Humanities – Conclusions and Future Paths

Abstract

Sharedtasksareaworkformatprevalentinthenaturallanguageprocessingandmachinelearningcommunity. Thisspecial issue continues the reporting on the shared task SANTA (Systematic Analysis of Narrative levels Through Annotation), which has the development of annotation guidelines for narrative levels as its goal. Narrative levels, also known as embedded narrations, are omnipresent in many kinds of narrations, and one of the core concepts of narratology. In this introduction, we summarize the current state, report on the second annotation round in SANTA, draw some conclusions and, finally, derive some recommendations for future shared tasks in the digital humanities.