from the text Hamlet, the word "Laertes", which refers to a drama element, namely a character, will be annotated as "Char", taken from some set of metadata.
The discrete manifestations of drama are documented in different media, including text, score, video, audio, etc.
In particular, semantic annotation relies on the use of the Resource Description Framework language, specifically designed to described Web content of any type.
On the one side, the tradition of knowledge representation in AI has contributed the conceptual tools for describing the content of stories, with languages that span from scripts[5] [Schank 1975] to frames.
On the other side, the annotation of narratives has benefited from the trend, established during the last three decades,[9] of representing the content of documents in a machine-readable form.
More recently, as part of the more general effort of constructing resources for the automation of language processing and generation, Elson has proposed a template based language for describing the narrative content of text documents, with the goal of creating a corpus of annotated narrative texts, called DramaBank project.
[18] A line of research has tackled the use of logical representations to describe stories, with the goal of creating generative systems that leverage the axiomatization of narrative structures.
[19] Finally, some scholars have created representational tools for specific narrative theories, ranging from literary structuralism[20] to scriptwriting practices[21]