I already added these comments in the Document Analysis Feedback, but I think this might be a quicker way to contact @andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) / the answers may be beneficial to everyone!
So, I love the Ai feature of being able to "analyze entities", but I'm a little confused about it. So the Ai will pick up the name of a character for multiple different entities (the same character multiple times, places, etc.) and when I link them to the same character, that character profile is just on there 3+ times. Is there a way to teach the Ai that the "different" entities that it is picking up, is actually a single character (and that the nicknames of those characters are still for the same characters)? <– I hope that sentence makes sense.
Also, does the Ai combine the linked character profiles across documents? This if possible, would be helpful to see how our characters are seen across their arcs. And can these entity analysis be shown on the character profiles. It would be awesome if I could just go to my character and see that they are generally angry& joyful etc.
And lastly, for those of us who write in first person, I would be awesome to link I / the voice of the narrator as an entity that could be linked to a character profile.
Is any of this possible, or is it already being done and I'm just being dumb and can't see it?
Thanks a bunch!!!
Hey @LittleBear, these are great questions (and I agree, the answers might be beneficial to everyone!). I get a lot of feedback (which I love, thank you!) so sometimes I'm a bit slow to respond to some; sorry about the delay!
So, I love the Ai feature of being able to "analyze entities", but I'm a little confused about it. So the Ai will pick up the name of a character for multiple different entities (the same character multiple times, places, etc.) and when I link them to the same character, that character profile is just on there 3+ times. Is there a way to teach the Ai that the "different" entities that it is picking up, is actually a single character (and that the nicknames of those characters are still for the same characters)? <– I hope that sentence makes sense.
I get what you mean and I have the same problems sometimes. Unfortunately, Named Entity Recognition is a notoriously hard problem to get correct in programming since names can be so ambiguous (especially in fictional worlds where anything is on the table!). We use IBM's Watson AI library for this right now which has some problems recognizing characters, but I've layered some code on top to try to catch some of the shortcomings – but there's definitely still room for improvements. I've got some code planned to hopefully help specifically with merging multiple detected characters together, but a nice side-effect of the AI is that the system itself will also improve as more people use it.
Also, does the Ai combine the linked character profiles across documents? This if possible, would be helpful to see how our characters are seen across their arcs. And can these entity analysis be shown on the character profiles. It would be awesome if I could just go to my character and see that they are generally angry& joyful etc.
The AI does indeed link character profiles across documents, so this would be a really cool feature to add. I hadn't thought of that; thank you for the idea!
And lastly, for those of us who write in first person, I would be awesome to link I / the voice of the narrator as an entity that could be linked to a character profile.
This has a lot of the same problems as differentiating characters above (because it's hard to differentiate a narrator's tone from the rest of the prose), but it's also something I'd like to add – it's just very difficult to get correct!
@andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), Thanks so much for your response! Good luck on your coding, its unlike anything else out there (and complete wizardry to me.) I can't wait to see how it/Watson IBM grow with time!
