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and new reading methods and research needs of narrative texts, including strategic reading and
distant reading, have emerged. In order to fully meet this demand, structuring, semanticizing and
standardizing narrative text content and constructing narrative text data infrastructure adapted to
the digital humanities research paradigm have gradually become the key to future work.
As a special type of text, the complexity of narrative text lies in its emphasis on events as the
basic component and the core structure. Events and plots all have abundant correlations. Therefore,
narrative texts are dynamic and complex. This brings challenges to the full expression of narrative
text features, the description of narrative structure, and the realization of semantic structured
representation for narrative text.
In order to solve the problem, this study started from the basic theory of narratology, summarizes
and collates the related statements about events, plots and narratives. Firstly, the characteristics of
narrative texts were summarized, and an event knowledge representation scheme for narrative texts
was proposed. Followed by the definition of plot, the ontology EBPO (Event Based Plot Ontology,
EBPO) was designed and developed. The ontology defines 10 classes and 29 properties, which can
express plots and events more clearly. Based on this ontology, a general process of deep semantic
annotation oriented to the characteristics of narrative texts was proposed, and a preliminary deep
semantic annotation experiment was carried out. In the semantic annotation experiment, five
classical novel fragments were selected, such as Pride and Prejudice, Moon and Sixpence, Living,
and so on. Natural language processing tool GATE 8.5.1 was used for annotating. With the results
of semantic annotation, this paper proposed a hierarchical-network model for narrative texts. Taking
Pride and Prejudice, Moon and Sixpence as examples, the annotation results were reorganized and
correlated, and the semantic structured representation of narrative texts was realized.
The results show that the semantic structured representation of narrative text based on plot
ontology can achieve more accurate definition on the events and plots. Bases on EBPO ontology
and annotation ontology, the large-scale, high-quality, rich semantic narrative text corpus could be
built, so the machine-aided event retrieval and reading methods including plot review, character
relationship overview, plot development path can be realized. Future research will focus on the
definition of plot, narrative mode, narrative style and other issues in order to achieve more accurate
content representation of narrative text.

Periodization of the history of library science education in China
XIE Huan〇
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Taking the establishment of Boone Library School in 1920 as the symbol of the birth of China’s
modern library science education, China’s library science education has gone through nearly a

* Correspondence should be addressed to XIE Huan, Email: weizhaizhuren@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-3883-2382.