Characters form the core of many computational analyses, from inferring prototypical character types (Bamman et al., 2014) to identifying the structure of social networks in literature <cite>(Elson et al., 2010</cite>; Lee and Yeung, 2012; Agarwal et al., 2013; Ardanuy and Sporleder, 2014; Jayannavar et al., 2015) .