<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="bold">2) Determine sentences containing DS with high probability:</hi> After the sections have been introduced, each sentence is classified as either “directspeech” or “other”. The algorithm utilizes a scoring mechanism with manually defined features (e.g. imperative mode, interjections, tempus shift). These features (as well as their weights) were created by inspecting parts of the DROC corpus. They are optimized to identify DS with high precision. The intuition of this pass is that all sentences which are rather “obvious” (at least to the human reader) are now correctly marked as DS.