@inproceedings{chitale-etal-2025-discograms,
    title = "{D}isco{G}ra{MS}: Enhancing Movie Screen-Play Summarization using Movie Character-Aware Discourse Graph",
    author = "Chitale, Maitreya Prafulla  and
      Bindal, Uday  and
      Rajkumar, Rajakrishnan P  and
      Mishra, Rahul",
    editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-Pages-WenzhengZhang-ZhengyanShi-ShuYang/2025.naacl-short.80/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.80",
    pages = "954--965",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-190-2",
    abstract = "Summarizing movie screenplays presents a unique set of challenges compared to standard document summarization. Screenplays are not only lengthy, but also feature a complex interplay of characters, dialogues, and scenes, with numerous direct and subtle relationships and contextual nuances that are difficult for machine learning models to accurately capture and comprehend. Recent attempts at screenplay summarization focus on fine-tuning transformer-based pre-trained models, but these models often fall short in capturing long-term dependencies and latent relationships, and frequently encounter the ``lost in the middle'' issue. To address these challenges, we introduce DiscoGraMS, a novel resource that represents movie scripts as a movie character-aware discourse graph (CaD Graph). This approach is well-suited for various downstream tasks, such as summarization, question-answering, and salience detection. The model aims to preserve all salient information, offering a more comprehensive and faithful representation of the screenplay{'}s content. We further explore a baseline method that combines the CaD Graph with the corresponding movie script through a late fusion of graph and text modalities, and we present very initial promising results. We have made our code and dataset publicly available."
}