Abstract
Automatically understanding the plot of novels is important both for informing literary scholarship and applications such as summarization or recommendation. Various models have addressed this task, but their evaluation has remained largely intrinsic and qualitative. Here, we propose a principled and scalable framework leveraging expert-provided semantic tags (e.g., mystery, pirates) to evaluate plot representations in an extrinsic fashion, assessing their ability to produce locally coherent groupings of novels (micro-clusters) in model space. We present a deep recurrent autoencoder model that learns richly structured multi-view plot representations, and show that they i) yield better micro-clusters than less structured representations; and ii) are interpretable, and thus useful for further literary analysis or labeling of the emerging micro-clusters.- Anthology ID:
- D17-1200
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1873–1883
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D17-1200
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D17-1200
- Cite (ACL):
- Lea Frermann and György Szarvas. 2017. Inducing Semantic Micro-Clusters from Deep Multi-View Representations of Novels. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1873–1883, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Inducing Semantic Micro-Clusters from Deep Multi-View Representations of Novels (Frermann & Szarvas, EMNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/D17-1200.pdf
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