Abstract
This work presents the task of Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping, which focuses on the spatial dimension of narratives. The task consists of two parts: (1) creating a “map” with all the locations mentioned in a set of texts, and (2) extracting a trajectory from a single testimony and positioning it within the map. Following recent advances in context length capabilities of large language models, we propose a pipeline for this task in a completely unsupervised manner, without the requirement of any type of labels. We demonstrate the pipeline on a set of ≈ 75 testimonies and present the resulting map and samples of the trajectory. We conclude that current long-range models succeed in generating meaningful maps and trajectories. Other than the visualization and indexing, we propose future directions for adaptation of the task as a step for dividing testimony sets into clusters and for alignment between parallel parts of different testimonies.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.htres-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Isuri Anuradha, Martin Wynne, Francesca Frontini, Alistair Plum
- Venues:
- htres | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 63–70
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.htres-1.9
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, and Omri Abend. 2024. Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 63–70, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies (Wagner et al., htres-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2024.htres-1.9.pdf