CHATTER: A Character Attribution Dataset for Narrative Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05227v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:37:30 GMT
• Title: CHATTER: A Character Attribution Dataset for Narrative Understanding
• Authors: Sabyasachee Baruah, Shrikanth Narayanan,
• Abstract summary: We validate a subset of Chatter, called ChatterEval, using human annotations to serve as an evaluation benchmark for the character attribution task in movie scripts. ChatterEval assesses narrative understanding and the long-context modeling capacity of language models.
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• Abstract: Computational narrative understanding studies the identification, description, and interaction of the elements of a narrative: characters, attributes, events, and relations. Narrative research has given considerable attention to defining and classifying character types. However, these character-type taxonomies do not generalize well because they are small, too simple, or specific to a domain. We require robust and reliable benchmarks to test whether narrative models truly understand the nuances of the character's development in the story. Our work addresses this by curating the Chatter dataset that labels whether a character portrays some attribute for 88148 character-attribute pairs, encompassing 2998 characters, 13324 attributes and 660 movies. We validate a subset of Chatter, called ChatterEval, using human annotations to serve as an evaluation benchmark for the character attribution task in movie scripts. ChatterEval assesses narrative understanding and the long-context modeling capacity of language models.

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