Multi-view Story Characterization from Movie Plot Synopses and Reviews

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Abstract

This paper considers the problem of characterizing stories by inferring properties like theme and style using written synopses and reviews of movies. We experiment with a multi-label dataset of movie synopses and a tagset representing various attributes of stories (e.g., genre, events). Our proposed multi-view model encodes the synopses and reviews using hierarchical attention and shows improvement over methods that only use synopses. Finally, we demonstrate how we can take advantage of such a model to extract a complementary set of story-attributes from reviews without any direct supervision. 

 

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