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title = "Modeling Event Salience in Narratives via Barthes{'} Cardinal Functions",
author = "Otake, Takaki and
Yokoi, Sho and
Inoue, Naoya and
Takahashi, Ryo and
Kuribayashi, Tatsuki and
Inui, Kentaro",
editor = "Scott, Donia and
Bel, Nuria and
Zong, Chengqing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.160",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.160",
pages = "1784--1794",
abstract = "Events in a narrative differ in salience: some are more important to the story than others. Estimating event salience is useful for tasks such as story generation, and as a tool for text analysis in narratology and folkloristics. To compute event salience without any annotations, we adopt Barthes{'} definition of event salience and propose several unsupervised methods that require only a pre-trained language model. Evaluating the proposed methods on folktales with event salience annotation, we show that the proposed methods outperform baseline methods and find fine-tuning a language model on narrative texts is a key factor in improving the proposed methods.",
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%T Modeling Event Salience in Narratives via Barthes’ Cardinal Functions
%A Otake, Takaki
%A Yokoi, Sho
%A Inoue, Naoya
%A Takahashi, Ryo
%A Kuribayashi, Tatsuki
%A Inui, Kentaro
%Y Scott, Donia
%Y Bel, Nuria
%Y Zong, Chengqing
%S Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 December
%I International Committee on Computational Linguistics
%C Barcelona, Spain (Online)
%F otake-etal-2020-modeling
%X Events in a narrative differ in salience: some are more important to the story than others. Estimating event salience is useful for tasks such as story generation, and as a tool for text analysis in narratology and folkloristics. To compute event salience without any annotations, we adopt Barthes’ definition of event salience and propose several unsupervised methods that require only a pre-trained language model. Evaluating the proposed methods on folktales with event salience annotation, we show that the proposed methods outperform baseline methods and find fine-tuning a language model on narrative texts is a key factor in improving the proposed methods.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.160
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.160
%P 1784-1794
Markdown (Informal)
[Modeling Event Salience in Narratives via Barthes’ Cardinal Functions](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.160) (Otake et al., COLING 2020)
ACL
- Takaki Otake, Sho Yokoi, Naoya Inoue, Ryo Takahashi, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, and Kentaro Inui. 2020. Modeling Event Salience in Narratives via Barthes’ Cardinal Functions. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1784–1794, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.