Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data

Dominik Stammbach, Maria Antoniak, Elliott Ash


Abstract
This paper shows how to use large-scale pretrained language models to extract character roles from narrative texts without domain-specific training data. Queried with a zero-shot question-answering prompt, GPT-3 can identify the hero, villain, and victim in diverse domains: newspaper articles, movie plot summaries, and political speeches.
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2022.wnu-1.6
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop of Narrative Understanding (WNU2022)
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July
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2022
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Seattle, United States
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Elizabeth Clark, Faeze Brahman, Mohit Iyyer
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WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–56
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.wnu-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.wnu-1.6
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Dominik Stammbach, Maria Antoniak, and Elliott Ash. 2022. Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop of Narrative Understanding (WNU2022), pages 47–56, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data (Stammbach et al., WNU 2022)
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