Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies

Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend


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.
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2024.htres-1.9
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Isuri Anuradha, Martin Wynne, Francesca Frontini, Alistair Plum
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htres | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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63–70
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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.
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