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title = "{L}3{IRIT} at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 4: Learning Narrative Similarity from Aligned Film Plot Summaries",
author = "Hamdi, Ahmed and
Boros, Emanuela and
Moreno, Jose G. and
Jatowt, Adam and
Bordea, Georgeta and
Gonz{\'a}lez-Gallardo, Carlos-Emiliano and
Doucet, Antoine",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "1853--1859",
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abstract = "This paper presents the participation of the L3IRIT team in SemEval Task 4.The team is a joint research group working on narrative extraction from historical text, led by the IRIT laboratory (University of Toulouse) and the L3i laboratory (University of La Rochelle). Our participation is grounded in the construction of a novel bilingual resource extracted from Wikipedia by automatically aligning film plots. Leveraging this dataset, we train embedding models using contrastive learning objectives to capture higher-level narrative structures more effectively. The resulting resource goes beyond surface-level lexical overlap, providing supervision for narrative similarity without manual annotation. In addition, we introduce a named-entity masking strategy designed to promote narrative abstraction and reduce superficial entity-based matching. Overall, our approach aims to support representation learning that captures structural and event-level similarities across stories in different languages more effectively.Our system ranked in 24 of the 44 scoreboards for Task A and 20 of the 27 scoreboards for Task B, achieving accuracies of 65.75 and 61.00, respectively."
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%A Hamdi, Ahmed
%A Boros, Emanuela
%A Moreno, Jose G.
%A Jatowt, Adam
%A Bordea, Georgeta
%A González-Gallardo, Carlos-Emiliano
%A Doucet, Antoine
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%P 1853-1859
Markdown (Informal)
[L3IRIT at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Learning Narrative Similarity from Aligned Film Plot Summaries](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.234/) (Hamdi et al., SemEval 2026)
ACL
- Ahmed Hamdi, Emanuela Boros, Jose G. Moreno, Adam Jatowt, Georgeta Bordea, Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo, and Antoine Doucet. 2026. L3IRIT at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Learning Narrative Similarity from Aligned Film Plot Summaries. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 1853–1859, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.