Speaker Naming in Movies

Mahmoud Azab, Mingzhe Wang, Max Smith, Noriyuki Kojima, Jia Deng, Rada Mihalcea


Abstract
We propose a new model for speaker naming in movies that leverages visual, textual, and acoustic modalities in an unified optimization framework. To evaluate the performance of our model, we introduce a new dataset consisting of six episodes of the Big Bang Theory TV show and eighteen full movies covering different genres. Our experiments show that our multimodal model significantly outperforms several competitive baselines on the average weighted F-score metric. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework, we design an end-to-end memory network model that leverages our speaker naming model and achieves state-of-the-art results on the subtitles task of the MovieQA 2017 Challenge.
Anthology ID:
N18-1200
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2206–2216
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1200
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1200
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Cite (ACL):
Mahmoud Azab, Mingzhe Wang, Max Smith, Noriyuki Kojima, Jia Deng, and Rada Mihalcea. 2018. Speaker Naming in Movies. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 2206–2216, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Speaker Naming in Movies (Azab et al., NAACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1200.pdf
Data
MovieQA