2022 NAACL NAACL 2022

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

Abstract

AbstractThis 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.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — zero-shot question-answering
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio