Exploiting Structure and Conventions of Movie Scripts for Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Arnav Jhala

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4

Exploiting Structure and Conventions of Movie Scripts for Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Arnav Jhala

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Abstract

Movie scripts are documents that describe the story, stage direction for actors and camera, and dialogue. Script writers, directors, and cinematographers have standardized the format and language that is used in script writing. Scripts contain a wealth of information about narrative patterns, character direction, blocking, and camera control that can be extracted for various applications in interactive storytelling. In this short paper, we propose the creation of an
automatically annotated corpus of movie scripts and describe our initial efforts in automating script annotation. We first describe the parts of a movie script that can be automatically annotated and then describe the use of an existing language processing toolkit to automatically annotate specific parts of a movie script.

Original language	English
Book series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to)	210-213
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0302-9743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 - Erfurt, Germany Duration: 26 Nov 2008 → 29 Nov 2008 Conference number: 1

Conference

Conference	First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008
Number	1
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Erfurt
Period	26/11/2008 → 29/11/2008

Keywords

Movie Scripts
Script Annotation
Narrative Patterns
Language Processing Toolkit
Interactive Storytelling

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10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4

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