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From None to Severe: Predicting Severity in Movie Scripts

20 Sep 2021Findings (EMNLP) 2021 11arXiv:2109.09276archive 2025-07-28

Yigeng Zhang, Mahsa Shafaei, Fabio Gonzalez, Thamar Solorio

In this paper, we introduce the task of predicting severity of age-restricted aspects of movie content based solely on the dialogue script. We first investigate categorizing the ordinal severity of movies on 5 aspects: Sex, Violence, Profanity, Substance consumption, and Frightening scenes. The problem is handled using a siamese network-based multitask framework which concurrently improves the interpretability of the predictions. The experimental results show that our method outperforms the previous state-of-the-art model and provides useful information to interpret model predictions. The proposed dataset and source code are publicly available at our GitHub repository.

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