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arxiv:2408.06281

MovieSum: An Abstractive Summarization Dataset for Movie Screenplays

Published on Aug 12
· Submitted by rohitsaxena on Aug 14

Abstract

Movie screenplay summarization is challenging, as it requires an understanding of long input contexts and various elements unique to movies. Large language models have shown significant advancements in document summarization, but they often struggle with processing long input contexts. Furthermore, while television transcripts have received attention in recent studies, movie screenplay summarization remains underexplored. To stimulate research in this area, we present a new dataset, MovieSum, for abstractive summarization of movie screenplays. This dataset comprises 2200 movie screenplays accompanied by their Wikipedia plot summaries. We manually formatted the movie screenplays to represent their structural elements. Compared to existing datasets, MovieSum possesses several distinctive features: (1) It includes movie screenplays, which are longer than scripts of TV episodes. (2) It is twice the size of previous movie screenplay datasets. (3) It provides metadata with IMDb IDs to facilitate access to additional external knowledge. We also show the results of recently released large language models applied to summarization on our dataset to provide a detailed baseline.

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We propose a new dataset: MovieSum, which consists of 2,200 movie screenplays and their corresponding Wikipedia summaries.
It is a long-form summarization task where the mean length of movie screenplays is approximately 34K.
We manually formatted the movie screenplays to represent their structural elements. We also provide the IMDB ID for each movie to facilitate the collection of additional metadata.

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