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S2tory framework uses narratology to distill movie script summaries

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Researchers have developed a new framework called S^2tory for summarizing movie scripts, addressing the challenge of their non-linear narrative structures. This approach uses a narratology-grounded method to identify essential plot points by analyzing character development. The system, which includes a Narrative Expert Agent (NEAgent), distills this knowledge to train a model for generating summaries with high semantic fidelity and compression. AI

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S2tory framework uses narratology to distill movie script summaries

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mingzhe Lu, Yanbing Liu, Qihao Wang, Jiarui Zhang, Jiayue Wu, Yue Hu, Yunpeng Li, Yangyan Xu ·

    S^2tory: Story Spine Distillation for Movie Script Summarization

    arXiv:2605.03244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Movie scripts pose a fundamental challenge for automatic summarization due to their non-linear, cross-cut narrative structure, which makes surface-level saliency methods ineffective at preserving core story progression. To address t…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yangyan Xu ·

    S^2tory: Story Spine Distillation for Movie Script Summarization

    Movie scripts pose a fundamental challenge for automatic summarization due to their non-linear, cross-cut narrative structure, which makes surface-level saliency methods ineffective at preserving core story progression. To address this, we introduce S^2tory (Story Spine Distillat…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    S^2tory: Story Spine Distillation for Movie Script Summarization

    Movie scripts pose a fundamental challenge for automatic summarization due to their non-linear, cross-cut narrative structure, which makes surface-level saliency methods ineffective at preserving core story progression. To address this, we introduce S^2tory (Story Spine Distillat…

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