%0 Journal Article %A Bamman, David %A O'Connor, Brendan %A A. Smith, Noah %D 2014 %T Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters %U https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Learning_Latent_Personas_of_Film_Characters/6473477 %R 10.1184/R1/6473477.v1 %2 https://kilthub.cmu.edu/ndownloader/files/11903081 %K Language Technologies %X

We present two latent variable models for learning character types, or personas, in film, in which a persona is defined as a set of mixtures over latent lexical classes. These lexical classes capture the stereotypical actions of which a character is the agent and patient, as well as attributes by which they are described. As the first attempt to solve this problem explicitly, we also present a new dataset for the text-driven analysis of film, along with a benchmark testbed to help drive future work in this area.

%I Carnegie Mellon University