Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks

Heng Wang, Wenqian Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo


Abstract
Online movie review platforms are providing crowdsourced feedback for the film industry and the general public, while spoiler reviews greatly compromise user experience. Although preliminary research efforts were made to automatically identify spoilers, they merely focus on the review content itself, while robust spoiler detection requires putting the review into the context of facts and knowledge regarding movies, user behavior on film review platforms, and more. In light of these challenges, we first curate a large-scale network-based spoiler detection dataset LCS and a comprehensive and up-to-date movie knowledge base UKM. We then propose MVSD, a novel spoiler detection model that takes into account the external knowledge about movies and user activities on movie review platforms. Specifically, MVSD constructs three interconnecting heterogeneous information networks to model diverse data sources and their multi-view attributes, while we design and employ a novel heterogeneous graph neural network architecture for spoiler detection as node-level classification. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MVSD advances the state-of-the-art on two spoiler detection datasets, while the introduction of external knowledge and user interactions help ground robust spoiler detection.
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2023.emnlp-main.995
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
Year:
2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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16035–16050
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.995
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.995
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Heng Wang, Wenqian Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Qinghua Zheng, and Minnan Luo. 2023. Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 16035–16050, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks (Wang et al., EMNLP 2023)
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