Finding the Storyteller: Automatic Spoiler Tagging using Linguistic Cues

Given a movie comment, does it contain a spoiler? A spoiler is a comment that, when disclosed, would ruin a surprise or reveal an important plot detail. We study automatic methods to detect comments and reviews that contain spoilers and apply them to reviews from the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) website. We develop topic models, based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), but using linguistic dependency information in place of simple features from bag of words (BOW) representations. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique over four movie-comment datasets of different scales.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Sheng Guo, Naren Ramakrishnan
• Keywords: COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Internet Movie Database, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Linguistic Dependency Information