The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues

Jiang, Yuru; Xu, Yang; Zhan, Yuhang; He, Weikai; Wang, Yilin; Xi, Zixuan; Wang, Meiyun; Li, Xinyu; Li, Yu; Yu, Yanchao

Abstract

We describe a new freely available Chinese multi-party dialogue dataset for automatic extraction of dialogue-based character relationships. The data has been extracted from the original TV scripts of a Chinese sitcom called “I Love My Home” with complex family-based human daily spoken conversations in Chinese. First, we introduced human annotation scheme for both global Character relationship map and character reference relationship. And then we generated the dialogue-based character relationship triples. The corpus annotates relationships between 140 entities in total. We also carried out a data exploration experiment by deploying a BERT-based model to extract character relationships on the CRECIL corpus and another existing relation extraction corpus (DialogRE (CITATION)).The results demonstrate that extracting character relationships is more challenging in CRECIL than in DialogRE.

Citation

Jiang, Y., Xu, Y., Zhan, Y., He, W., Wang, Y., Xi, Z., Wang, M., Li, X., Li, Y., & Yu, Y. (2022, June). The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues. Presented at Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
• Start Date: Jun 20, 2022
• End Date: Jun 25, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Jun 27, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 27, 2023
• Pages: 2337-2344
• Book Title: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
• Publisher URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.250