Speaker Naming in Movies
Table 7: Performance comparison for the subtitles task on the MovieQA 2017 Challenge on both validation and test sets. We compare our models with the best existing models (from the challenge leaderboard).
['Method', 'Subtitles val', 'Subtitles test']
Furthermore, to measure the effectiveness of adding the speaker names and masking, we test our model after removing the names from the network (C-MemN2N). The results suggest that our speaker naming helps the model better distinguish between characters, and that prepending the speaker names to the subtitle segments improves the ability of the memory network to correctly identify the supporting facts from the story that answers a given question.