arXiv:2412.04576cs.CLcs.AI2024-12被引 3

用大模型挖掘小说中隐含的人物刻画,更准且更懂上下文。

Show, Don't Tell: Uncovering Implicit Character Portrayal using LLMs

  • 用大模型分析人物行为而非直接描述,捕捉隐性角色特征。
  • 在多角色场景下表现更稳定,能利用完整叙事上下文提升准确率。
  • 发现公平性与准确性存在权衡,但整体优于传统方法。

分析小说中人物刻画的工具对作家和文学学者具有重要价值。现有工具主要依赖人物属性的显式文本线索,但人物刻画常通过行为与动作隐含呈现。为此,我们利用大语言模型(LLMs)揭示隐性人物刻画。首先,构建了一个跨主题相似度更高、词汇多样性更强、叙事长度更长的数据集,优于TinyStories和WritingPrompts等现有语料库。随后提出LIIPA(LLMs for Inferring Implicit Portrayal for Character Analysis)框架,通过不同中间计算方式(如角色属性词表、思维链)提示LLM推断人物刻画。实验表明,LIIPA优于现有方法,且在角色数量增加时更具鲁棒性,因其可利用完整叙事上下文。最后,我们研究了刻画估计对人物人口统计特征的敏感性,发现方法间存在公平性-准确性权衡——这在算法公平性领域已知。尽管如此,所有LIIPA变体在公平性和准确性上均持续优于非LLM基线。本工作展示了使用LLMs分析复杂人物的潜力,以及识别叙事文本中隐性刻画偏见的可能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Tools for analyzing character portrayal in fiction are valuable for writers and literary scholars in developing and interpreting compelling stories. Existing tools, such as visualization tools for analyzing fictional characters, primarily rely on explicit textual indicators of character attributes. However, portrayal is often implicit, revealed through actions and behaviors rather than explicit statements. We address this gap by leveraging large language models (LLMs) to uncover implicit character portrayals. We start by generating a dataset for this task with greater cross-topic similarity, lexical diversity, and narrative lengths than existing narrative text corpora such as TinyStories and WritingPrompts. We then introduce LIIPA (LLMs for Inferring Implicit Portrayal for Character Analysis), a framework for prompting LLMs to uncover character portrayals. LIIPA can be configured to use various types of intermediate computation (character attribute word lists, chain-of-thought) to infer how fictional characters are portrayed in the source text. We find that LIIPA outperforms existing approaches, and is more robust to increasing character counts (number of unique persons depicted) due to its ability to utilize full narrative context. Lastly, we investigate the sensitivity of portrayal estimates to character demographics, identifying a fairness-accuracy tradeoff among methods in our LIIPA framework -- a phenomenon familiar within the algorithmic fairness literature. Despite this tradeoff, all LIIPA variants consistently outperform non-LLM baselines in both fairness and accuracy. Our work demonstrates the potential benefits of using LLMs to analyze complex characters and to better understand how implicit portrayal biases may manifest in narrative texts.

人物刻画大模型隐性分析

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